Betulaceae Alnus rubra Bong.

Red Alder

Kwakiutl - Drug, Tuberculosis Remedy

Use documented by:
Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1973, The Ethnobotany of the Southern Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, Economic Botany 27:257-310, page 279

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Scientific name: Alnus rubra Bong.
USDA symbol: ALRU2 (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Red Alder
Family: Betulaceae
Family (APG): Betulaceae
Native American Tribe: Kwakiutl
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Tuberculosis Remedy
Notes: Infusion of bark taken or bark held in women's mouth for tuberculosis.

RECRD: 80948 id: 2524

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