Cupressaceae Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach

Alaska Cedar

Kwakiutl, Southern - Drug, Antirheumatic (External)

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 261

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Scientific name: Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach
USDA symbol: CHNO (View details at USDA PLANTS site)
Common names: Alaska Cedar
Family: Cupressaceae
Family (APG): Cupressaceae
Native American Tribe: Kwakiutl, Southern
Use category: Drug
Use sub-category: Antirheumatic (External)
Notes: Branches placed on top of burning sea wrack as part of a steam treatment for rheumatism.

RECRD: 46926 id: 9111

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