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Pontederia cordata L.
Pickerelweed
USDA POCO14 		Malecite Drug, Contraceptive
Infusion of plant used to prevent pregnancy.
Mechling, W.H., 1959, The Malecite Indians With Notes on the Micmacs, Anthropologica 8:239-263, page 259
Pontederia cordata L.
Pickerelweed
USDA POCO14 		Micmac Drug, Contraceptive
Herbs used to prevent pregnancy.
Chandler, R. Frank, Lois Freeman and Shirley N. Hooper, 1979, Herbal Remedies of the Maritime Indians, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 1:49-68, page 59
Pontederia cordata L.
Pickerelweed
USDA POCO14 		Montagnais Drug, Panacea
'Brew' from plant used for 'illness in general.'
Speck, Frank G., 1917, Medicine Practices of the Northeastern Algonquians, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Americanists Pp. 303-321, page 315