Chippewa Cough Remedies: Giant Hyssop, Spikenard, Burdock Leaf and New Jersey Tea Root (Densmore, 1928)

Four rows of her table under "Cough". Amounts are given only for burdock and New Jersey tea. Recorded use, not medical advice.

Steep the root and drink it. Used for an internal cold with a tendency to pneumonia, also for pain in the chest.

Boil the root and drink the decoction (amounts not given). She also lists spikenard for boils and fractures.

Pour a teacup of boiling water on a handful of leaves. Taken for a hard dry cough, after a coughing spell.

Grate 5 inches (13 cm) of root and boil it in 1 quart (0.95 L) of water. The dose is one swallow.

From Frances Densmore, *Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians*, **44th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology** (1928), pp. 340-341 (checked on the archive.org scan usesofplantsbych00dens). Chippewa remedies were mostly Midewiwin knowledge, shared so a record would survive. Left out: a dogbane snuff (toxic plant) and a cough syrup whose other ingredients she was not told. Metric and safety lines are ours. Recorded use, not medical advice.