Chippewa Remedies for Indigestion and Stomach Pain: Wild Ginger in the Cooking, Prairie Smoke with Alum Root, Arrowhead, Bluestem, Birch, Horseweed (Densmore, 1928)

Rows under "Indigestion" and "Pain in stomach". Recorded use, not medical advice.

"If food does not agree with a person, put about an inch of this root in whatever food is being cooked for him." It was also added to other herbs to increase their action.

Boil 4 prairie smoke roots and 1 alum root in 1 quart (0.95 L) of water. It was said to be very strong, so it was taken only occasionally; one preparation lasted 2 or 3 days. Prairie smoke root was also boiled alone.

Steep the root and drink it, used if a "person's food did not agree with them."

Boil 1 bluestem root in 1 quart of water; or make a decoction of birch bark (Betula nigra); or boil 2 horseweed roots and some leaves in 1 quart of water.

From Frances Densmore, *Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians*, **44th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology** (1928), pp. 342-343 (checked on the archive.org scan usesofplantsbych00dens). Chippewa remedies were mostly Midewiwin knowledge, shared so a record would survive. Left out: blue cohosh, lady's slipper and two remedies used only with unnamed other plants. Metric and safety lines are ours. Recorded use, not medical advice.