Chippewa Sore Throat Gargles: Calamus, Chokecherry Bark, Prickly Ash Root and Slippery Elm (Densmore, 1928)

Four rows of her table under "Sore throat". She gives no amounts. Recorded use, not medical advice.

Make a decoction of the root for children to gargle; adults chewed the root instead.

Boil the inner bark and gargle the decoction. It "is said to be very astringent."

Boil the root; the decoction was drunk and also gargled, for quinsy and a swelled or ulcerated throat.

Gargle a decoction of the bark, or dry the root and chew it.

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. She lists six more sore-throat plants not used here. Amounts and safety lines are ours. Recorded use, not medical advice.