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Ripe cones boiled, and the decoction taken internally for a pain. 
Neither an emetic nor a laxative. A bed consisting of a sack of ripe 
cones, placed on top of hot stones, used by rheumatics. Cones also 
burned to fumigate rheumatics. 
A piece of the bark 5 feet long by 2 feet wide used as a mat in a 
hot bath for rheumatism. Many stones were heated, a little sand 
strewn over them, the bark spread above with the inside uppermost, 
and the patient, naked, lay on the bark, covering himself with one or 
more blankets. A similar bed, but with the bark covered with a few 
leaves of devil's club ( Fatsia horrida Sm. B. and H.), used for chronic 
backache. 
Gum applied to small cuts, broken skin, and suppurating sores. 
Branches used to whip a burned arm or leg until the blood came. 
Gum boiled and taken internally while hot as a diuretic for 
gonorrhoea. 
See also scrub pine (page 49). 
For use with fern. See page 48. 
The buds or new shoots, with the gum sometimes found around 
the outside when they are about half an inch long, boiled in water, 
and the decoction taken internally for tuberculosis. 
Southern Carrier: New shoots and bark of small branches boiled 
for about two hours, and the decoction taken internally, one or two 
cupfuls at a time, for pain in the stomach, but not for vomiting, 
diarrhoea, or constipation. Said to effect a cure in one day, and 
preferred to the decoction made of scrub pine (page 49) or aspen 
(page 54). 
Gum from new shoots and small branches, scraped out with a 
little stick, placed in the eyes for snow-blindness. 
Sikani: Inside bark scraped and chewed for a cough. 
Needles chewed, and the saliva applied to external sores. 
Gum, obtained by splitting the tops, applied with a stick to 
white spots on the eye. 
The “flower" boiled and the decoction taken internally for pain 
in the chest. 
Gitksan: Gum extracted from the wood by boiling in water, 
added to eulachon oil, salmon oil, bear grease, ground-hog fat, lard, 
etc., and taken internally before meals for consumption. 
Twigs bearing both leaves and bark boiled with entire roots of 
soapolallie ( Shepherdia canadensis Nutt.); one cupful of the strong 
decoction taken internally three times a day for rheumatism. 
ARACEAE, ARUM FAMILY 
Lysichiton kamtschatcense Schott., Skunk Cabbage, Yellow Arum 
Bella Coola: Roots used with oil as a hair tonic. 
Roots boiled, and the sweet decoction taken internally for 
stomach trouble. 
See also white fir (page 50). 
Gitksan: Root well mashed with water and applied externally for 
blood poison and boils. Said to bring boils to a head. For use with 
a fern (see page 48). 
