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Rosa sp., Wild Rose 
Bella Coola: Roots and branches boiled, and the decoction taken 
internally, even ten cupfuls a day if desired, as a purgative for pain 
in the stomach. 
Southern Carrier: Not used. 
Northern Carrier: See scrub pine, page 49. 
Sikani: Roots crushed, steeped in water, and the decoction used 
as an eye-wash. 
Gitksan: Not used. 
Physocarpus opulifolius (L.), Maxim., Nine-Bark 
Bella Coola: Inner bark boiled for two hours, and two to four 
cupfuls of the decoction at blood heat taken internally as an emetic 
for persons dizzy with pain. Four or five cupfuls of lukewarm water 
then taken as a cleansing emetic and repeated about five times. 
Inner bark boiled a long time (when it ceased to have emetic 
properties), one cupful of the hot decoction taken internally, and 
thereafter applied externally as a wash twice a day for gonorrhoea 
and scrofulous glands in the neck. Said to be a laxative that caused 
the glands to break, discharge fully, and heal. A cupful taken intern- 
ally daily in advanced cases. 
Southern Carrier: Bark (gathered near the coast) boiled for two 
hours, and two cupfuls of the decoction taken as an emetic, or one 
cupful as a purgative. Said to act in half an hour, and to be an excel- 
lent remedy, but fatal in too large a dose. 
Aruncus Sylvester Kost., Goat’s Beard 
Bella Coola: Roots boiled, and one or two cupfuls of the decoction 
(or as much as desired) taken internally for pain in the stomach and 
gonorrhoea. A diuretic, but neither a laxative nor an emetic. 
Roots boiled in grease of mountain goat {Oreamnos montanus 
Ord.) for a day and the decoction taken internally for smallpox. 
Southern Carrier: Not used. 
Gitksan: Not used. 
Geum macrophyllum Willd., Large-Leaved Yellow Avens 
Bella Coola: Roots boiled, and decoction taken internally for 
pain in the stomach, but not for diarrhoea, or vomiting. Leaves, 
usually chewed but sometimes bruised, applied to boils. 
Southern Carrier: Leaves boiled and the decoction taken internally 
for any sickness. 
Leaves boiled and applied to bruises. 
Pyrus sitchensis (Roem.) Piper., Mountain Ash 
Bella Coola : Bark of the roots, and sometimes the inner bark of 
the stem, collected at any time of the year, boiled for an hour, and the 
hot decoction, weak or strong, preferably the latter, taken internally 
for the stomach or rheumatism. Said to effect a cure in from one to 
seven days. Not taken for diarrhoea, or vomiting; and for rheuma- 
tism sometimes poured into a large box and used as a bath. Used 
also as an eye-wash. 
Southern Carrier: Bark chewed for colds. 
Gitksan: Fresh fruit crushed and eaten raw as a strong purgative. 
