| Reference Source | Reference Type | Archival Data | Comments |
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| Lamb, E.W., Shultz, L.W. 1964 | No Reference Specified | "Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) was also used as a remedy for aches and sluggishness much as our vitamin pills at the present time--not quite so costly, however". |
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| Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 | No Reference Specified | "winaxkátwi spicebush, known in the south west as spicewood, a shrub with yellow flowers, tree is four feet high". |
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| Gatschet, A.S. ca. 1895 | No Reference Specified | The stems of spicebush were used to make tea. "The Indians cut the stems into sticks or small pieces pour hot water over them and drink the infusion as spicewood tea". |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | No Reference Specified | Used in tea as a tonic. "My mother used to use it, besides making spicebush tea, she used it to parboil older game like an old 'coon or an old woodchuck. To parboil 'em in it, it tenderized 'em. Or at least we thought it did." |
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| Olds, J., Olds, D. and D. Tippman 1999 | No Reference Specified | Spicebush root tea was used "for everything you know". |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | No Reference Specified | "Spicebush is a small bush that grows about six feet tall . . . It has a red berry on it in the fall of the year and in the spring it has a small yellow-clustered bloom. It’s a blackish-looking plant--shrub--and it has an aromic smell to it. You break off a piece of it and chew on it, or just smell it, it has a real spicy smell to it. Decidedly spice". |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | No Reference Specified | Fruits were gathered and dried for seasonsing. Young leaves used for tea. |
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| Gonella, M.P 2003-2006 | No Reference Specified | Pick berries when they are red in fall. |
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| Rafert, S. 1989 | No Reference Specified | "They [the Myaamia] took to coffee like a duck to water when it became introduced to them. But in their earlier days, their primitive days, they didn't know coffee. The only drink they had of that type would have been sassafras or spicebush". |
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| Dunn, J.P. ca. 1900 | No Reference Specified | Tea was made using spicebush. |
| Reference Source | Reference Type | Data | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gleason, H.A. and Cronquist, A. 1991 | Habitat | Occurs in moist, rich woods in eastern and western Myaamia lands. |