Teas made from common herbs and roots

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From: Source:Campbell, 1921


A list of teas given by an old man experienced in their use included:

wild cherry,
black cohosh,
black and white walnut,
slippery elm (white better than red),
Indian hemp,
bitter-sweet,
yellow sarsaparilla,
pink-root,
yellow dock,
boneset,
white horse-mint,
spignet,
pennyroyal,
Seneca snake-root,
black snake-root,
Samson's

snake-root,

Indian turnip,
ginseng,
yellow lady's slipper,
"lin" (linden) bark and root,
Solomon's seal, and
lobelia.