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The Spotted Wintergreen, or Pipsissewa (_C. maculata_), closely resembles the Prince's Pine, except that its slightly larger white or pinkish flowers lack the deep pink ring; and the lance-shaped leaves, with rather distant saw-teeth, are beautifully mottled with white along the veins.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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The Pipsissewa, or Winter Green (Chimaphila), is both an aromatic tonic and a diuretic, and therefore selected in the convalescence from low fevers followed by dropsical symptoms.
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Decoction -- Pipsissewa bruised, 1 oz.; water, 3 half pints; boil to 1 pint.
General directions for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : list and description of indigenous plants, etc., their medicinal properties, forms of administration, and doses, Confederate States of America. Surgeon General 1862
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"Thayer's Goldthread fur cankermouth, an 'Pipsissewa that cures fayver an' rheumatiz, too.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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"Sassafras, that makes tea for skin disease; Ginseng, that's good to sell; Bloodroot for the blood in springtime; Goldthread, that cures sore mouths; Pipsissewa for chills and fever; White-man's Foot, that springs up wherever a White-man treads; Indian cup, that grows where an Indian dies; Dandelion roots for coffee; Catnip tea for a cold;
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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