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...film opens with scenes of several of Iree's sons gathering moss and bloodroot and selling ginseng. The herbs are their only means of supporting themselves, aside from welfare payments...

Author: By Benjamin P. Solomon-schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: RFK Daughter Screens New Film on Rural Poor | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

...Swimming Schedule February 18 at Penn February 25 YALE March 2-4 Easterns at Bloodroot Pool...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Berkoff Breaks American, NCAA Record | 2/12/1989 | See Source »

...also beyond numbering, but include traditional notables like hot toddy, hot lemonade, chicken broth, regional potions like the South's horehound and pine-needle tea, and ethnic preparations featuring ingredients like honey, garlic and cayenne. Faith is widespread in the anticold potency of herbs like eucalyptus, mullein leaves, bloodroot and red clover. California Herb Specialist Michael Tierra commends a concoction of honeysuckle, chrysanthemum and licorice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Secret Life of the Common Cold | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...Stammer remembered a "cancer salve" that another patient had given him. He said he had been informed that it contained zinc sulfate, galanga (a Chinese spice), bloodroot and ordinary lanolin. Dr. Stammer, no cancer specialist, had not analyzed the salve. He did not know what effect it would have, but he tried it out on himself to make sure it was harmless. Since her cancer seemed incurable, the patient agreed to give the salve a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mysterious Salve | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with bloodroot an easy first. Red clover chopped fine, a diet of snails and mud baths have their advocates. Lord Atholstan is the first Canadian-born peer to be raised to the House of Lords for services to the Empire. He is a self-made man who joined the staff of the Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Great Enigma | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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