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Alligator Root
Volume 1, entries 1095. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1095
They tell me that chew can wear some roots - High John the Conker, alligator root, and 'coon root, and put a little salt in that, a little cayenne pepper, and make a sack out of it [thus making a hand] and wear it round your neck with a little bluestone and alum in it, and that the individual can't hurt yah. [AZligator root is either shaped like an alligator or root from the sweet gum tree, often called alligator tree in Southern U. S. A. because of its bark - "wing-like projections" from the smaller branches. Coon root may be a root thought to be liked by racoons.]