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Dog Fennel

Volume 1, entries 1235–1236. 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 1235

Volume 1 · printed page 437 · Sumter, S. Car.

Take de dog fennel root an' yo' kin drink de tea out of that an' yo' kin git anything out of you that a person trying tuh hurt chew - that chew got down. Or if they tryin' tuh, yo' see, do anything to yo'.

Related subjects: Protection, Roots, Tea

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Entry 1236

Volume 1 · printed page 437 · Sumter, S. Car.

Yo' evah heah of dog fennel? Well, de root of dat is good. Yo' evah heah talk of the dogwood? Well, de root of dat is good. Ah used tuh go tuh work an' git a tea - take de root an' make a tea of it, an' dat insec' or whatsomevah it 'tis dey got down in yuh, well dat'll bring it out.

(You use either the dog fennel or the dogwood tree root? Each one is good?)

Each one is good.

Related subjects: Roots, Tea

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