University of Michigan at Dearborn Native American Ethnobotany Database
(database accessed August 2005)

 Cinna
2 entries


Cinna arundinacea L.
Sweet Woodreed; Poaceae
Iroquois Drug (Misc. Disease Remedy)
Compound decoction of plants taken for sugar diabetes.
Herrick, James William 1977 Iroquois Medical Botany. State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis (p. 274)


Cinna arundinacea L.
Sweet Woodreed; Poaceae
Gosiute Food (Unspecified)
Seeds used for food.
Chamberlin, Ralph V. 1911 The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah. Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405. (p. 366)



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