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Pacific Northwest tribes steeped this root for arthritis and stomach trouble long before anyone put it in a jar with a label.

For scorched summer skin, it works better as a cream than a supplement — a topical ointment showed over 81% of psoriasis patients improved after twelve weeks. Skip it if you're pregnant.

The land keeps giving even when nobody asks nicely.

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Wild raisin. Viburnum cassinoides. Withe-rod, and up in the southern mountains they call it Appalachian tea.

Strip the leaves, wilt them a day, then dry-toast in a skillet over low heat, turning the whole time, until they darken and smell of tobacco and hay. Three minutes. Four at the outside. Steep a heaping spoonful in just-off-boil water for five and you get something coppery and faintly sweet.

The toasting is the whole trick. Untoasted, the leaf is flat and green and not worth your kettle. Be precise, though — the famous antispasmodic cousins are cramp bark and black haw, not this one.

What grows near you that your grandmother never had to buy?

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