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Wild Bergamot has a wide variety of medicinal uses identified by Indigenous Americans. The tops of the plant were dried and used as a sternutatory for the relief of colds. The leaves were placed in warm water baths for babies. The Flambeau Ojibwe gathered and dried the whole plant, boiling it in a vessel to obtain the volatile oil to inhale to cure catarrh and bronchial affections. The Meskwaki used this plant in combination with other plants to relieve colds. A decoction of boiled leaves was used as a cure for eruptions on the face. The Cherokee made a warm poultice of the plant to relieve a headache. The Blackfoot made a tea from the blossoms and leaves to cure stomach pains. They also applied boiled leaves to the pustules of acne. The Tewa dried the plant and ground it into a powder that was rubbed over the head to cure headaches, over the body to cure fever, and as a remedy for sore eyes and colds.
Early white settlers used it for the relief of flatulent colic, nausea and vomiting.
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Information courtesy of US Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
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