Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians

by Huron H. Smith

SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT FAMILY)

Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis L.), “mandaˈmînîodjiˈbîkêns” [little corn root]. This is a sort of love charm according to John Peper, Pillager Ojibwe, who said that the root was chopped up and put into some dish of food that was cooking, without the knowledge of the people who were going to eat it, and if they had been quarrelsome, then they became lovers again. However, he said it was too often put to bad uses.