High-bush cranberry

Leslie Main Johnson
Leslie Main Johnson
Teetł’it Gwich’in Name:: 
dinjik jàk
Latin Name: 
Viburnum edule
Categories: 
By Uses
Medicine
By Type
Berries
Uses: 
Medicine

As medicine

The leaves of the high-bush cranberry plant are crushed and applied to relieve bee-stings and burns.

Source: Andre, Alestine, Nan t'aih nakwits'inahtsìh (The Land Gives Us Strength) (2006)