North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints.
Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints.
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Examples for "Indian hemp"
Examples for "Indian hemp"
1Those of the Cingalese are arrack, tobacco, fungi and the Indian hemp.
2Only Fu-Manchu, I think, would have thought of employing Indian hemp.
3Can it be that we were drugged on that occasion with Indian hemp?
4The active principle of Indian hemp is a resin.
5There were pieces of thread made of Indian hemp and the inner bark of the elm.
1The winter evergreen, or rheumatism weed, thrown in, is very beneficial to humors.