Food, medicine and culture of the Coast Salish people, medicinal uses for salal cover a wide range of ailments including treatment for cuts and burns, an infusion for indigestion, colic and diarrhea, respiratory distress from colds or tuberculosis, and as a convalescent tonic.Indigenous peoples use its berries in cakes or eaten dried, or mix them with other berries to prepare into jam or preserves. Salal berries are loaded with vitamins and antioxidants that prevent degeneration and help us to live a long and sustaining life. Apparently people from the Ditdaht First Nation chewed the young leaves tosuppress hunger when they did not have enough food.
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