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| Licheny tree, Ridge Trail. |
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| A branch within reach. Lungwort, Lobaria pulmonaria. |
The lobes supposedly look like lung tissue. Basing their reasoning on sympathetic magic (if it looks like something else, it must be good for that thing), European physicians used this to treat lung ailments. Here on the Canadian west coast, the Sechelt First Nations people used it for the same purpose, but for different reasons.* Maybe it actually worked?
*See Plants of Coastal British Columbia
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