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Anyone driving past the scene of a recent forest fire is likely to glimpse
brilliant magenta blooms rising high above the blackened earth. The plant
they see is fireweed, which gets its name from the fact that it thrives
in burned over or disturbed land. In fact, soon after bombs devastated London
during World War II, fireweed sprang up in the heart of the city, where
it had not been seen for generations. Newly excavated sites and ditches
will often be filled with the plant, but fireweed also does well in rich,
moist soil, and favors upland regions such as the Rocky Mountains.
The American natives applied fireweed to rashes, eczema, and wounds to
staunch excessive bleeding. The plant has astringent properties which probably
did aid in healing wet rashes like poison ivy. Poultices made of crushed
leaves were applied to relieve pain from gout (inflammation of the joints
due to build up of uric acid), rheumatism, and sciatica (pain along the
sciatic nerve). Whether it has any analgesic properties has never been determined.
Fireweed was also used to treat hemorrhoids and called by frontiersmen,
pilewort.
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