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North American Eclectic doctors and native women learned used blue cohosh to induce labor and ease labor pains. The herb was taken as tea, for a week or two preceding confinement, rendering delivery rapid and comparatively painless. They also used the root as a remedy for rheumatism, dropsy, uterine inflammation, and colic. These uses have been proven reliable by all methods of practice since. 
Blue Cohosh Medicinal Uses
The Blue Cohosh is indigenous to the United States, growing abundantly in moist, rich woods, from Canada southward to Kentucky and the Carolinas. It blossoms from April to May, before the full development of the leaves. The berries are mawkish, insipid, and without special flavor. The seeds are said to resemble coffee when roasted. This erect, perennial herb, attains a growth of from 1 to 2 1/2 feet. Root horizontal or contorted, wrinkled and branched, showing many up-right nodules, bearing at their summits the scars of previous stems, and giving off numerous cylindrical, branching rootlets from the older portions. Stem simple, glaucous when young, smooth when old, arising from several imbricate, membraneous scales. Leaves large, triternately decompound, the upper much smaller and biternate ; leaflets 2 to 3 lobed, obtusely wedge-shape at the base ; petioles blending with the stem in such a manner as to render their junction almost obscure. Inflorescence a loose raceme or panicle ; peduncle arising from the base of the upper leaf; flowers purplish' or yellowish-green. Sepals 6, oval-oblong, with 3 small bractlets at the base. Petals 6, gland-like, with a short claw and a somewhat reniform or hooded body, the whole much smaller than the sepals, at the base of which they are inserted. Stamens 6, overlaying, and about the same length as the petals ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, the cells opening by uplifting valves. Pistils gibbous ; ovary resembling the anthers in form, 2-celled; style short, apical; stigma minute, unilateral. Fruit a 2-seeded pod; epicarp thin, papyraceous, bursting and withering before fertilization is complete, leaving the naked seeds to farther develop upon their erect, thick funiculi ; pericarp fleshy, deep blue ; albumen corneous ; embryo minute, apical.
