chocolate root

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the purple or water avens, Geum rivale.

Quotations

1822

And in the running waters are the willow-leaved meadow-sweet, water avens or chocolate root, and so on.

1828

. . . a decoction of a root, called chocolate root, is used by the Indians as a certain remedy for the severest attack of cholic.