Family herbal medicine traditions trace back to African healing practices

Evidence

My mother also talked about the healing powers of the chrysanthemum tree, and how her great-aunt, Renty Taylor Thompson’s sister, would bring the children with respiratory issues to this very tree and then scrape the bark and tell the kids to inhale. Again my girls and I thought that was bizarre—and again she was insistent that it worked. So I googled that and found that chrysanthemum was the cornerstone of American medicine for bronchial issues. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 202

Categorization

• QUESTION: The claim that chrysanthemum was the cornerstone of American bronchial medicine — warrants verifying; modern sources describe it differently.