If the problem involves too much water in the body, diuretic herbs such as dandelion, cleavers, pipsissewa, buchu, fresh cornsilk, barberry, and juniper berries should help.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference

The C. umbellata, pipsissewa, grows in North Carolina, and northward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Margat went out and gathered a lapful of pipsissewa to make tea, of which Corney was encouraged to drink copiously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Heroes] Reference

Lady's-slippers likewise (nothing but leaves) looked homelike and friendly, and the wild lily of the valley, too, and the pipsissewa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

In like manner one learns where to look for arbutus, for pipsissewa, for the early orchis; they have their particular haunts, and their surroundings are nearly always the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

In our present need for tonics and diuretics, in dropsy, or swelling following low and protracted fevers among our soldiers, no plant will be found more serviceable than the pipsissewa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

Not once had her troubled look wandered from the moist dead leaves on the ground, to the misty edges of the forest, where small wild flowers thronged in a pale procession of pipsissewa, ladies 'tresses, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miller of Old Church] Reference

A plain brown carpet suits it best, with a modest figure of green -- preferably of evergreen -- woven into it; a tracery of partridge-berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

Not once had her troubled look wandered from the moist dead leaves on the ground, to the misty edges of the forest, where small wild flowers thronged in a pale procession of pipsissewa, ladies 'tresses, and Enchanter's nightshade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miller Of Old Church] Reference

These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

'Tis a bit of tea will do ye good, made from pipsissewa and gentian bark at the druggist's. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference

Ralph walked by her side with a basket filled to overflowing with quantities of small ferns and rock moss, with which to border the edge of the waiter on which Mary intended planting ferns; tree moss or lichens, hepaticas, wild violets, pipsissewa or false wintergreen, with dark green, waxy leaves veined with a lighter shade of green; and wild pink geraniums, the foliage of which is prettier than the pink blossoms seen later, and they grow readily when transplanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"] Reference

Spotted wintergreen or pipsissewa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

The various species of gentian, thoroughwort, sabbatia, dogwood, poplar bark, willow, pipsissewa, or winter-green, wild cherry bark, sarracenia, etc., supply useful bitters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference

The plants just mentioned, the blackberry, chinquapin, (Castanea) and dogwood to be used as astringents, the gentians, pipsissewa, Sabbatia, etc., as bitter tonics, can easily be obtained by our soldiers while in camp, and they will be found to fulfil all the indications required in most cases of fever, dysentery, diarrhoea, catarrhs, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs] Reference