Editing Labrador tea (section)

==Uses==
The Athabaskans and other indigenous peoples brew the leaves as a beverage.<ref name="Dampc" />  The [[Pomo]], [[Kashaya language|Kashaya]], [[Tolowa]] and [[Yurok people|Yurok]] of [[Northern California]] boil the leaves of western Labrador tea similarly, to make a medicinal herbal tea to help with coughs and colds.<ref>[http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Ledum+glandulosum Native American Ethnobotany Database for Ledum glandulosum]</ref> Botanical extracts from the leaves have been used to create natural skin care products by companies in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. Others use Labrador tea to spice meat by boiling the leaves and branches in water and then soaking the meat in the [[decoction]].{{cn|date=October 2023}}

During the eighteenth century, German brewers used ''R. tomentosum'' while brewing beer to make it more intoxicating, but it became forbidden because it was thought to have led to increased aggression.<ref name="Dampc" />