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Aboriginal women used maple syrup as a medication for bronchial ailments, particularly during the alternating warm and cold days of spring. Its caloric and nutritional properties are undeniable:

"When oppressed by a great famine, the natives eat the scrapings or bark of a certain tree that they call ‘michtan’ which they cut open in the spring so as to draw out a juice as sweet as honey…"

recounts Father Lejeune in the Jesuit Relations of occurrences in New France on the great St. Lawrence River in 1634.