Kinikinnick

"Also called Bearberries, they may be eaten, although they are mealy, tasteless and not choice. Cooking and blending with other berries helps make them more palatable. The leaves make a pleasant tea, which is popular in some parts of the world. The tea or tincture is astrin gent, used as a disinfectant diuretic. Recommended for nephritis, kidney stones, cystitis and bedwet ting. A commercial drug, arbutin is derived from the leaves. Uva-ursi leaves have been traditionally used as a tobacco; “Kinikinnick" is an Algonquian word meaning “something to smoke.”" http://www.alaskaherbtea.com/Foraging/kinikinnick.htm