Wahoo

Wahoo is a shrub native to eastern North America, also called American wahoo, eastern wahoo and burningbush, according to Wikipedia. Wikipedia says the fruit is poisonous to humans and that Native Americans and pioneers used the powdered bark as a purgative. Cunningham heads his entry Wahoo, with the Latin name spelled Euonymus atropuraea, and marks it Poison. He lists hex-breaking, courage and success, and gives the folk names Burning Bush, Indian Arrow Wood and Spindle Tree. He has an infusion of the bark rubbed on the forehead of a hexed person while saying Wahoo seven times, and has the bark carried for success and courage. Kynes sells dried bark but heads her entry Spindletree and covers two species, so her entry is not cited. The American Herbal Products Association also records hazards, as set out in the safety notes.