Starchy, mashed root use as a toothpaste. Use pollen as a hair conditioner. Drink root flour in a cup of hot water or eatthe young flowerheads to bind diarrea and dysentrery. Down makes excellent tinder. Dry brown head of a dry stalk in animal fat for a torch.
Dry stalks use for hand drill, arrow shafts with added hardwood noch and foreshaft.
Place directly on cut to control bleeding. Pollen is also mildly diuretic and emenagogue.