They learned the benefits of the natural healing power in cedar oil. When used properly, it helped to remove warts and heal small wounds on themselves and their animals. After a hunt they would often rub the legs of their horses down with cedar oil to help with circulation and to keep them from becoming lame. Other Uses Ojibwa Indians are said to have made soup from the inner bark of the young twigs. The essentialoil is used in cleansers, disinfectants, hair preparations, insecticides, liniment, room sprays, and soft soaps, sometimes anadulterant of oils of artemisia, dalmation sage, and tansy.
Wood contains a heat stable antibiotic useful as a food preservative.
Potawatomi rolled up the bark into wads which served as torches. Deer browse the young shoots. Sometimes grown as a Christmas tree, e.g. in India. Attractive for hedges and windbreaks. Valuable timber tree today, the heartwood lightweight and decay resistant.