But medicinal usually means not good for a staple food. You could overdose on it, and a pig might be able to--or might just ignore it. The leaves and seeds would be fine, but the huge tubers wouldn't, I think.
I'm going to try giving mine a little bit of whatever tuber I can find from our water lily plants here when it's spring and see what happens.
Sid Deshotel wrote:According to google;
The fragrant water-lily has both medicinal and edible parts. The seeds, flowers and rhizomes can all be eaten raw or cooked. The root can be boiled to produce a liquid which can be gargled to treat sore throats or drunk to treat diarrhea. The rhizomes were also used by Native Americans to treat coughs and colds.
So I would say yes