The people's physician; designed as a manual of medicine, expressly for the use of families and individuals ..To which is added a list of synonyms of many common medical plants . erties)—Anthelmixtic, Antispasmodic, Diuretic,Emmenagogde, Stimulant, Stomachic, Sudorific, Tonic. Description.—Ordinaiy garden Rue possesses a strong, un-congenial odor, and a bitter, penetrating taste. It is peren-nial, and has a number of stems, more than two feet in hight,branched, sufiiuticose, or woody at the base, but above, greenand soft, not woody. Leaves of a sea-green color, bipinnate,consisting of leaflets
The people's physician; designed as a manual of medicine, expressly for the use of families and individuals ..To which is added a list of synonyms of many common medical plants . erties)—Anthelmixtic, Antispasmodic, Diuretic,Emmenagogde, Stimulant, Stomachic, Sudorific, Tonic. Description.—Ordinaiy garden Rue possesses a strong, un-congenial odor, and a bitter, penetrating taste. It is peren-nial, and has a number of stems, more than two feet in hight,branched, sufiiuticose, or woody at the base, but above, greenand soft, not woody. Leaves of a sea-green color, bipinnate,consisting of leaflets thick and slightly uneven on the edges,inversely ovate, and without footstalks. Flowers terminal,yellow, and on peduncles, branching into a corymb. It isfound in gardens, producing flowers through July and August. Medical Uses.—Rue has been employed as a medicinefrom remote antiquity, and there has been ample room to testits true medicinal power. An infusion of the leaves with someleaves of <fi7Z, used internally and externally, remove severesciatic, or rheumatic pains, pains of the chest and sides,labored or difficult respiration, flatulent colic, and Cbocts Satitts, (Safiron.) MATERIA MEDIC A, 135 Boiled in water to the consumption of one-lialf, with the ad-dition of some honey, it proves a vermifuge. An ointment,prepared from the expressed juice, with the oil of roses^ wax,and a little pure vinegar, is a serviceable application in erysi-pelas, or St. Anthonys fire, running sores of the head, oroffensive ulcers in any part of the body. Rue acts on thenerves—corrects a defect of the usual secretions, is capable ofproducing powerful determination to the uterus, thereby re-moving uterine obstructions, or acting as an emmenagogue ;and not unfrequeutly in large doses, produces abortion—therefore is in no way fit to be taken in cases of pregnancy,especially, since in a number of instances it has been knownto be attended with very serious consequences, by in
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