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 . Panax Quinquefolium, (Ginseng.). Hydrastis Canadensis, (Golden Seal.) MATERIA MEDICA. 65 bowels, bloody flux, dysentery, profuse menses, exudation,or profuse discharge of humors. As a wound herb it is in-ferior to none, both for internal and external uses, curingspeedily fresh wounds, chronic sores or ulcers. It is a sov-reign remedy, in the form of a wash, for diseased gums, orchronic looseness of the teeth, ulcerati
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 . Panax Quinquefolium, (Ginseng.). Hydrastis Canadensis, (Golden Seal.) MATERIA MEDICA. 65 bowels, bloody flux, dysentery, profuse menses, exudation,or profuse discharge of humors. As a wound herb it is in-ferior to none, both for internal and external uses, curingspeedily fresh wounds, chronic sores or ulcers. It is a sov-reign remedy, in the form of a wash, for diseased gums, orchronic looseness of the teeth, ulcerations in the mouth andthroat or other localities. The sweet-scented Golden-rod,{Solidago odora^) is used by way of warm infusion, as a stimu-lant, carminative, and diaphoretic, — allays flatulent pains,and regulates the unpleasant efiects, or taste, attendant on theuse of other medicines of a harsh or irritative nature. GOLDEN-SEAL.—{Hydrastis canadensis.)(Properties.)—Antibilious, Aperient, Tonic. Description.—This small plant, known also by the nameof yellow puccoon., has a yellow root, with some knobbyportions, connected by fibers, which gives rise to one or twoleaves, gashed or divided into a f
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