. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. 93 GELSEMIN (Gelseminum Sempervirens). Common Names. Telloic Jessamine^ Woodbine, Wild Jessamine. Medicinal Part. The root. Description.—This plant has a twining, smooth, glabrous stem, with opposite, perennial, lanceolate, entire leaves, which are dark green above and pale beneath. The flowers are yellow, and have an agreeable odor. Calyx is
. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. 93 GELSEMIN (Gelseminum Sempervirens). Common Names. Telloic Jessamine^ Woodbine, Wild Jessamine. Medicinal Part. The root. Description.—This plant has a twining, smooth, glabrous stem, with opposite, perennial, lanceolate, entire leaves, which are dark green above and pale beneath. The flowers are yellow, and have an agreeable odor. Calyx is very small, viith five sepals, corolla funnel-shaped, sta- mens five, pistils two, and the fruit a two-celled capsule. History.—Yellow jessamine abounds throughout the Southern States, growing luxuriantly, and climbing from tree to tree, forming an agree- able shade. It is cultivated as an Ornamental vine, and flowers from March to May. The root yields its virtues to water and alcohol. Gelse- min is its active principle. It also contains a fixed oil, acrid resin, yel- low coloring matter, a heavy volatile oil, a crystalline substance, and Baits of potassa, lime, magnesia, iron, and silica. Properties and Uses.—It is an unrivalled febrifuge, possessing relaxing and antispasmodic properties. It is efficacious in nervous and bilious headache, colds, pneumonia, hemorrhages, leucorrhoea, ague-cake, but especially in all kinds of fevers, quieting all nervous irritability and excitement, equalizing the circulation, promoting perspiration, and rec- tifying the various secretions, without causing nausea, vomiting, and purging, and is adapted to any stage of the disease. It may follow any preceding treatment with safety. Its effects are clouded vision, double- sightedness, or even complete prostration, and inability to open the eyes. These, however, pass completely off in a few hours, leaving the patient refreshed, and completely restored. When the effects are in- duced no more of
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