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 . t ishighly extolled as a remedy in bilious colic. Dose.—One and a half ounce of the powder may be boiledin a pint of water, and one-third given at a time. YAEEOW.—{Achillea millefolium.) {Properties.)—Aromatic, Astringent, Styptic, Tonic. Description.—Yarrow rises from fourteen to twenty inchesin hight, furnished with bipinnate, very finely divided llowers are white, and arranged in clusters or in a corym-b
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 . t ishighly extolled as a remedy in bilious colic. Dose.—One and a half ounce of the powder may be boiledin a pint of water, and one-third given at a time. YAEEOW.—{Achillea millefolium.) {Properties.)—Aromatic, Astringent, Styptic, Tonic. Description.—Yarrow rises from fourteen to twenty inchesin hight, furnished with bipinnate, very finely divided llowers are white, and arranged in clusters or in a corym-bus form. It is found in pastures, by fence sides, and inwaste places, flowering from August until the middle ofautumn, and is a perennial plant. Medical Uses.—Yarrow is a highly valuable plant for medi-cal purposes, and employed by way of infusion, strengthensthe retentive force of the stomach, is excellent in spitting ofblood, diarrhea, dysentery, or bloody flux—fiuor albus, pro-fuse menses, cramps or spasms, measles, small-pox, scarlatina,colic, convulsions in infants, ague and fever, and incontinenceof urine. The same as a wash prevents falling of the DioscoREA ViLLOSA, (Yam-root.)
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