. Gunn's New domestic physician, or, Home book of health : a complete guide for families, giving many valuable suggestions for avoiding disease and prolonging life, and pointing out in familiar language the causes, symptoms, treatment and cure of the diseases incident to men, women and children : with the simplest and best remedies, also, describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants . norrhea or painful menstruation. Dose of theOil, from five to fifteen or twenty drops on a little Sugar. Comfrey—(Symphytum Officinale).—This plant is also a native ofEur
. Gunn's New domestic physician, or, Home book of health : a complete guide for families, giving many valuable suggestions for avoiding disease and prolonging life, and pointing out in familiar language the causes, symptoms, treatment and cure of the diseases incident to men, women and children : with the simplest and best remedies, also, describing minutely the properties and uses of hundreds of well-known medicinal plants . norrhea or painful menstruation. Dose of theOil, from five to fifteen or twenty drops on a little Sugar. Comfrey—(Symphytum Officinale).—This plant is also a native ofEurope, but is very generally cultivated in our gardens for its medici-nal properties. It is too well known to need any description. Theroot is the part used. Medical Properties and Uses.—Comfrey root is demulcent or mucil-aginous, and somewhat astringent. It acts mainly on the mucoustissues of the system, as a soothing and healing agent, and is there-fore good in pulmonary affections, as , bronchitis, bleeding ofthe lungs and incipient consumption, as well as in diarrhea, dysen-tery, and in leucorrhea, and other female weaknesses. It may betaken freely in the form of infusion, or in sirup; or may be used inthe form of wine bitters, either alone or in combination with otherarticles, such as those named in conjunction with Chamomile , the Comfrey root, bruised and made into a poultice, is an. May Weed—Anthemis Coiula. Page 828. Black Root—Leptandrinfa/jo 74? 48 - !«
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