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 . s,an infusion or tincture should be taken at the same time in-ternally, to cleanse the system and remove the redundant hu-mors from the blood. A warm infusion, drank plentifully, isof great utility in pleurisies and fevers, by inducing a free orcopious perspiration, and thereby throwing off the disease. GEOUXD IVY.—(GlecTioma hederacea.){Properties)—Demulcent, Pectoeal, STOMAcmc, Tomc. Description.—This plant is found
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 . s,an infusion or tincture should be taken at the same time in-ternally, to cleanse the system and remove the redundant hu-mors from the blood. A warm infusion, drank plentifully, isof great utility in pleurisies and fevers, by inducing a free orcopious perspiration, and thereby throwing off the disease. GEOUXD IVY.—(GlecTioma hederacea.){Properties)—Demulcent, Pectoeal, STOMAcmc, Tomc. Description.—This plant is found in various parts of theUnited States, inhabiting groves, or shady grounds by hedges,or skirts of woods. It possesses no deleterious qualities,—usually called, Gill-go-over-tJie-ground. Medical Uses.—A decoction of the leaves is very useful indisorders of the chest and lungs—obstructions of the liver, orin cases of jaundice, laxity, and debilitated state of the bowels,—impurities of the blood, dyspnoea, or asthmatic has a peculiar and direct action in ulcerations of the lungs,kidneys, etc., and is considered useful as an errhine and PoLEMONiUM Reptans, (Greek Valerian.) MATERIA MEDICA. 69 {Properties.)—Abortive, Cephalic, Deobstruent, Diu- EETic, Emmenagogue, Stimulant. Description.—Ground-Pine grows low, seldom rising abovethree inches in hight, running over the ground, and furnishedwith small, linear, or slender, grayish, resinous scented leaves—some like pine leaves—frequently many bushing together atthe joints—sometimes a few scatteringly placed on the flowers are small, of a pale yellow, and standing at eachjoint with the leaves. These are succeeded by small roundishpericarps of seeds. The root is annual, small, and plant grows in neglected fields, or waste barren grounds,flowering and yielding seed during the summer months. Medical Uses.—The decoction of Ground-Pine is very ef-fectual in cases of str
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