. 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. Ill. Kousso. water and administered. The value of this medicine has been known for a long time, having been introduced in the French practice over forty years ago. It is quite difficult to procure even the adulterated or spurious ar- ticle in America or England; the genuine is not to be ob- tained at any price in the drug-stores. In the store
. 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. Ill. Kousso. water and administered. The value of this medicine has been known for a long time, having been introduced in the French practice over forty years ago. It is quite difficult to procure even the adulterated or spurious ar- ticle in America or England; the genuine is not to be ob- tained at any price in the drug-stores. In the stores, however, can be obtained, at great cost, an active resinous principle, extracted from the flowers, and sometimes the unripe fruit, to which the names of Tcerdin and Kous- sin have been given. The dose of this is set down at twenty grains. Properties and Uses.—In large doses it will produce heat of the stomach, nausea, and sometimes vomiting, and occasionally wiU act powerfully on the bowels; but this is only when injudiciously taken. Its chief property is developed in the destruction and expulsion of worms, especially the tape-worm. It is the surest of all remedies for that dis- tressing affliction, when compounded with other ingredients which I have mentioned elsewhere. Taken in the proper dose, it seems to have no general effect, but operates wholly and solely upon the worms. The dose of the powdered flowers in infusion is half an ounce to half a pint of warm water. It must be reduced for children. If the medicine does not operate in four hours, use castor-oil. It is one of the ingredients of my Male Fern Vermifuge. (See page 474.) LADIES' SLIPPER (Cypripedium Pubescens). Common Names. American Valerian, Umbel, Nerve-root, Ydhw- Moccasin flower, NoaKs Ark. Medicinal Part. The root Description.—This indigenous plant has a perennial, fibrous, fleshy root, from which arise several round leafy stems, from twelve to eighteen inches high. The leaves are from three to six inc
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