HEDEOMA PULEGIOIDES. 
worked into a mass and thus formed into pills. The dose is from 
two or ten drops. 
The infusion commonly called pennyroyal tea, is a very popu- 
lar domestic remedy, and freqnently taken freely without regard 
to quantity or strength. The most popular method of making 
this tea is: take of pennyroyal a handful, of boiling water a 
pint. Steep in it a covered vessel, and sweeten with sugar. 
This infusion is warming and grateful to the stomach, and is 
particularly useful in allaying nausea and vomiting. In large 
draughts it promotes perspiration, and taken freely on guing to 
bed, it is an excellent remedy for a sudden cold, or slight attack 
of disease. Combined with cayenne, it may be given with great 
advantage in obstruction of the menses, the feet having been 
previously bathed in warm water, hence it is much used as an 
emmenagogue in popular practice, and frequently with considera- 
ble success, It affords relief in flatulency and pains of the sto- 
mach and bowels, and for this purpose may be given freely to 
children, Although pennyroyal affords a very popular graveo- 
lent tea, and probably more used in domestic practice than any 
other of the aromatic herbs, yet there are many other labiate 
plants which are equivalent to it, and possibly more agreeable. 
This herb put into water which has become unwholesome 
during a sea voyage, will give it an egreeable flavor, and render 
it less injurious to the system. 
This plant is also frequently used to kill the Ticks, Ixodes, 
which attach themselves to men, dogs, and cattle in summer. 
Hence one of its common or vulgar names. These troublesome 
animals are found wherever the Hedysarums and Lespedezas 
or true tickweeds grow, upon which they breed. By rubbing 
the legs or boots with this plant or its oil, those insects will avoid 
you, or, if they have taken hold, the oil kills them. A strong 
decoction of the plant is equally convenient, and a strong decoc- 
tion of tobacco is as good. . 
‘The whole plant gives out, when pressed between the fingers, 
a strong, pungent, and grateful scent, which is extremely reviv- 
ing and pleasant, The expressed juice mixed with a little sugar- 
candy has been frequently prescribed for the hooping cough, and 
| with remarkable success. A table-spoonful is a dose. : 
ee A conserve of the young tops acts as a ‘dinretic and has 
: able in sravel. It is likewise good for the 
