by five or six applicatious of this oil to the part. 
~ _ CeLanpine, tHe Greater. © Chelidonium Major. The leaves. 
__ This plant grows in meadows and by running brooks ; rises two 
or three feet in height ; has many tender, round, green, watery stalks, 
with large joints, very brittle and transparent ; leaves large, serrated, _ 
and very tender ; the flowers, consisting of four leaves, are yellow, 
after which come long pods, which when compressed by the. ee 
fly into pieces instantly. : ess 
The properties of this plant are, acrid, stimulant, aperient, deter- 
ey diuretic, and sudorific. The juice rubbed on warts extirpates 
1em, cures ring worms, and cleanses old ulcers. It has been fo 
beneficial in dropsy, vitiated habit, and green sickness. A p 
made of this plant boiled in milk, has cured the tetters. Infusedin 
vinegar it promotes perspiration. The herb boiled in white wine, _ 
and aromatics added, and drank, is excellent in jaundice, and 
moves visceral obstructions, particularly of the liver. 
It is also used for taking films off the eyes ; for this pu 
half a gill of the expressed juice of the leaves of celan 
gill of the fresh juice of the leaves of ground 
spoonful of salt in it, and keep it in sand in a c 
The film must be wet with a small hair brush dipped a 
three times a day, and afterwards wash the eye with alittle warm 
milk and water. Also, in the cure of the above complaint, the pa- 
tient may take twenty or thirty drops every morning and evening of 
the expressed juice of this plant, in a gill of new milk; or half ate: 
spoonful of the powder of the root in milk, twice a day, increasing - 
the dose occasionally. Twenty drops of the juice, mixed in an 
ounce of rose water, makes an excellent eye water, which will cure 
the most inveterate sore eyes, by wetting them morning and evening. 
A poultice made of roasted roots, washed in vinegar, and applied to 
scrofulous tumors on the neck, quickly disperses them. An oint- 
ment made of the roots boiled in hog’s lard is good for the piles. — 
Cenraury. Centaurium Bitior: The leaves and flowers. 
This useful plant rises about ten inches in height ; stalks erect; 
leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, and obtuse; flowers terminal, in 
bunches, of a pink red color. It grows wild in barren pastures, in 
most parts of the United States, and flowers in June and July. _ 
_ Centaury is justly esteemed one of the most efficacious bitters 
digenous to the United States, and is a good substitute for the ] 
glish gentian, which it resembles in taste. It is a good st 
€mmenagogue, febrifuge, and vermifuge. * : es 
7 Two ounces of the flowers and leaves of centaury, and one} 
a dy for twe 
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Orange peel, may be infused in two quarts®f bran 
3 ‘table spoonful of this tincture taken before bi 
___ er, will create an appetite; and children havi 
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