stance, they offend the stomach. | 
The expressed “juice of the berries, dried to the consisten 
rob; proves an useful aperient medicine ; it opens obstructions” 
the viscera, promotes the natural evacuations, and if continued 
length of time does considerable service in various chronical disor- 
ders. An ounce of the juice of the berries, purges. 69 6s 
_The inner green bark is greatly cathartic. An infusion of it in’ 
wine, or the expressed juice, in the dose of half an ounce or more, is 
said to purge moderately, and in smaller doses to prove an efficacious | 
deobstruent, capable of promoting all the fluid ons. The 
young leaf buds are strongly purgative ; and act with violence 
_ An ointment for burns is formed of elder bark. Eh er flo 
decoction is very useful in erysipelatous fevers. 
Dwarr Enver. Sambucus Ebulus. 
Tt rises two or three feet in height, is herb-like, erect and prick- 
ly; leaves opposite, pinnated, composed of four or five pair, with — 
an odd one at the extremity ; flowers, terminal, or 
_ Scattered shafts ; the fruit is a round, black, single celle 
taining three i shaped seed. It grows in hi 
road sides in almost every part of America. one 
_ The juice, and decoction of the roots has been found most effica- 
cious in curing dropsies. Tt is a powerful hydragogue, or water 
purge. A gill of the juice of the inner green bark works power fully 
“upwards and downwards, and has frequently cured dropsies 
For common use in the dropsy, two ounces of the dried root may be 
boiled to a quart, and a gill taken morning and night. One ounce 
of the inner green bark, dried, and one of the dry roots, may be 
boiled to two quarts ; a tea cupful taken three times a day works 
powerfully as a diuretic, and is good in suppression of the urine. 
nt Ececamrane. Inula Helenium. 'The root. 
' This is a very large, downy, perrennial plant, found in rich culti- 
vated soil, or by the road sides ; a number of large leaves rise annu- 
ally from the root, from the centre of which rises a stalk three or 
four feet high, bearing leaves all the way up, which are smallest at — 
the top ; has many branches, producing large yellow flowers, some- 
what in the form of a sun-flowe 
- . The root is white, with prongs 
_ Tunning deep into the ground. Its taste on first chewing, is gluti- 
nous and somewhat rancid, quickly succeeded by an aromatic bitter- 
ness and pungency. ’ ee 
_ This root is an excellent pectoral, and is beneficial in 
etic. It attenuates viscid ‘phlegm, relieves humoral coughs’ 
st'mas, excites urine and insensible perspiration, gently 
; Strengthens the stomach, and the tone of the visee 
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also detergent, attenuant, laxative, stomachic, diuretic and dia- 
