i low broom, clover broom, rattle bush, &c. 
a 
ration in typhoid fevers, deep seated r 
great } nae 3 ‘a 
breast, chronic catarrh, &c. 
pains. the 
Wi Inpico. Baptista Tinctoria. The root. 
Also called, yellow indigo broom, indigo weed, horsefly weed, ye 
The root is large and woody, blackish outside, yellowish within : 
‘stalks two or three feet high, round and smooth, yellowish green, with 
black dots, branches thin, with small leaves; leaves alternate, with 
three leaflets, sessile, of a bluish green ; flowers bright yellow, in 
ceeded by an oblong pod ofa bluish black color. __ Sun Bien a 
This plant has the appearance of a small shrub, or broom; it dyes 
akind of blue like indigo. It is often used to keep flies off from 
+horses, as insects appear to avoid it. It is found all over the United 
States, in woods and on hills, and prefers dry and poor soils. The 
whole plant, but particularly the root, is nauseous, sub-acrid, and sub- 
i t. Itis active and dangerous in its fresh state, iftakenin- _ 
ternally, but loses much of action by long keeping and boiling. == 
Its properties are, astringent, antiseptic, febrifuge, diaph 
purgative,-emetic, and stimulant: It is a valuable reme 
Kinds of ulcers, even the foulest, either gangrenous, eating, orsyphi- — 
litic ; also for almost every sore, such as malignant ulcerous sore ee 
throat, mercurial sore mouth, sore nipples, chronic sore eyes, painful __ 
acrid sores, and every ulcerous affection. It must be used external- 
ly in strong decoction as a wash, or in a fomentation ; also in poul- 
tice, lard or cream. a ORT id 
This is one of the most powerful vegetable antiseptics in putrid 
disorders, and in internal mortification ; it may be given internally at 
the dose of half an ounce of a decoction made with twenty times its 
weight of water. It stops gangrene, has cured scarlet fever sore 
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_ “throat, inverted womb, and sometimes putrid and typhus fevers. 
Jeavsarem Osx. Chenopodium Anthelminticum. The herb and 
This isa small bushy plant, rising about eighteen inches in — 
height, full of branches with few small leaves, deeply jagged on the 
dges, resembling the leaf of an oak, (from whence it derives its 
Wame,) which are reddish at first on the underside, and afterwards 
become of a yellowish green: from the middle of the branches 
"upwards grow small yellow flowers. The whole plant has a pow- 
‘erful smell, and the taste is bitter, with a good deal of aromatic — 
5 ‘Aerimony. The seed it produces is emphatically known Cited 
‘of worm seed, and it grows in most parts of the Ui 
‘At is carminative, pectoral, antispasmodic, emmenagogue raed a 
ifuge. For destroying worms, the expressed juice may be us 
of tao epooufl, fora child two or thee ears 
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