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To begin, the dose may be a tea spoonful four times a day; in 
‘an tea, increasing the dose to two or three tea spoonsful, accord- 
sa large wild plant, or species of balm, of a very hot taste, grow- 
ing from two to three feet high, bearing a blossom on the top of its 
stem, like a small rose. io eel sgt alien oS 
ea of this herb has been found very effectual to relieve the : 
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: gravel, even when other medicines have proved ineffectual. a 
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y Speaking, it is a safe and valuable diuretic and diaphoretic. - zz 
 Monxstoop, on Woxrspanr. Anconitum Napellus. The — 
. ee herb and root. = i 
“This is a perrennial plant, found on high mountains ; it is com- 
_™oninGermany. It grows from two to five feet high ; leaves lobed, 
deeply lancinaied, standing alternate, upon long footstalks, the sur- 
face of the leaf of a deep green, the under side whitish ; flowers nu- 
merous, terminal, of a deep purple, and hood-shaped. 
The fresh plant and root are very violent poisons, producing re- 
markable debility, paralysis, and other consequent symptoms. By 
drying, their acrimony is almost entirely destroyed. For medical 
use the root must be gathered before the stem shoots. 2 
_ When properly administered, it acts as a penetrating stimulus, and 
generally excites sweat, and sometimes an increased discharge of ~ 
urine. On many occasions it has been panes a very effectual reme- 
dy in glandular swellings, venereal nodes, stiffened joints, amaurosis, 
and rheumatic pains, intermittent fevers, and convulsive dis, 
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nly used in the form of an inspissated juice, or extract. 
It is an unfortunate circumstance, that the powers of this medicine . 
vary much, according to its age, and the heat employed in its pre- 
tion, When fresh, its action is often too violent, and when kept 
_sagerees than a year, it becomes totally inert. ’ 'Pherefore it tiny bo © 
_Jaid down as an universal rule in.the employment of this and many 
other similar medicines, to begin with very small doses, and to in- _ 
‘crease them gradually to the necessary degree. We may begin by 
giving half a grain of the extract of monkshood, made up into a pil 
-with any convenient substance, twice or thrice a day, gradually ine 
Moruerwort. Leonurus Cardiaca. Root and herb. Ze 
__ This valuable plant has a hard, square, brownish, strong stalk, 
rising from two to four feet high, spreading into mary branches, _ 
leaves broad and long, two at every joint, notched about the edge, 
__ From the middle of the branches to the tops grow the flowers roun 
-gbout them, in sharp pointed, rough, prickly husks or burs, of a. 
