SAG eimai: a.ect —, 
_ _‘The savine oil is one of the most violent emmens 
- ought therefore te be used with the greatest caution iti obs' 
of the uterus or other viscera, proceeding from laxity or weakness. 
| Externally, the leaves are applied in the form of powder or infusion, 
__ to warts, carious. bones, and old ulcers; and in cases of itch 
_ grene, and scald head. oat # poe. 
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Scasiovs. Erigeron Philadelphicum. The herb. | 
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Called also skevish fleabane, scabis »ish; cocash, frostweed, squ 
weed, &c. Its roots are perrennial, yellowish, formed by many — 
branching thick fibres. ‘The stalks rise two or three feet, sometimes, 
four or five in number, straight, simple, branched with small umbels ~ 
at thé top. Leaves oblong, obtuse, alternate, remote, larger at the 
foot of therstalk, and decreasing in size upwards. Flowers nume- 
rous, radiate, half an inch in diameter, with yellow disk, and rays 
white, bluish, or purplish, in shape similar toa daisy flower. I 
found in fields, and dry meadows, sometimes covering them en iN 
- ‘There are several species of them, and they are ger onsi 
ed pernicious and troublesome weeds, on a farm. 
These weeds are valuable medicines, possessing very 
they are diuretic, sudorific, astringent, styptic 
_ pectoral and tonic, in a high degree, and act in a mode peculiar to 
themselves, by means of their acrid quality. Their oil is so power- — 
ful, that two or three drops dissolved in alcohol, 
tincture ; but less than the oil, which is 
vegetable styptics. This extract, and a syrup of the plant, have-been: 
“given usefully in dry coughs, bleeding at the lungs, and other inter- 
‘nal hemorrhages. The dose is from five to ten grains of the extract, 
often repea +) — al 
a diuretic, the infusion, and tincture are preferable and more 
y have increased the discharge of urine three fold. -A 
pint or two of the former may be taken daily, and it agrees well with 
the stomach. The dose in tincture is from three to four drachms 
daily; it is made by digesting an ounce of the leayes.in a pound ot 
_ proof spirits. They are beneficial in all diseases of the bli 3 
kidneys, attended with pain and irritation, in which they give 
relief. Also in all compound cases of gravel and gout. — The 
“cured diarrhea, from their astringency, without any auxiliary. ~ 
. hey are used externally, in wounds, also in hard tumors and | 
which a cataplasm of the fresh plants dissolve and disp 
the most valuable property is the astringent and styp 
oil, which has saved many lives in partu ition and. 
