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can be made with it. It may be substituted for sumac and 
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SHEEP Sorret. Rumex Acetosa. The leaves. — 
Sheep sorrel is common and well known, growing in old pastures 
and cornfields, throughout the United States. 
An infusion of the leaves is refrigerant, useful in all inflamma-— 
3, as well as in the scurvy. Sorrel Jeaves, wrapped up and 
iw, sted, and applied to indolent tumors, wens, biles, inflamma- 
2a tions, &c. rose them to asuppuration very quick. It will be found 
- quite serviceable in such cases. : “ 
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_heous eruptions, hard: tumors, preventing the hair from falling out, 
and causing it to grow. For worms, from one to two tea-spoonsful 
of the powder may be taken in molasses morning and evening. —__ 
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© It is aperient, pectoral, diuretic, and has been found beneficial 
in disorders of the breast, both catarrhous and ulcerous; it purifies — 
the blood and juices. An infusion of the leaves drank as tea, pro- 
_ motes urine, strengthens the stomach, removes melancholy, gravelly 
ee. bloody urine, hoarseness, and colic. : 
nay be taken in infusion, or in powder of the root, a tea spoonful 
_ twicea day. — ; 
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rE naRD. Aralia Nudicaulis. 'The root. ee, 
; Spikenard root is perrennial, brown, yellowish, ¢ 
‘sometimes many feetlong, the thickness of the finger 
one leaf mostly rising together, and Jess than two feet 
‘straight, leafless, with three small simple naked umbe 
leaf with nine folioles or leafle 
from twelve to thirty in each 
small, similar to elder berries in ie 
to Carolina and Indiana, more common in the north than if 
; grows in deep woods, and good soils, It has a balsat 
and warm aromatic sweetish taste. 
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