FAMILY PHYSICIAN. - 17, 
Blue Cohush. 
This is also ‘called blue berry, pappoose root, 
blue ginseng, &c. It grows from two to four 
feet high, the root is yellow imside, brown out- 
side, hard, irregular, age , branched, with 
many fibres, stem upright, straight, smooth, di- 
viding at top into three rich te of which 
has = leaves, in the centre o grows 
the fi 2m, leaves smooth, | 
thing in am 
are asi 
rapes. It is an annual oleiit growing alo ve 
the United Siates, and is generally found in 
flammation of the womb, Peter Smith : says 
that the Indian women es ‘the facility of their» 
parturition, to a constant use of a tea of t 
wee 
It is powerful to promote delivery, menstrua-— 
tion and dropsical pee and is servicea- . 
ble in venereal compla 
For rheumatic wm Ce two ounces s of thin 
root, and one ounce of blood root, bruised and 
ay: 
There are tous species of cohush besides the 
