FAMILY PHYSICIAN. =e 33 
to grow much, a in the fall geet th 
Dose, one tea-s hoes 
in hot water, SPestoncd: repeated 20% 
necessary. 
Liver Wort. —— 
aie a grows in moist shady places. The 
e somewhat like leather, and remai 
ie flowers are of a p po 
yell 7 ‘ey starlike form. 
I “> $t-is 
are very fine 
good article for bleednig at the lungs, consump- 
tion, coughs, and for all complaints of the liver, 
taken in the form of tea, drank co — or ina 
s 
ond that of a mild demul- 
cent astringent. ed 
Lobelia. 
a biennial plant, growing M parts 
oth ag United States, by the roadside, in bar- 
ren fields, with a solitary blossom, of a pale 
blue color, flowering in August. The seeds re- 
semble those of tobacco,-and the ee is by 
some called Indian Tabacco. The w 
is acrid and nauseous, producin, igen’ 
The lobelia is the most y lua and a 
emetic known; it acts as a sudorific, expect 
rant, and diffusible saat and for the relief, wii. 
and cur e of —* ont has not yet — 
