advanced stages of pulmonary inflammation, after 

 depletion has been carried to the requisite extent. 



Dr. Parker, of Virginia, having been in the habit 

 of employing this root for twenty-five years, con- 

 siders it as possessing a peculiar and almost specific 

 quality of acting upon the organs of respiration ; 

 promoting suppressed expectoration, and relieving 

 the breathing of pleuritic patients in the most ad- 

 vanced stages of the disease. 



Like other vegetable bitters, if given in large 

 quantities, especially in infusion and decoction, it 

 operates on the alimentary canal, though its efficacy 

 in this respect is not sufficient to entitle it to rank 

 amongst active cathartics 



The best mode of administering the Asclepias 

 root, is in decoction or substance. A teacup full of 

 the strong decoction, or from twenty to thirty grains 

 of the powder, may be given in pulmonary com- 

 plaints several times a day. 



Success does not always attend the best efforts 

 to preserve this plant. This generally arises from 

 one of two causes ; that of removing old plants, or 

 depositing them in moist situations. In America it 

 is found in dry sandy soils, and pine woods; and 

 attempts to preserve it in wet or stiff earth will ge- 

 nerally prove abortive. 



It should be raised from seeds, which, as they are 

 not frequently perfected in England, must be ob- 

 tained from America. These may be planted in 

 spring, on a bed of light sandy earth, and it will be 

 an advantage if they can be raised in the situations 

 in which they are to remain. If transplanting be re- 

 quired, perform it when the plants are one year old. 

 Hort. Kew. 2, v. 2, 82. 



