CINQUEFOIL. 173 



purpose, and Senac * bears testimony also on the same point. 

 A drachm of the powder in an ounce of wine should be taken 

 just before the paroxysm. Cinquefoil is now scarcely ever ex- 

 hibited in fevers, but it has for many ages been employed as a 

 remedy in all diseases where astringents were deemed necessary, 

 particularly diarrhoea and dysentery -f, spitting of blood, bleed- 

 ing at the nose, and in profuse menstruation or flooding. By 

 the French t practitioners it is also reputed valuable for ca- 

 tarrhous affections, coughs, jaundice, calculi, and ulcers in the 

 kidneys. 



Externally, the expressed juice of the fresh root, or a strong 

 decoction, may be usefully employed in chronic inflammation of 

 the eyes ; and the latter in foul ulcers of the mouth or throat, 

 scorbutic state of the gums, and all malignant ulcers. 



The leaves of cinquefoil possess the same qualities as the root, 

 but are much weaker. The cortical part| of the root should be 

 selected, which, when dried and reduced to powder, may be taken 

 from a scruple to a drachm at a dose. 



DECOCTION OF CINaUEFOIL. 



Take of bark of Cinquefoil root, one ounce; 



Water one pint and a half. 



Boil gently until reduced to a pint. 



This may be used externally and internally in all ordinary 



cases. The dose, a quarter of a pint, twice or thrice a day. 



• Senac, De recond. febr. interm. nat. p. 185. 

 f Chomel, L'Hist. Plant. Usuell. torn. 2. p. 296. 

 J Flore Economique, p. 450. 



