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26. Remedy for Hcemotrhage, especially Hce,moptisis. — ■ 

 We have received from Mr. James H. Linsley of Stratford, 

 the following statement of facts respecting the Lycopus vir- 

 ginicus, commonly called bugle-weed, and by some per- 

 sons water-hoarhound. It is, says Mr. Li. found to be almost 

 a sovereign remedy for internal Hmmorrhages. 



Inconsequence of a publication by Mr. L. in the Connect- 

 icut Herald, two years ago, about twenty persons afflicted 

 with hcEraoptisis, were restored to health by the use of the 

 bugle-weed. The months of August and September are 

 the proper time in which to collect the plant, of which a 

 full description may be found in the books. 



It grows spontaneously in most of the United States, in 

 low and wet lands, and is a very common weed. The 

 leaves are broad, and frequently of a bright purple; ioints 

 of the stem thicker upwards, stem quadrangular and branch- 

 ing, flowers opposite, sessile, white, and resemble those of 

 the common hoarhound, (Marubium vulgare.) It begius to 

 flower in August, and continues nearly through September 

 — from eight to eighteen inches high. 



Mr. L. remarks "I have been afflicted for some years with 

 hoemorrhage from the lungs, and about five years since, was 

 requested by Mrs. D. Porter, (sister of the late Pres. Dwight^) 

 to drink a tea of the bugle-weed, made as strong as the com- 

 mon hyson-tea — to use it cold, and as often as I pleased. 

 I did so, and found immediate relief; had no return of the 

 complaint for two years — again resorted to the tea, and was 

 again restored ; and though I had bled for some days previ- 

 ous, had no relapse after using the tea. Whenever 1 per- 

 ceived the symptoms of sudden bleeding, a violent flush in 

 the face, pressure at the breast, &c. by drinking the tea, the 

 symptoms were immediately dispelled. This I have done 

 hundreds oftimes, when, I have reason to believe, that without 

 its application, I must, in many instances, have raised blood." 



"I feel sensibly cooler after drinking the tea. In com- 

 plaints of this kind, the circulation of the blood being une- 

 qual, and frequently giving a high flush to the face while 

 the body and limbs are frequently shivering with cold, it 

 would appear as if the essential quality of this plant is, pow- 

 erfully, to equalize the circulation of the blood." 



'It is not productive of the same deleterious effects as dig- 

 italis, laudanum, &;c. nor of any ill effects whatever, on me^ 



