12 GINSENG. 



CH APTER VI. 

 GINSENG. 



Ginseng a Home Remedy. 



BY DR. I. N. MOYERS. 



"To those who wish to know how to use ginsenw as a medi- 

 cine, I will suggest the following as a genera! home use. Break 

 very dry root up with a hammer and grind it through a new coffee- 

 mill three or four times until reduced to a line powder- Then 

 take three ounces of powder and one ounce of milk sugar. To the 

 milk sugar add sixty drops of oil of wintergreen, and mix all to- 

 gether by rubbing them, and then bottle. Dose: one teaspoonful, 

 put into a small teacupful of boiling water. Let it stay a little 

 short of boiling point ten minutes. Then cool and drink as hot as 

 can be borne before each meal. It may be filtered and tea served 

 with cream and sugar with the meal. Made as directed this is a 

 high grade and a most pleasant aromatic tea, and has a good effect 

 on tlie stomach, brain, and nervous system. To those who have 

 chronic constipation I would advise one-fourth grain of aloin, ta- 

 ken every night, or just enough to control constipation, while tak- 

 ing the ginseng tea. If the evening dose of ginseng be much 

 larger it is a good, safe hypnotic, producing good, natural sleep. 



"The writer prefers the above treatment to all the whiskey 

 and patent medicine made. To those who are damaged or made 

 nervous by drinking coffee or tea, quit the coffee or tea and take 

 ginseng tea as above directed. It has a most pleasant taste and is 

 a good medicine for your stomach.. I do not know just how the 



