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@ day: it cannot harm you. Where it is obstinate, the 
corrective pills or the essence of pennyroyal should be taken. 
Pennyroyal is also a simple and sometimes an effective remedy 
for colds; sweetened well it will be found especially good for 
children. Combined with agrimony and marigolds it makes 
a good mixture for scarlatina. 
TANSY (Tanacetum VuLGaRE). 
Is another old favourite herb, which, like pennyroyal, 
grows in all parts of the colonies. It is not so well known as 
the former, therefore we will give a short description as well as 
a picture, whicn will enable our readers to identify it, seeing 
“itis really a valuable medicine. Tansy has a perennial root, 
which spreads. The stem is herbaceous, green when 
young, but as it ripens it becomes of a brown purplish colour 
and somewhat woody ; the leaves are feathery, and the flower 
small and yellow, in shape like an old china shirt button. The 
size of the plant is from one to two feet high. It grows wild 
by the sides of creeks, in paddocks, andinthe bush. The top | 
leaves and flowers are the parts used ; an infusion extracts its 
virtues. Two ounces of the green leaves or one of the dry to 
the pint of boiling water, covered beside the fire one hour. 
Dose: One or two wineglassfuls, sweetened, three or four 
times a day. The cold infusion in wineglassful doses three 
times a day makes an excellent tonic, especially for those who 
are convalescent from fevers or exhausting troubles; useful 
also as a worm medicine. Mixed with syrup the powdered 
flowers destroy those parasites which infest the human system 
MUGWORT (Arremista VuLeaRis). 
It has various leaves lying upon the ground, much divided 
or cut deeply in about the brims, like wormwood, but larger, 
of a dark green colour on the upper side, and hoary white 
underneath. The stalk rises four or five feet high, having on 
it such leaves as those below, but smaller, and branching forth 
towards the top, on which small pale yellowish flowers, like 
buttons, appear in tufts. The root is long and hard, with 
