$04 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR. 
FEVERFEW (Pyreturom PartHenivum.) 
This herb is a very common one, found in most gardens 
Tt has small divided leaves and flowers like daisies. It grows 
about two feet high. The small flowers standing at the top of the 
stem, in bunches; they are white round the edge and yellow in 
the centre. It has a strong smell, rather unpleasant. Many 
mistake this plant for the camomile, te which it bears some 
resemblance; but the similarity is only in the flowers. The 
points of difference are that the feverfew rises up in straight 
stalks, with leaves attached, the size of which might average 
three-quarters of an inch, very much indented. The 
camomile has a moss-like leaf, spreads along the grouud 
without stems, and smells much pleasanter. Both are good, 
but the feverfew is best as a nervine. It is especially good 
for hysterical complaints. The infusion is good for profuse 
menstruation and chronic inflammation of the womb. In 
domestic practice a medicine for coughs may be made by 
simmering an vunce in a pint of water for ten minutes, and 
straining hot upon half a pound of honey. Give a table- 
spoonful every two hours. For delicate persons a good tonic 
made of the cold infusion, a wineglassful three times a day. 
The flowers alone may be dried and used instead of the 
camomile, as we doubt not they are as good for fomentations. 
Combine them with wormwood, southern wood, and poppies, 
and you will have a gocd mixture for bathing sprains, 
swellings, &e. 
There are many other nervines, some of which we have 
noticed in the foregoing classes and some we will treat in the 
tonic list ; there are also some in the regular medicine division, 
still as in the other classes we have given the chief. 
