118 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOCTOR, 
the leaves, and surmounted by one small white flower. The 
gold thread inhabits the northern regions of America and Asia, 
and is found in Greenland and Iceland. This is a valuable 
medicine for a stomach tonic. Professor Brown strongly 
recommends a mixture of one ounce of it with one ounce of 
golden seal, mixed into a decoction, with a quart of boiling 
water. Add one ounce to two ounces of elixir vitrol, and you 
have a medicine that if persevered with will take away the 
craving for alcoholic drinks. We might say the same of any 
other tonics. Add sufficient cayenne to give them pungency, 
and with a desire on the part of the drinker for a cure, the 
stomach will be brought back to a natural condition, and the 
craving allayed ‘[he gold thread cannot be excelled asa tonic to 
restore patients who, having passed through the acute stage, are 
suffering a recovery (as it is sometimes put.) To make it as 
palatable as possible, while conserving its tonic property, we 
would recommend the following :—- p 
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Strain, press through a cloth, and take from a half to a wine- 
elassful three times a day. Butif the weather is warm, it will 
be needful to fortify the mixture. This can be done by using 
one oz. each of the tinctures of ginger and cinnamon instead of 
the 4-ounce crude. 
SNAKE ROOT (Serpenrarra ARISTOLCHTIA). 
This species of aristolchia is an herbaceous plant, with a 
perennial root, which consists of numerous slender fibres 2 
proceeding from a short horizontal head. Several stems 
often rise from the same root. They are about eight or ten 
inches in height, slender, round, jointed at irregular distances, 
and frequently reddish or purple at the base. The leaves are 
oblong, heart-shaped, pointed, of a pale yellowish green 
colour, and supported on long slender round peduncles, which 
