128 THE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY HERB DOOTOR. 
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF SIMPLES 
USED IN THE BOTANIC PRACTICE. 
In the following list of Simples, we have endeavoured to 
give at a glance the most common English and Botanical 
name of each plant, together with its chief properties indicated 
by abbreviations (which see), and as brief and clear an account 
of its general uses as possible to be given in so much space. 
In order to save space we will add our price list for 
ounce lots. Discount on d1b., 10 to 25 per cent.; 25 to 50 on 
ilb. ; trade parcels, special quotations. 
Inf., Infusion, is a simple preparation of an Herb or Bark, 
either in its er., crude, or pulv., powdered state. Pulverizing, 
or powdering, is effected by simple grinding in a mill. To 
infuse, put one ounce of Herb, if crude, in a pint imperial 
of boiling water, cover it over, and let it stand to keep 
hot from fifteen minutes to two hours, and strain. 
Dose—a wineglassful from two to six times a day. 
Ifthe Herb is pulverized, a teaspoonful of the powder to a 
teacupful of boiling water is a proper quantity, the half or whole 
of which, except the sediment, is taken at a dose ; drank warm 
or cold ; if to produce perspiration, warm. Infusion may be 
sweetened with sugar or not. , 
Dec., Decoction, is a stronger preparation of a vegetable 
medicine; itconsistsin boiling onetotwo ounces of Herb or Bark 
in a pint and a half, or two pints of water, down to one pint; 
strain, sweeten, or not. Dose—from half a wineglassful three 
times a day to a wineglassful two or three times a day; drank 
warm or cold; if to produce perspiration, as a decoction of 
Yarrow, &c., warm, and three wineglassfuls of such may be 
drank within an hour before going to bed. As a general 
rule, Relaxants, Alteratives, Anti-Scorbutics and Diuretics, 
&c., should be taken on an empty stomach. ‘Tonics or Bitters, 
