Madame Young's Guide to Health / Her experience and practice for nearly forty years; a true family herbal, wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of all the roots, herbs, &c., indigenous to the United States, and their combination in all the diseases the human body is heir to; also, an explanation of the human body, its liability to injuries through ignorance of its structure. Dedicated exclusively to her sex.

by Amelia Young

MILK, OR SILK WEED.

This has a square stalk, and rises three feet in hight; flowers yellow, which terminate in a pod.

Medical Virtues.—The root has been found effectual in the cure of dropsy. I have used it with success in all dropsical cases.