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

PROPERTIES EXPLAINED.

• Acrid—biting, caustic.
• Alterative—which establishes the healthy functions.
• Anodyne—quieting, easing pain.
• Anti-bilious—correcting the bile.
• Anti-lithic—preventing the formation of gravel, or stone.
• Aperient—laxative, or gently cathartic.
• Anti-septic—against or preventing mortification.
• Anti-scorbutic—useful in scurvy.
• Anti-spasmodic—against spasm, calming nervous irritation.
• Aromatic—agreeable, spicy.
• Astringent—shortening the fibres, strengthening.
• Balsamic—mild, healing, stimulant.
• Carminative—expelling wind.
• Cathartic—purgative, cleansing the bowels.
• Demulcent—sheathing, lubricating, preventing irritation.
• Deobstruent—bettering the secretions, or removing obstructions.
• Diaphoretic—producing insensible perspiration.
• Discutient—dissolving, discussing.
• Diuretic—increasing the urine.
• Emetic—causing vomiting.
• Emollient—softening, causing warmth and moisture.
• Errhine—discharging at the nostrils.
• Expectorant—producing a discharge from the lungs.
• Febrifuge—dispelling fever, allaying fever heat.
• Herpetic—curing skin diseases.
• Narcotic—stupafying, procuring sleep.
• Nerving—strengthening the nerves.
• Pectoral—useful in diseases of the lungs.
• Refrigerant—diminishing animal temperature.
• Rubefacient—producing heat and redness of the skin.
• Stimulant—exciting action on the system.
• Stomachic—good for the stomach.
• Styptic—preventing bleeding.
• Sudorific—causing sweat.
• Tonic—permanently strengthening the system.
• Vermifuge—destroying worms.

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