They are
used externally
as fomentations, in colic, faceache, and tumours, and to unhealthy ulcers.
They are
used internally
in the form of infusion, with carbonate of soda, ginger, and other stomachic remedies, in dyspepsia, flatulent colic, debility following dysentery and gout. Warm infusion of the flowers acts as an emetic; and the powdered flowers are sometimes combined with opium or kino, and given in intermittent fevers.
Dose
, of the
powdered
flowers, from ten grains to one drachm, twice or thrice a day; of the