Flowers (when).—In May and June.
Grows (where).—In middle western and southern states.
Prepared (how).—As a poultice, powder and infusion. Use one to one and one-half ounce of root to a pint of boiling water for infusion.
Diseases, Dose, etc.—For female weakness, bleeding, leucorrhea, and bearing down particularly, bloody urine, two to four ounces, of the strong tea, four times daily, and also used as an injection in leucorrhea, once daily. For bleeding from the lungs, one ounce every hour for a few doses. For dysentery and diarrhea boil one ounce in a pint of milk and use two ounces every two to four hours. Powdered root, given in hot water, may be used in doses of one-half to one teaspoonful three times a day, instead of infusion. Taken after confinement, use the infusion four times a day, smell of the red bethroots.
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BLACKBERRY. Dewberry or low blackberry. Red Raspberry.
Internally, used for.—Tonic and astringent, diarrhea, bleeding from the bowels and womb, injection for leucorrhea.
Externally, used for.—Gonorrhea, gleet.
Part used.—Leaves of the raspberry and the bark of the other two.
Flowers (when).—Spring.