Externally, used for.—Poultices and fomentations.
Part used.—Leaves and top.
Gather.—Early autumn.
Flowers (when).—June to September.
Grows (where).—Grows in dry neglected places, about old buildings and fences.
Prepared (how).—The infusion should be prepared by adding one ounce of the plant to a pint of boiling water, Do not let it boil, but only steep; stand only a few minutes; when wanted as a tonic, use it cold. When used for sweating purposes, etc., it must be used hot.
Diseases, Dose, etc.—Drink as freely as the stomach will permit. It is frequently used for colic in babies in doses of half to one teaspoonful, warm. To produce sweating it should be used hot and freely taken. A combination of catnip, lady's slipper and skullcap, equal parts, either in the infusion or fluid extract, one dram doses, is good for nervous headache, hysteria, chorea. Leaves are used as a fomentation. The expressed juice of the plant is good for amenorrhea in one to two teaspoonful doses five times daily.
CELANDINE.—Tetter Wort. Chelidonium Majus.
Internally, used for.—Liver and skin troubles.
Externally, used for.—Warts, corns, salt rheum.