[HERB DEPARTMENT 417]
Part used.—Herb and root. Latter is the best.
Flowers (when).—Throughout the summer.
Grows (where).—In the United States in waste places.
Prepared (how).—It is best used internally in the tincture, powdered root, or fresh juice.
Diseases, Dose, etc.—For liver disease, it is especially good where the pain is under the right shoulder blade. Use the tincture in ten-drop doses three times a day. Externally rub the juice on the corn or wart. Make an ointment from the root and rub this on the skin for salt rheum. It is said to be good for piles also. Dose:—Powdered root ten to twenty to thirty grains. Tincture, ten to twenty drops, and of the juice ten to twenty drops.
CHAMOMILE. Roman Chamomile. Anthemis Nobilis.
Internally, used for.—Tonic in small doses, dyspepsia, colic, cramp, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea.
Externally, used for.—Fomentation, boiled in vinegar and applied to painful swellings.