Flowers (when).—From April to June.
Grows (where).—In United States in open woods, thickets and hedges.
Prepared (how).—Powder. Use one and one-half ounces of the root and boil it in a pint of water or milk.
Diseases, Dose, etc.—Dose: one to two tablespoonfuls. Use the watery decoction as a gargle for sore mouth and throat. For piles:—Inject a strong decoction and retain as long as possible; or apply an ointment of two ounces of the root to tobacco ointment seven ounces, and apply three or four times a day. Nose-bleed and bleeding from teeth extraction:—Apply the powder or strong decoction to the part. Bleeding from the womb:— Inject strong decoction or apply on gauze or cotton to inner womb. Decoction, two parts to one part blood root, forms a good injection for leucorrhea and gonorrhea. Good in latter stages of diarrhea and dysentery of children, boiled in milk, given in teaspoonful doses, every one to three hours.
CULVER'S ROOT. Veronica. Black Root. Culver's Physic. Tall Speedwell.
Leptandra Virginica.
Internally, used for.—A laxative, bilious fever, dyspepsia due to inactive liver and bowels.
Part used.—Root. Age impairs its virtues. The dried root is safest to use, if not too old.
Gather.—In the autumn.
Flowers (when).—In July and August.
Grows (where).—In limestone lands and in rich moist places, woods, thickets, and barrens.