Diseases, Dose, etc.—Take one to three ounces four times a day for chronic diseases, and one ounce every two hours for acute troubles mentioned above. It is a mild soothing drink and medicine.
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MARIGOLD. Calendula Officinalis.
Externally, used.—As a local remedy for cuts and wounds, applied constantly, it is the best remedy I know.
Part used.—Leaves and flowers.
Gather.—When in full bloom.
Grows (where).—Well-known garden plant.
Prepared (how).—Make a tincture of the flowers and leaves, or buy it. To make tincture: Take the fresh leaves at the top of the plant with the blossoms and buds, chop and pound to a pulp, enclose in a piece of new linen and press. Shake the expressed juice, with an equal part of alcohol by weight, allow it to stand eight days in a well stoppered bottle, in a dark cool place and then filter.
Diseases, Dose, etc.—Use freely on clean linen or gauze on wounds, cuts, etc.
MILKWEED. Also called Silkweed. Asclepias Syriaca.