Part used.—Leaves and kernels.
Gather.—When ripe.
Grows (where).—Cultivated.
Prepared (how).—By infusion; put ounce of leaves in one pint of cold water and let it steep.
Diseases, Dose, etc.—For inflammations take one tablespoonful of the cold infusion every hour or two. For bladder and urinary troubles and leucorrhea, put four ounces of the kernels in a quart of brandy; dose,—teaspoonful three or four times a day. For bowel troubles use half ounce of the flowers and half ounce of the kernels to a pint of water; boil to make a decoction and sweeten; dose,—teaspoonful occasionally, until relieved; for teething children and for worms use about five doses.
PENNYROYAL. Squaw Mint. Tickweed. Hedeoma Pulegoides.
Internally, used for.—Stimulant, sweating, menstrual troubles, suppressed lochia, suppressed menses, flatulent colic in children.
Part used.—The herb. Gather.—In fall. Flowers (when).—June to October.
Grows (where).—In dry sterile places in calcareous soils. In all parts of the United States, etc.
Prepared (how).—An infusion, one ounce to a pint of boiling water and only steep, not boil.