Part used.—Root.
Gather.—Autumn.
Flowers (when).—July and August.
Grows (where).—In gravelly and sandy soils.
Prepared (how).—Infusion, one ounce to a pint of boiling water and let steep. Tincture; buy powder.
Diseases, Dose, etc.—Dose of powder, ten to thirty grains three times a day in womb diseases. For falling womb use one ounce pleurisy root and one-half ounce unicorn root (true), mix powder and give in twenty to thirty grain doses three times daily; and an injection of the same, in infusion, may be given once a day. For pleurisy, etc., in first stage give the warm infusion to promote sweating. Dose,—Four teaspoonfuls every half hour, until sweating is produced. Following is good for diarrhea and dysentery: Tincture pleurisy root two ounces, brandy one ounce, syrup of raspberry three ounces. Half to one teaspoonful everyone or two hours.
POKE. Garget. Coakum. Pingeon Berry. Scoke. Phytolacca Decandra.
Internally, used for.—Chronic rheumatism, syphilis, sore throat, sore, inflamed breasts, scrofula.
Externally, used for—For fat people. Caked breasts, felons and tumors.