Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada

by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Externally, used for.—Good for wens, boils, tumor, ulcers.

Part used.—Plant.

Gather.—Autumn.

Grows (where).—Well known plant.

Prepared (how).—Decoction; poultice made of roasted leaves.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—Decoction, freely drank for scurvy. Poultices should be applied to above troubles.

SKUNK CABBAGE. Swamp Cabbage. Meadow Cabbage. Polecat Weed. Fetid
Hellebore. Dracontium. Ictodes Foetida.

Internally, used for.—Asthma, whooping cough, nervousness, hysteria, convulsions of pregnancy.

Part used.—Root. Gather.—In autumn or early spring and dried carefully.

Flowers (when).—March and April.