Bethroot.  Birth Root.  Ground Lily.  Lambs Quarter.  Wake Robin.  Indian Balm.  Three-Leaved Night-Shade.  Trillium Purpureum.

Internally used for.—­Astringent, tonic, antiseptic.  For bleeding from lungs, kidneys and womb, for leucorrhea and for confinement.  Also for diarrhea, nose-bleed.

Externally.—­The root is used as a poultice for tumors, lazy ulcers, buboes, carbuncles, stings of insects.

Part used.—­The root.  This contains volatile oil, tannic acid, etc.

Gather.—­In autumn.

Flowers (when).—­In May and June.

Grows (where).—­In middle western and southern states.

Prepared (how).—­As a poultice, powder and infusion.  Use one to one and one-half ounce of root to a pint of boiling water for infusion.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—­For female weakness, bleeding, leucorrhea, and bearing down particularly, bloody urine, two to four ounces, of the strong tea, four times daily, and also used as an injection in leucorrhea, once daily.  For bleeding from the lungs, one ounce every hour for a few doses.  For dysentery and diarrhea boil one ounce in a pint of milk and use two ounces every two to four hours.  Powdered root, given in hot water, may be used in doses of one-half to one teaspoonful three times a day, instead of infusion.  Taken after confinement, use the infusion four times a day, smell of the red bethroots.

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Blackberry.  Dewberry or low blackberry.  Red Raspberry.

Internally, used for.—­Tonic and astringent, diarrhea, bleeding from the bowels and womb, injection for leucorrhea.

Externally, used for.—­Gonorrhea, gleet.

Part used.—­Leaves of the raspberry and the bark of the other two.

Flowers (when).—­Spring.

Grows (where).—­Almost everywhere.

Prepared (how).—­Use one ounce of the leaves of raspberry or bark of either of the others, to a pint of water and boil to make a decoction.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—­For diseases mentioned, such as diarrhea, take one tablespoonful every four hours.  For injection use the decoction.  This is used once daily for leucorrhea, gleet, gonorrhea, falling of the womb and bowel.  Internally it is also used as a diuretic.

Black Haw.  Viburnum Prunifolium.

Internally, used for.—­Tonic, astringent, diuretic and alterative.  Tonic for the womb, for threatened abortion and prevention of miscarriage.  Good for severe after-pains, and for bleeding from the womb.

Part used.—­Bark of the root.

Flowers (when).—­From March to July.

Grows (where).—­Most abundant in the middle states and southern.

Prepared (how).—­As an infusion and tincture (or fluid extract).  Prepare infusion by adding one ounce of bark of the root to a pint of boiling water.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—­For threatened abortion or miscarriage use infusion three or four times daily, in two teaspoonfuls doses, a week or two before, it usually has occurred; or the tincture in ten to twenty drop doses five times daily.  For bleeding from the womb take ten to twenty drops, four times daily, a few days before the time for the flow.