Elecampane.  Inula Helenium.

Internally, used for.—­For sweating, expectorant, bronchitis, dyspepsia and dysmenorrhea.

Part used.—­Root of the second year.

Gather.—­Autumn.

Flowers (when).—­In July and August.

Grows (where).—­In Europe and Japan.  Cultivated in United States and grows in moist places and about houses.  Prepared (how).—­Use half ounce of the powdered root to a pint of boiling water and boil to make a decoction.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—­For bronchitis, dyspepsia and dysmenorrhea, take half ounce doses four times daily.  For sweating and painful menses take two teaspoonfuls of the hot decoction every two hours until relieved.

Fleabane.  Pridewood.  Blood Staunch.  Mare’s Tail.  Colt’s Tail.  Fireweeds. 
Erigeron Canadensis.

Internally, used for.—­Diarrhea, dysentery, gravel, painful urination, piles, bleeding from the womb and bowels.

Part used.—­The whole plant.

Gather.—­Collect while in flower.

Flowers (when).—­July and August.

Grows (where).—­In United States and Canada.  In fields and meadows, by roadsides, etc.

Prepared (how).—­Powder, oil and infusion.  To make infusion, use one ounce to pint of boiling water.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—­The infusion, one to two ounces, should be used three or four times daily; powder, ten to twenty grains, the same.  The oil is more effective in bleeding and dysentery and bleeding piles.  Oil is very good, in doses of one to five drops every three hours for acute diseases, or three times a day for chronic cases.  Put on sugar.

Garlic.  Allium Sativum.

Internally, used for.—­Nervous children, coughs, colds, hoarseness, worms, croup, nervous vomiting.

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Externally, used for.—­Poultice.

Part used.—­The bulb.

Gather.—­When ripe.

Grows (where).—­Native of Asia and Egypt; now cultivated.

Prepared (how).—­Juice, syrup, powder, or may be taken whole.  Juice or syrup is the best form.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—­For coughs, bronchitis and worms, should be taken five times daily; croup, every half hour for a few doses.  Nervous cough and vomiting only a few doses.  Local.—­Bruise bulbs and apply warm as a poultice in bronchitis, croup and tumors.  For retention of urine, place a poultice in the perineum or over bladder on the abdomen.  Dose of juice, twenty to thirty drops.  Dose of syrup, ten drops to one teaspoon; this is very destructive to round worm.

Gentian.  Gentiana Lutea.

Internally, used for.—­Tonic appetizer, dyspepsia, ammenorrhea.

Part used.—­Root used and imported.  Grows (where).—­In the Alps.

Prepared (how).—­Powder, tincture and infusion.  To make infusion, use one ounce of the root to a pint of boiling water.