Diseases, Dose, etc.—­Some claim the infusion is good for snake bites or the expressed juice can be used.  This, to my mind, is doubtful and I would advise the usual remedies first.  The tincture is good for some kinds of toothache, in one to two drop doses.  The bruised leaves or the tea may be used for other diseases mentioned as poultice or wash.

Pleurisy root.  Butterfly Weed.  Wind Root.  Tuber Root.  Orange Swallow Wort. 
Asclepias Tuberosa.

Internally, used for.—­Pleurisy, pneumonia, catarrh, acute rheumatism, diarrhea, dysentery, sweating and expectorant, falling womb.

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.

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Part used.—­Root, leaves and berries.

Gather.—­Root late in November, cut in thin transverse slices and dry with moderate heat.  Berries, when ripe.

Flowers (when).—­July to September.

Grows (where).—­Native of United States along fences in newly cleared spots, in cultivated fields, roadsides, etc.

Prepared (how).—­Juice of plant.  Powdered root, poultice, fomentation.

Diseases, Dose, etc.—­One to five grains of powdered root as an alterative in chronic blood diseases, syphilis, etc.  Juice of plant, half teaspoonful three times a day, for same diseases can be used.  For caked breasts one to three drops of the tincture every one to three hours, at same time applying the root (roasted in ashes until soft) mashed and applied as a poultice; good also for a felon or can apply a hot fomentation of the leaves instead.

Prickly ash.  Toothache Tree.  Xanthoxylum Fraxineum.

Internally, used for.—­Chronic rheumatism, syphilis, skin affections, dysmenorrhea.