The American physician : being a new system of practice, founded on botany ; for the use of families and practitioners.

  • Rogers, David
Date:
1824
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    A&1&R1CAX PHYSICIAN. A Description of Medicinal Plants, their Properties or Virtues, Localities, fyc. arranged in Alphabetical order. [JVWfc —When a Plant bears several names, the one in most common use is iuEeited first ] ALKANOKE. Description.—Tins shrub grows usually about ten feet high, rarely more than twenty. It bears yellow berries, set in clusters or bunches. The bark resem- bles that of yellow birch. Placet.—If commonly grows in swamps where there id a cold atmosphere. J have found it in the vicinity of the Black river, (JV. Y.) also, in the States of Maine and Vermont. In is abundant. Virtues.—The bark is a moderate astringent. An ounce of this steeped in one quart of water and drank daily ','!■ a considerable time, cleanses the blood by ex- citing the secretions of the liver, braces the nervous? system, and strengthens the memory. It is useful in jaundice, consumptions, and all other morbid affections. BLACK ALDER. •tion.—It commonly rises four or five feet in the form of a hedge bush'. The bark is of a dark erspersed with white spots. The rind, when chewed, will turn the spittle yellow. It bears round i 3, which are red at the time of frost. Place.—It grove- in swamps and wet places. Vikti es.—The rind is the part mad'' use of, which is considerably ent and bitter. The bark made