nd eight days in a dark
cool place; pour off, strain and filter.

Diseases, Dose, etc.--Dose of tincture, one-half to one teaspoonful. For
chronic diseases take one to two ounces of infusion four times a day. For
suppressed urine take half ounce every two hours. Dose of infusion, from
one to two ounces every three hours. To tone the womb and make labor
easier, the Indians used to take it several weeks before confinement. For
sore nipple: two ounces (fresh, if possible) and make a strong decoction
in a pint of boiling water. Boil down thick and apply on nipple after each
nursing.

PEACH TREE. Amygdalus Persica.

Internally, used for.--Constipation, tonic to the stomach and bowels,
leucorrhea, worms, inflammation of stomach and bowels, irritable bladder.
haematuria, dysentery.

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Part used.--Leaves and kernels.

Gather.--When ripe.

Grows (where).--Cultivated.

Prepared (how).--By infusion; put ounce of leaves in one pint of cold
water and let it steep.

Diseases, Dose, etc.--For inflammations take one tablespoonful of the cold
infusion every hour or two. For bladder and urinary troubles and
leucorrhea, put four ounces of the kernels in a quart of brandy;
dose,--teaspoonful three or four times a day. For bowel troubles use half
ounce of the flowers and half ounce of the kernels to a pint of water;
boil to make a decoction and sweeten; dose,--teaspoonful occasionally,
until relieved; for teething children and for worms use about five doses.

PENNYROYAL. Squaw Mint. Tickweed. Hedeoma Pulegoides.

Internally, used for.--Stimulant, sweating, menstrual troubles, suppressed
lochia, suppressed menses, flatulent colic in children.

Part used.--The herb. Gather.--In fall. Flowers (when).--June to October.

Grows (where).--In dry sterile places in calcareous soils. In all parts of
the United States, etc.

Prepared (how).--An infusion, one ounce to a pint of boiling water and
only steep, not boil.

Diseases, Dose, etc.--Use infusion freely. Dose of oil two to five drops.
For menstrual troubles, checked lochia and perspiration, take a hot foot
bath in bed and drink freely of the tea until sweating occurs. It is
frequently taken at bedtime for painful menstruation, etc.

PEPPERMINT. Mentha Piperita.

Internally, used for.--Tone stomach, colic, spasms, or cramps in stomach,
to check nausea and vomiting.

Externally, used for.--Fresh herb bruised and laid over the abdomen, to
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