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Detail Pages - Facts and Lore: Bee Balm ~ Oswego Tea ~ Bergamont , Black-eyed Susan , Blue Vervain , Bluets ~ Quaker Ladies ~ Innocence , Boneset ~ Thoroughwort , Celandine , Coltsfoot , Common Dandelion , Common Elder , Dame's Violet ~ Dame's Rocket ~ Garden Rocket , Ground Ivy ~ Gill over the ground ~ Alehoof , Purple Coneflower ~ Echinacea , Queen Anne's Lace , Queen Anne's Lace VS. Water Hemlock , Red Clover , Water Hemlock ,
Detail Pages - Facts and Lore: Bee Balm ~ Oswego Tea ~ Bergamont , Black-eyed Susan , Blue Vervain , Bluets ~ Quaker Ladies ~ Innocence , Boneset ~ Thoroughwort , Celandine , Coltsfoot , Common Dandelion , Common Elder , Dame's Violet ~ Dame's Rocket ~ Garden Rocket , Ground Ivy ~ Gill over the ground ~ Alehoof , Purple Coneflower ~ Echinacea , Queen Anne's Lace , Queen Anne's Lace VS. Water Hemlock , Red Clover , Water Hemlock ,
- Terms:
- Alterative
- A medicinal substance that gradually restores health (f/d)
- Antiscorbutic
- An agent effective against scurvy (f/d)
- Antiperiodic
- Arrests morbid periodic movements (h)
- Antispasmodic
- Preventing or relieving spasms or cramps (f/d)
- Aperient
- Gently laxative without purging (h)
- Cathartic
- A powerful purgative or laxative, causing severe evacuation, with or without pain (f/d)
- Demulcent
- An agent that is locally soothing and softening (f/d)
- Deobstruent
- Removes obstruction (h)
- Diaphoretic
- An agent that induces sweating (f/d)
- Diuretic
- An agent that induces urination (f/d)
- Emetic
- An agent that induces vomiting (f/d)
- Expectorant
- An agent that induces the removal (coughing-up) of mucous secretions from the lungs (f/d)
- Nervine
- An agent that affects, strengthens, or calms the nerves (f/d)
- Purgative
- An agent that causes cleansing or watery evacuation of the bowels, usually with griping (painful cramps) (f/d)
- Sialogogue
- Increases the secretion of saliva (h)
- Spasmolytic
- Checking spasms or cramps (f/d)
- Sudorific
- Inducing sweating (c)
- Stimulant
- An agent that causes increased activity of another agent, cell, tissue, organ, or organism (f/d)
- Tonic
- An ambiguous term referring to a substance thought to have an overall positive medicinal effect of an unspecified nature (f/d)
- Vulnerary
- An agent used for healing wounds (f/d)
- Treatments:
- Clysters
- Enema or injection (c)
- Conditions:
- Erysipelas
- Inflammation and redness of skin
- Gravel
- Sand-like deposit in urine (c)
- Scrofula
- Constitutional condition with glandular swellings and tendency to tuberculosis (c)
- Sources:
- (f/d)
- Peterson Field Guides, Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants,
Steven Foster / James A. Duke, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston 1990 - (h)
- Indian Herbalogy of North America, Alma R. Hutchens,
Shambhala Publications Inc., Boston 1973 - (c)
- Culpepers Color Herbal, ed. David Potterson,
Sterling Publishing Co., New York 1983
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