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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Agrimony (Hemp) - Herb Profile and Information
... reddish in colour, covered with downy hair and are woody below. They have a pleasant aromatic smell when cut. The root-leaves are on long stalks, but the stem-leaves have ... in the spring and against scurvy. The leaves have been used in infusion as a tonic, and in the fen districts where it prevails, such medicines are very necessary. Country people ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Asarabacca - Herb Profile and Information
... , very abundant in South America; but rare elsewhere. ---Medicinal Action and Uses---Tonic and stimulant, sometimes acrid or aromatic. The dried and powdered leaves of Asarabacca (Asarum Europaeum) are used in the ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Ash, Prickly - Herb Profile and Information
... . It belongs to the Yellow Wood family (Rutaceae), which all possess aromatic and pungent properties. The berries, growing in clusters on the top ... in a grey shell. The leaves and berries have an aromatic odour similar to that of oil of Lemons, and the ... general arterial excitement and tendency to perspiration and is a useful tonic in debilitated conditions of the stomach and digestive organs, and is ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Ash, Wafer - Herb Profile and Information
... a certain extent by physicians in the western United States. It has a peculiar, somewhat aromatic odour and a bitter, persistently pungent and slightly acrid, but not disagreeable taste. ---Constituents---The ... debility, and also in febrile diseases, especially in those requiring a mild, non-irritating bitter tonic, as it has a soothing influence upon the mucous membrane and promotes appetite, being ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Avens - Herb Profile and Information
... its weight of tannin. ---Medicinal Action and Uses---Astringent, Styptic, febrifuge, sudorific, stomachic, antiseptic, tonic and aromatic. In earlier days the roots were not only used medicinally, as at present, but to ... drachm, of the fluid extract of the root, 1/2 to 1 drachm. As a tonic, the usual dose of the powdered herb or root is 15 to 30 grains. As ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Balsam of Gilead - Herb Profile and Information
... reddish and thin, the inner green and thick, and a very aromatic odour. The juice exudes spontaneously during the heat of summer, in ... and the size of a small pea, with an agreeable and aromatic taste. In Europe and America it is so seldom found ... incense, and the taste bitter and rather unpleasant. They are stimulant, tonic, diuretic, and antiscorbutic. A tincture of them is useful for complaints ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Betony, Wood - Herb Profile and Information
... hairs; their whole surface is dotted with glands containing a bitter, aromatic oil. At the top of the stem are the two-lipped ... maladies of the head, and its properties as a nervine and tonic are still acknowledged, though it is more frequently employed in ... strained.' As an aromatic, it has also astringent and alterative action, and combined with other remedies is used as a tonic in dyspepsia and ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Birch, Common - Herb Profile and Information
... having acid properties, which, combined with alkalies, is said to be a tonic laxative. The leaves have a peculiar, aromatic, agreeable odour and a bitter taste, and have been employed in the ... , diaphoretic, and astringent, in a warm infusion. In decoction or syrup it forms an excellent tonic for dysentery, and is said to be useful in gravel and female obstructions. B. trophylla ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Boldo - Herb Profile and Information
... oil of Chenopodium (wormseed). The leaves contain about 2 per cent on distillation of an aromatic volatile oil, chemically related to oil of Chenopodium. A peculiar alkaloid called Boldine has been ... contain the bitter alkaloid Boldine and the glucoside Boldin or Boldoglucin. ---Medicinal Action and Uses---Tonic, antiseptic, stimulant. Useful in chronic hepatic torpor. The oil in 5-drop doses has ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Boneset - Herb Profile and Information
... in a single row. The odour of the plant is slightly aromatic, the taste astringent and strongly bitter. This species shows considerable variety in ... stomach, liver, bowels and uterus. It is regarded as a mild tonic in moderate doses, and is also diaphoretic, more especially when ... all cases of fever, as well as for its tonic effects. As a mild tonic it is useful in dyspepsia and general debility, and ...
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