This plant grows in almost all parts of the Union. It is a remedy highly valued by many physicians, and is a favorite blood purifier with the Indian doctors. They use it freely in cases of bad blood and eruptions and diseases of the skin with marked success. I, in my practice, have used it in over one thousand cases of skin diseases with noticeable and good results. It has, beyond question or doubt, very valuable or alterative properties. I think more of it, in the treatment of scrofula, than any other one remedy in the vegetable kingdom. It is a valuable remedy in many cases of dyspepsia where there is a pressing sensation, and a fullness and heavy weight in the stomach--that portion called the pit of the stomach--and the sensation is said by many to feel like a brick in the stomach. It is good for all catarrhal affections. It promotes the general action of the entire system.

Mode of preparation. -- Take the green root, cut up fine and fill with good whisky. Let it stand fourteen days, and it is then ready for use. Dose: a tablespoonful two or three times a day.