This section of the book is from "The Complete Herbalist" by Dr. O. Phelps Brown. Also available from Amazon: The Complete Herbalist: The People Their Own Physicians By The Use Of Nature's Remedies.
MEDICINAL PART. The root.
Description. -- The thick stem of this plant
is from three to four feet high, and arises from a perennial bulb or root.
Leaves scattered, lanceolate, and narrowed at the base. Flowers are
large, snow-white, and smooth inside.
History. -- The Meadow Lily is an exotic.
It is a native of Syria and Asia Minor. The flowers are regarded
as being very beautiful, but are not used for medical purposes. The
plant is principally cultivated for the flowers. The bulb is the
part used for its curative properties. Water extracts its virtues.
Properties and Uses. -- It is mucilaginous,
demulcent, tonic, and astringent. It is chosen by some of our best
botanical practitioners as a certain remedy for leucorrhoea and falling
of the womb, and for those affections, when combined with Life-Root and
other herbal preparations, is without an equal. Sometimes the recent
root is used to advantage in dropsy. Boiled in milk, it is also useful
for ulcers, inflammations, fever-sores, etc. I use it in combination
with other indicated plants as an injection in leucorrhoea, with very gratifying
success.
 
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