This is a weed that usually grows along creeks, and in sandy and rocky places. It has a yellow flower that blooms in the month of August , and the leaves and flowers should be gathered during that month. They have a very important medicinal property, beyond any physician's idea, and no doctor will be convinced of the fact until he has given it a fair trial.

Medical properties and uses. -- This plant, if not known in any other way, I am sure is known by the name of Dr. Green's August Flower, the great dyspeptic remedy. I am well acquainted with an old and eminent physician in Felicity, Ohio, formerly from Tennessee, where he practiced for the southern planters. His name is Dr. Gibson. He is a noted Eclectic, a gentleman and a scholar, a natural and practical herbalist, and has given the August Flower and its medical properties close and thorough attention, and values it very highly as a remedy for irritation of the mucous membrance of the stomach and bowels, kidneys and bladder. I knew of one case of a little boy about ten years of age, who had what many physicians would call indigestion. The boy complained of his stomach and bowels, and everything that he ate passed through him nearly in the same condition that he swallowed it. The attending physician brought all his knowledge to act on the case, and tried all that in his judgment was calculated to help or relieve the pathological condition. The remedies simply checked the trouble, but on quitting them it returned as bad as before. So the patient fell into the hands of Dr. Gibson, of Felicity, Ohio. He gave his medicine, and the boy quickly recovered. It was a mystery to me, and I, knowing the doctor to be a gentlemen, and free to impart his valuable knowledge to all that he thought would use it for the good of suffering humanity, asked him what he gave the boy. He told me he gave him August Flower Pills of his own make, and in two days the boy was well and had natural discharges from his bowels, which was evidence to me that there is wonderful medical virtue in the August Flower, no matter who may ignore it. The boy's bowels and stomach were in a high state of irritation, and consequently every thing he took in the way of food on that account could not be digested, and ran through him as swallowed. The August Flower acted as a mucous film to protect and soothe the irritated mucous membrane from the food, which, when the stomach and bowels were in that condition, proved an irritant instead of a strengthener and support. August Flower is good to overcome irritation of the mucous lining of the stomach and bowels and bladder. It acts kindly on the kidneys and liver. Good for dyspepsia and biliousness.

Take the leaves and tops of the plant, cut up fine and make a tincture. Dose, a teaspoonful three or four times a day. Or boil them down in a thick syrup, and take equal parts of gum arabic and flour and make into pills the size of a buck shot. Dose, from four to six per day, as the case may demand.