This you can call a garden root as well as a wild one. It is a fine remedy in its place, and is grown by many in their gardens simply for its medical proprieties.

Medical properties and uses. -- This remedy is good for bad colds and coughs, and wherever there is irritation of the mucous membrane of the throat and bronchial tubes, and has been used with success in hundreds of cases of bleeding from the bowels, lungs, and womb. It acts as a soothing paste to the mucous surfaces, and produces a similar taste in the mouth, that is, the green root, to that of the green slippery elm bark. It is emulcient and soothing. Dose of the tincture, from 10 to 20 drops every two or three hours. When there is a tickling cough, a few drops every hour or half hour. It is best combined with other cough remedies, the recipe for which I will give hereafter.