COMMON NAMES. Hazlewort, or Wild Nard.
    MEDICINAL PARTS. Root and leaves.
    Description. -- The stem of this plant is very short, simple round and herbaceous, bearing dark-green reniform leaves; also one drooping flower of purple color, without corolla. The fruit is a capsule.
    History. -- This is a European plant, growing in moist hilly woods, and flowers from May to August. The root, when dried, has a pepper-like odor, spicy taste, and yields an ash-colored powder; the leaves give a green powder, and have the same medicinal properties as of the root. They impart their virtues to water or alcohol.
    Properties and Uses. -- Emetic, cathartic, and errhine. Used principally as an errhine in certain affections of the brain, eyes, face, and throat, toothache, and paralysis of the mouth and tongue. It is used by drunkards in France to promote vomiting.
    Dose. -- Powder, 10 or 12 grains; as an emetic, from one-half to one drachm.