COMMON NAME. Prairie Hyssop.
    MEDICINAL PART. The plant.
    Description. -- This pubescent plant has a simple stem, growing from one to two feet high. The leaves are sessile, entire, and linear; flowers are white, and fruit an achenium.
    History. -- It is found in low grounds, dry hills, and plains, from Ohio and Illinois extending southward, and flowering in Juy and August. The whole plant is used, and has the taste and odor peculiar to the mint family.
    Properties and Uses. -- It is diaphoretic, stimulant, antispasmodic, carminative, and tonic. A warm infusion is very useful in puerperal, remittent, and other forms of fever, coughs, colds, catarrhs, etc., and is also of much benefit in spasmodic diseases, especially colic, cramp of the stomach, and spasms of infants. The cold infusion is a good tonic and stimulant during convalescence from exhausting diseases. It forms a most certain remedy for catarrh when combined with other native and foreign herbs and roots.
    Dose. -- From one to four fluid ounces of the warm or cold infusion, several times a day.
    The P. Pilosum, P. Aristatum or Wild Basil, and P. Incanum, have similar properties.