An old Latin distich thus celebrates its virtues: Enula campana reddit proecordia sana--"Elecampane will the spirits sustain.
Prior to the Norman Conquest, and during the Middle Ages, the root of Elecampanewas much employed in Great Britain as a medicine; and likewise it was candied and eaten as a sweetmeat.
Elecampane is specifically curative of a sharp pain affecting the right elbow joint, and recurring daily; also of a congestive headache coming on through costiveness of the lowest bowel.
The candy may be still had from our confectioners, but now containing no more of the plant Elecampane than there is of barley in barley sugar.
Furthermore, Elecampane counteracts the acidity of gouty indigestion, and regulates the monthly illnesses of women.
Take of black pepper and elecampane root, each one ounce; fennel seeds, three ounces; honey and sugar, of each two ounces.
Collection, Prices, and Uses--The best time for collecting elecampane is in the fall of the second year.
As found in commerce, elecampaneis usually in transverse or lengthwise slices, light yellow or grayish and fleshy internally, dotted with numerous shining resin cells, and with overlapping brown or wrinkled bark.
Description of Root--Elecampane has a large, long, branching root, pale yellow on the outside and whitish and fleshy within.
Description of Plant--When in flower elecampane resembles the sunflower on a small scale.
This was in pennyroyal time, and when the rare lobelia was in its prime and the elecampane was coming on.
I just saw a nice plant o' elecampane growin' back there," she said presently to her daughter.
The root of elecampanegathered in the fall, scraped, sliced, and strung with a needle and thread to dry, will keep its strength for several years, and is useful for a cough with hoarhound.
Take powdered elecampane root, powdered liquorice root, powdered anise seed, and sulphur, of each one dram.
Or, Ointment ofElecampane with Quick-silver, College.
Then theelecampane wine did good service; yet was it not till she had drunk of it many times that her tongue spoke plainly again.
Hot elecampanewine had been served to give them comfort, when again we heard horses' hoofs and the watchman's call.
But although elecampane may have been used for centuries it has proved to have little, if any, merit, and even the National Standard Dispensatory, p.
From its broad leaves, the Elecampane is sometimes called the Elf-dock.
To make Paste of Elecampane roots, an excellent remedy for the Cough of the Lungs.
Elecampane stands up tall and straight as if conscious of having been mentioned by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, more than two thousand years ago, as being an important stimulant to the brain and stomach.
The stout stalks of elecampane with their large leaves and yellowish brown flowers were seen, and numerous small plants peeped from among their rich setting of vines and mosses.
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