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General
(American PennyroyaZ.) BOTANiCAT. Desceiption.— This plant is erect, branched and hairy; its leemes are petioled, oblong-ovate, obscnrely serrate, tlie floral similar! whorls few-flowered; coTolla, bluish, pubescent, scarcely esceedinj; tlie calyx; sterile filaments, tipped witii a little head. It is common and mostly found in open barren fields and woods; flowers from July to September; plant from sis to ten inches high, with nearly the same odor and taste as the true Pennyroyal (Mentlia puleginra.) of Europe.
[H. HispiDA. — Erect, hairy; plant from two to five inches high; leameg sessile, linear, entire, the floral similar, and exceeding the flowers; eorolla scarcely longer than tiie ciliate, hispid ealyx. It Is found in IllinoiB and southward.]
This is a well known plant growing in dry, sterile situations, especially Id calcareous soils and blossoms from Jane to September rendering the air fragrant for some distance around it It is an. indigenous annual, common to all parts of the United Slitei It has a pleasant, aromatic smell, which however is very oftonsive U) ^ome persona and a warm, pungent, mint-libe taate It must not be confounded with 'he Mentha pulegiuin, or European Pennyroj al
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Head
Excessive pains in the liead. Sore pain in the left temporal region.
Eyes
Lobs of vision, everything turns hlack.
Nose
Epis taxis.
Mouth
Di-ynes8 of the month; tongue covered with a very thin white coat.
Stomach
* Nausea; straining to vomit; pain or spasm in the stomach.
* Drawing pains from the stomach to the uterus and back.
Everything taken into the stomach causes pain.
Sensation as if the stomacli would come up into the mouth. ° Gastritis.
Abdomen
Bearing down pains; periodical pain. Distension of the abdomen ; soreness and sensitiveness.
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Obstinate constipation.
" Oolic-like pains from colds, diarrhcea, etc,
° Intestinal spasms of children.
TJriuary Organs.
Suppression of urine; tenesmus; painfnl urination Scanty nrination, with frequent and urging desire.
Cutting, burning pains in the ni'ethra.
Urine very dark, like black tea.
Generative Organs, Female. — Excessive bearing down pain, with pressure ont- wai-d from lower abdomen.
* Pains are periodical, like true labor pains, severe, aggravated
bj movement, and attended by sensation of weakness or paralysis of the lower limbs. Drawing from upper sacral spine to the uterus.
* Lencorrbtea, itching and burning, yellow, excoriating.
Excessive sensitiveness to pressure over both ovarieB.
"Amenorrhtea from atony of the organs.
'■ Spasms of the uterus.
° Congestion of the uterus and ovaries.
" False labor pains.
° Suppression of the menses, from a cold.
" Suppression of the lochia.
° Tlireatened miscarriage.
rhroat. Clioking sensation, as if something were rising in the throau.
Chest
Frequent and periodical dyspncea and oppression of the thorax. Labored, asthmatic breathing.
Back and Loins. Excessive pain in the back, with pressing downwards to tlia uterus.
Extremities
Paralytic weakness in all the limbs.
Stii&iees and weakness of the joints, with soreness.
Pains; laming, aching, rheumatic pains in the limba.
Stiffness of the knees, can hardly get up.
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