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1. clover

• names: meadow clover, red clover, cocksheads, suckles, honey-suckles
• extract said to have the power of healing scrofulous sores, and helps with cancer
• syrup made from flowers of the red clover help with whooping-cough
• heals skin eruptions in children (no idea what that means)

2. club moss

• helps in mucous indigestion, mal-nutrition, attend with sallow complexion, slow, difficult digestion, flatulence, waterbrash, heartburn, decay of badily strength, and mental depression in SMALL amounts.
• 10 grains may be taken twice a day mixed with a dessertspoonful of water

3. colts foot

• leaves used for cigars
• powder may be very beneficially smoked for asthma or for spasmodic bronchial cough
• made into tea to cure scrofulouss sores
• the dry leafs soaked in warm water will serve as an emollient poultice

4. comfrey

• provoke itching when handled
• poultice deemed excellent for soothing pain
• recommended for broken bones
• sort of a glue

5. coriander

• fruit aids in digetion
• used by veterinarians as drugs for horses and cattle

6. cowslip (no idea what this is)

• sedative is yellow of flower
• powdered roots used for wakefulness, hysterical attacks, and muscular rheumatism
• parts used for plaster

7. Cresses

• in england, these plants have long been cultivated as a source of profit
• leaves of wild cresses were eaten as a substitute for giving pungency to the food
• garden cress contains sulpher and a special ardent volatile medicinal oil
• prenventive o scurvy
• water cress contains a sulpho-nitrogenous oil, iodine, iron, phosphates, potash, certain other earthly salts, a bitter extract, and water
• water cress dissipates the fumes of liquor, dispelling the tremors, and takes the foul taste from excessive tabacco smoking