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- Oss flee Fffeacy of White sintrUeid. taken internally
ai a. Care fur varions Complaints. .
In the naonthafJane, DM, I made a trial of White
Mustard Seed merely as an aperjent; when thegenerally
improved state of'my feelings, which soon followed, in-
clined, me to give it credit ior medicinal properties of a
- ..ery beneficial nature, besides that, for which I took it.l
Under this imprestitm, I gave it to some of the si.:k 'poor
the neighbQurhood, 9ud with a success which excited
my astonisliment. I have since recommended it in
many cases, of which several were very disttessing ; and
stie result is such as to authorise a persuasion, that the
public are not aware of its very exti am (Hilary powers, nor
of the very.great variety of cases to which it is applicable.
The mustard seed appears to act not only on .the
bowel*, but on the skin and kidneysalso. It is likewise
found to-strengthen and invigorate in a remarkable de-
gree, the whole line of the alimentary canal ; and con-
- sequently, to improve digestion and assimilation, and
with that, appetite, sleep, and general health. In dis-
eases therefore wising (tom a disordered state of the
-stomach and. bowels, it is probably a very general re.
medy ; and such in reality it appears to he. It hassne-
ceeded in cases of asihnra, shortness of breath, cough,
and other distressing .ifflctions of the chest; in CeiSei Of
, uneasiness, pain, and sense of tenderness and soretless in
the intetior, am& particularly at the pit of the stomach;
in rain arising from gravel, in partial and general
dropsy, in paralysis, in rheumatic affections, in occasional
and habitual kostivenesi, in pain in the head, and cold-
ness in the limbs and feet. It is found to expel worms
both in children and adults,- and not only the long
round worms, but the small white ones also. It has
• been successful in a case of ague. A poor woman of
the age of 77, had been suffering from a quotidian ague
of at least a fortnight's standing, when she began tile
mustard seed, taking 'two small , tea-spoonsful every
three-houts. The disease abated almost immediately,
and in two days was 'entirely subdued. She had also
for some years laboured under the consequences of a
very 'weak interior, avid had suffered greatly from habi-
tual costiveness, and extreme coldness in the extremities,
and in the stomach and bowels. Such was the sense of
coldness in the interior, that warm tea and broth afforded
no relief. After taking' the seed for a fortnight, all:
these uneasy symptoms, with some others, disappeared
and she is now enjoying as good a state of health as is
compatible with her advanced years. It is proper- to
add, that after the agile had been subdued, the seed was
taken only three times in the day.

When the seed is used as a remedy. for occasional
costiveness, it should be taken fasting, about an hour
before breakfast; and, generally speaking, a small table-
spoonful is the proper close. Wilt some constitutions
a tea-spoonful in the morning is sufficient, while others
require a second large dose to be taken at night. When
it is used as a remedy for the several diseases before
enumerated, it should be taken twice, thrice, and some-
times, though very rarely, four times in the day. The
patient should begin with two doses; taking the first
about an hour .before breakfast, and the second about
the 'same tinge after dinner. After the second or third
day, a third dose should be added, and taken at bed
time. The quantity in each dose must depend in some
degree on the effect produced on the bowels, which
should not be purged, but should be kept moderately
and uniformly open. No certain fixed rule can be pre-
sc:ibed- on this head. Generally speaking, three doses
in the day, each containing .two tea-spoonsful or a
dessert-spodhfol are found to be sufficient ; while,
with some constitutions a single tea-spoonful in each
dose will be too much, and. with others a dessert.
spoonful in each dose sill be tr.o little. When the
seed is given for the expulsion of wottnr, four doses
should be taken in the day, each containing two tea-
spoonsfuVor as mach as will moderately purge the
bowels. The seed is to be taken whole, and either
alone or:in a little water or other liquid, warm or cold;
' and it should be taken every day without intermission,
until the mot bid s) mptoms disappear, Or, in other words,
until health is restoted, as far as the age and circum-
stai.ces Of the patient will admit.
The rnustatd seed is valuable riot only as •a remedy
for disease, but as a means of preventing it. Of ifs
pother as a preventive, a very estiaordinary instance
has occurred. A friend of mine had for five or six
years previous to the laia, been regularly attacked with
hay-asthma in the months of June or July in each of
those yeats. The attacks were always violent, and for
the most part accompanied with some danger. And
such was the impression made on his constitution by the
di;ease, and the remedies resorted to (of which bleed-
ing and blistering were the chief ), that each illness led
to a long cenfinement to 'the house, extending to a
period of nearly alit ee months. In the early part of
the last year, he resolved to make a trial of the seed, in
order to prevent, if possible, a recurrence of the asthma ;
and in the month of Match in that year he began the
use of it, and thenceforward took it regularly every day
without intermission ; and the result was that lie escapetd
the disease. In November last be informed me, that
from the time when he first took the seed, his health
• had not only never been interrupted by illiset:s of any
kind; but had been progressively improving : and he
further assured me that he did not recollect that he had
ever enjoyed so good a state of health as at that time.
It is to be observed in favnur of the mustard seed,
that it always produces some, and very frequently a
considerable degree Of relief, in. a very short time, even
in the course ut a week, and in marry instances, in two
or three days. And since it has not beetanecessary in
any case to increase the quantity taken,,it is presumed
that the seed does not lose its efficacy by familiarity
with the constitution. A. circumstance also which stamps
A particular value on it is, that, generally speaking, it
appears to obviate the effects of siadtien exposure to cold,
and is thus probably in no small degree a protection
against that host of evils which flow from our very
variable and uncertain climate. It seems peculiarly
adapted bath to infancy and old age. It enables the,
young to contend with the morbid debility ftequently,
• attaching to their tender years, and it supports the aged
under the pressure of infirmities generally annexed to
decliningiife. When taken by the former, it occasion-
ally-thigvaout a-considerable eruption on the skin ; a
• Jesuit which- has never failed to promote the general
health of the chird. Perhaps it may be. serviceable
as an anti-scot botic •and general put ifier of the blood:
and:amity reasonably be. questioned whether there exists
a safer or mote effectual means cf regaining strength,
attor. thevloss of it 116 in severe illness.
.To the poor it' is invaluable in every point of view.

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