The Litchfield County post., 1828-03-20

tram, Slch as ieeCnes, cuppIng, Gc.--the whole benefit resulting from the use of the l. verwort tea, period but little over two months, with my health and strength impro- ving-!mparts to me felicity truly grati- flying, and which desire to make known for the benefraof all affected similarly. All such exhort to give the Liverwort a fair trial, and be attentive to their diet; for have the best grounds for believing that it was reserved for the Liverwort, ,thro' the blessing of Divine Providence, to do | for me what all other expedients had failed to effect. And from the experience have had ot this healing plant, am of opinion that all those afflicted with that distressing 1 complaint, the obstruction of the urinal passages, should drink freely of the Liver wort tea; for as it acts powerfully on the kidneys and those passages, they certainly ] would find 1t to their advantage. In con- cluSion, l would observe, that l have, for the last sixteen months, rigidly adhered to a milk diet. have drank the Liverwort tea in its cold state, and have abstained | from all teas and coffees in warm state, 1 as well as every other stimulating draughts of all descriptions.
 JOHN CONNELL. Washington, Jan. 10, 1928.
 P. $. Directions for using the Liver- ,oOrt.-A double handful of the Liverwort after washing it clean is to be put in 0 sauce pan, and half gallon of boiling wa 1 ter poured on the same let the pan then remain on the hot embers, or the stove, and simmer for about an hour, then pour the whole into proper vessel to drisk out of. When cold, 1t may be drank as often as the taste or state of the stomach will admit. The keeping the leaves in the ves- sel while using is necessary to keep the same limpid. J. c.
 The following botanical description and remarks were drawn up by medical gen. tleman for the Christian Advocate S Jour- ual.
 |" It is a circumstance, says Mir. Bigelow, in his Florula Bostoniensis, ,not little per- picking to the student, that the first plant in genus without a calyx, should have calyx of three leaves. Lmnaus in associa,lng this plant with the Anemonies, considered the caiyx from its remoteness to be an in- volucrnm,and not perianlh. Leaves rad- lcal, on hairy petioleS, with three broad lobes. Peduncles and involucre hairy. Petals red. Thus elegant little plant is one ot the earliest visitors in the spring; flow ertng in sunny spots before the snow has l left the ground" 1t is. perennial. and and grows in the woods, and most abund- antly on the north side of hills. It may be found in almost every part of America, although it flowers in April according to the books, yet it may be gathered in February ,and is at present green and four ] iShing.
 The Liverwort is the Anemonie Hepa- tica of LlnneuS, belonging to his 18th class, Polandria, and in inclut ed in the 7th or- der of the class Polignia. It is called by the botanists Herba rinitatis, Jercorasia, , and Acknowledgements. IL is nearly l allied to the LIchen lsldndicus, or Iceland moss, but it has been long esteemed as su- 1 perior to it as an aPierient resolvent and antiscorbutic. It has penetrating though mild pungency and bitter taste, sinking as it were into the tongue. It is known to virtues, and has often been given both in the form of dried leaves in powder to he dose of half teaspoonful occasionally ,and in the form of tea prepared in the propor- lion of a handful of leaves to a quart of boiling water. When the water is poured on at boiling temperature, it ought to boil upwards of oftwentysor twenty-five min utes only in a covered vessel. This is to be drunk when cold, it being then of the color of Madeira wine, which is an evid- ence of its proper strength. It may be used as a common drink to the exclusion of tea or coffee, and accompanied by diet of milk and vegetables.
 So much noise has recently been made unjustly about the scull cap, Pipsisseway and Iceland moss, that is not wonderful that people should be incredulous with re- pect to any of the newspaper eulogies be- slowed upon these and other remedies par ticularly what we announce as specifics for incurable diseases" From some experi- ments, however, the writer has recently made with the Liverwort, he is of opinion that it possesses decidedly curative virtues in at least two species of consumption. The Phlhisis hoemoptica or bleeding from the lungs, and the Phthisis pituioSa or dis charge of muclus from the lungs. He has knownsin his own experience the advanta- ges of this remedy in these cases, and in- | iends shortly to communicate the result of