Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1885-06-19
The Herb Doctors Paradise.

United States Consul Wright, of San.
tos, Brazil, encloses in d letter to tho
state department notes upon the medici.
nal plants of that country. The COM
pilation is the work OF S. s. SCHNEIDER,
4 native.born citizen of the United
States, who is now in Brazil. From Mr..
Schindler's notes it appears that the
country abounds in herbal remedies, and
hat alvelos, the new cancer cure, is but
one of hundreds of plants possessing
properties of value, as yet almost un.
Snown to materia medica.
Alvelos Is a shrub, Mr.. Schindlei
writes, discovered by an eminent physi
,ian of Pernambuco to be specific fol
cancerous ulcers. The juice is a pow
erful caustic. Applied to cancer, it pro.
iuces an irritating effect, which in
creases to a strong Inflammation, and a.
length cicatrization takes place. The
manner of application Is this: A camel'i
hair brush is dipped into the juice
which is applied to the cancer and al
lowed to dry. Twenty.four hours after.
ward little lint dipped in water is ap
piled to the cancer, and In another TWEEN
four hours the juice of alvelos is triec
again. DR.. Velloso advises for a speedy
cure the application of the juice every
day, using an infusion of tobacco in
stead of the araica and water. This
course of treatment is more rapid. The
inflammation is much stronger, but car
be regulated by the physician according
to the nature of the cancer and its prox
~ To ,yst 10
says that the alve!os treatment haI
proven successful in every case of canoe
of the lips, tongue, nose and breas
where it has been tried.
Baycuru Mr.. SCHNEIDER says is a curl
Gus plant of Brazil, which buries itsel'
in the sand, number of leaves rising
above, seven inches long by two inche
wide. The flowers resemble a saxlfrage
The plant is sometimes for days to
gether covered by the sea. The root il
six to seven inches long, one inch thick,
and of tortuous shape. Externally it i:
chocolate brown, internally, flesh
colored. 1t is an unfailing rem
edy in all kinds of enlarge
ments and glandular swelings.
The juice of the fruit of the cajueiro
tree is one of the most powerful blood
purifiers known.
A decoction from the bark of the. root
OF the calunga schrub is a remedy fol
| dyspepsia and intermittent fevers.
The leaves of the camapa plant con
tain narcotic principle, and the juice
of the root and fruit is found excellent
for rheumatism and liver diseases
Boiled fruit of the arvore do pao tret
makes powerful poultice for ulcers.
The fruit of the cabacinho has an ad
mirable effect upon dropsy.
The most stubborn coughs yield to ,
tea made from leaves of malvarisct
shrubs
Papaw has been found to possess thu
property of destroying the false mem
branes of Group and diphtheria.
Papaine is another diphtheria cure.
Poracary is a sure antidote for bites o
snakes.
Sapucareira bark makes a decoctior
which seems to be natures remedy fo
kidney ailments.
, There are no less than 312 plants o.
trees in Brazil which possess strong med
icinal properties. Mr.. Schindler's cata
logue of them contains remedy fo
every i'll known to human flesh, and thu
wonder inspired in the reader is tina
oeople should ever die in that country