The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-08-29
The Back Yard Drug Store

The Back Yard Drug Store
MOTHER NATURE HAS A BALM FOR EVERY
WOUND.
The City Drug Store Is q Very Dream
Of Luxury but In Our Back Yard
Nature Has IN Apothecary Shop
Where She Dispenses at Small Ex.
pense Soothing Balms for All OUT
Affllctions-Mauy Diseases Cured
by Common Plants and Herbs.
highly priced of all our town con-
veniences, and with its great plate
glass windows, its gorgeous bottles,
its tall soda-water fountain and gayly
painted boxes. is a very dream OF
luxury to the ordinary beholder.
But, in our back yard we have a drug
store made by Mother Nature, where
we may find balm for all our wounds
at small expense of time and money.
For she has chemistry OF her own,
a secret charm, a relief for all our
bodily ills, as we'll as comfort for our
dropping spirits. She offers many
treasures to those who study the
secrets of her healing or delve into
her mysteries.
Many common plants and fragrant
herbs possess rare curative proper
ties, and may be cultivated in our
back yard at a very trifling cost. And
if we would 60 to nature how gladly
would she offer us rich stores OF
health and happiness.
In our back yard drug store We find
first the sweet smelling verbena which
makes an infusion that will cure sore
throat and also heal sunburn and
blister.
The leaves of our sunhowers have
all the virtues of quinine. A tincture
can be made by sleeping them in
brandy and small quantity of it
will brace you up and give you a
ravenous appetite. A larger quantity
will cure neuralgia or allay 4 fever,
if your happen to be suffering from
typhoid.
Balm is the most fragrant of herbs.
1t making cooling, pleasant drink,
is antispasmodic and safe remedy
for insomnia and nervousness.
The fennel which we grow in
kitchen gardens to flavor sauces, will
make man strong and give him
courage. The ancients were won't to
offer it's bitter wine to cheer the
hearts of soldiers and heroes.
Comomile is worth cultivating for
its pleasant and refreshing odor, but
is also valuable remedy. No finer
stimulant can be found for languid
stomach than we'll brewed comomile
tea. II you make a tincture with
spirits Of wine it will cure your neu-
ralgia, while mild infusion is An ex-
cellent thing to give to irritable and
restless children.
Catnip, too, we must have. 1t is
good for cats and babies, and for
older people as we'll. How could we
cure the collie without it, and make
the young infant sleep with peace? ?
1t also cures nervous headache and
hysteria. Calamus, too, is an aro-
matte stimulant and tonic. good for
babies. instead of Mrs. Winslow and
her soothing syrup.
You must plant blackberry bushes
in your back yard, as much for their
good healing qualities as for their
delicious berries. If you eat the
young shoot they will harden your
gums, if you make a decoction of the
leaves, you will have q fine remedy
for whooping cough. For ordinary
sore throat there is nothing better
than blackberry jam, and for diar'
rhea, no surer cure than black.
berry cordial, we'll made with plenty
of spice.
The common burdock is an old
time healer-the root is made into al
infusion that cures skin disease, boils
old sores, letters and other similal
troubles.
The pretty cowslip is a most usefu
plant. In England it is made into I
wine that has been praised by man,
a traveller. If you are restless, TAX
some of the powdered root, and i
will make you a rival of the Sever
Sleepers. II you want to do som
tall climbing and don't feel you
nerves quite up to the mark, boi
some cowslips in ale and take fe,
draughts. You will find yourself a
calm as the boy that stood on th
burning deck, or Blondia when h
crossed Niagara on wire rope.
If you are fighter you must rails
some white bryony. It's pale yello'
flowers and bright red berries wi
give you courage. while an infusio
OF the root will cure any bruises yo
may gain by being too pugilistic.
1 Borage is we'll known medicina
herb. 1t is used by the French as a
antidote TO melancholy. 1t has
magic power to soothe the trouble
breast and make one feel at peac
with all the world.
The queer little colt's-foot has
pleasant smell, and is a cure 10
asthma. You can make it int
cigarettes or t.put it into your pip
,, and smoke it. and will give instar
relief.
The marygold, flower Of the sur
favorite Of Shakespeare, who mer
tions it in almost every play, as
plant of many virtues. 1t raise
ones spirits after . marvelou
: fashions, it cures the tormentin
measles, it is good for lung trouble.
and if quickly rubbed upon a be-
+ sting will at once take away th
l pain.
: The gorgeous dandelion, beloved
: little children all over the world.
good for salad and for medicine. A
infusion OF its roots is . tonic and
cure for disordered liver.
And we must have the the gracef,
hop vine.. with its clusters Of rar
>, green blossoms. When dried ar
: made into mild infusion, they wi
N relieve nervousness and soothe pai
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