Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-20
ALwAlo lane MOTHERS ADVICE.
Mothers Medicine Chest

When we look back to childhood and
think OF what mother advised, we feel
pretty certain that she advised what was
right from her own experience. She
inherited later IN her instinct OF mother
hood knowledge Of childish ailments and
o certain class OF remedies that she knew
we'll and their effects. Experience after
all IL the best teacher. Most mothers
know as well as doctors, and often better.
what ais q young girl on the threshold
OF young womanhood and what she
mothers have recommended to ailin9
girls prescription made from well.
known native, medicinal plants. Iady's
Slipper root, Golden Seal root Black Co
hosh root, Unicorn root, Blue Cohosh root
and chemically pure glycerine make one
OF the best prescriptions for the period
lcal troubles and Affections which visit
womankind az one time or another.
Prof. y. Ellingwood. NJ. d., of Bennett
Medical College, says OF Lady's Slipper
root: ut exercises special Influence upon
nervous conditions, depending upon dis
orders OF the feminine organs - relieves
pain, restlessness and nervousness Prof.
Jno. NJ Scndder,. NJ. D., says Of the same
root, ut Is valuable In all cases OF
nervous excltabillty or irrltabilIty.n OF
Golden Seal root. Edwin NJ. Hale. NJ. d.,
Professor Of Mdterid Medica at Hahne.
mann Medical College, Chicago, says I:
In its general effects on the system
there Is no medicine in use about which
there is such general unanimity OF opin-
ion. IL Is universally regarded as a
tonic useful In all debilitated states. y
Prof. +. Ellingood, NJ. d., author Of "A
Treatise on Matertd Mcdicd and Thera
peutlcs, says OF Golden Seal root: ut Is
H.,
lronbh OF Black Cohosh root, Prot
Jno. NJ. King, M. D., author OF q Women
and Her Diseases says: upon the re-
productive organs IL exerts specific
Influence, promoting regularity. In dys-
menorrhGa painful periods), II Is sur
passed by no other drug, being OF the
greatest utility In irritative and conges-
tive conditions, for dragging pains re-
sembling the pains Of rheumatism and
for side ache" OF Unicorn root the
AMERICAN DIsPENsAToRy says. at is
one Of our most valuab BILE agents, acting
as a uterine tonic, and gradually remov-
ing abnormal conditions, while at the
same time II imparts tone and vlgor to
the reproductive organs, hence 1t Is much
used In leucorrh1a, amenorrhGa Sup
pressed periodsh dysmenorrhGa painful
periods, ETC.
DR.. John Fyfe, Editor Of the Eclectic
Medical Review" says OF Unicorn root
(Helonias Dioica), one Of the chief ingre.
dents OF DIR. Pierce's Favorite Pre-.
scrption.
A remedy which Invariably acts as
a uterine invigorator and always favors
q condition which makes for normal
activity OF the entire reproductive sys-
TEN, cannot fail TO be OF great useful
ness and Of the utmost Importance to the
general practitioner OF medicine. In
Helonias we have medicament which
more fully answers the above purposes
than any other drug lcith mhtch / am
acquainted. In the treatment OF diseases
peculiar TO women 1t is seldom that a
case Is seen which does not present some
indication for this remedial agent
HI continues. THelonas Unicorn root
through its tonic and Alternative inHu.
ence acts equally well In amenorrhpa
compressed menstruationl and In menor-
rhagia ttiooding or profuse menstruation).
1t is especially called for in cases OF
nmenorrhpa which are accompanied by
general debility and an atomic (weak)
condition OF the digestive organs, as IL
Increases the appetite and promotes d.
gestion and assimilation. When there
j. atony tweakness) OF the generative
organs and a tendency to miscarriage its
tonic influence upon the sexual system