Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common corruption of vervain.
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Examples
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After the bowels are well cleansed, the patient should take the diuretic pill night and morning, three for a dose, or more if the constitution of the patient requires it; also drink bitters by putting a table spoonful of steeldust, and about four ounces of vervine root, into a half gallon of good spirits; of these bitters the patient should drink three or four times a day what the stomach will bear.
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In many instances a tea of flaxseed, slippery-elm, comfrey or vervine will entirely relieve it in a short time.
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I have known many cases of this disorder, among children, cured by the free use of a tea of vervine root, which grows in such abundance about our yards.
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