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HERBS.


All herbs should be carefully kept from the air. Herb tea, to do any
good, should be made _very strong_.

Herbs should be gathered while in blossom. If left till they have
gone to seed, the strength goes into the seed. Those who have a little
patch of ground, will do well to raise the most important herbs; and
those who have not, will do well to get them in quantities from some
friend in the country; for apothecaries make very great profit upon
them.

Sage is very useful both as a medicine, for the headache--when made
into tea--and for all kinds of stuffing, when dried and rubbed into
powder. It should be kept tight from the air.

Summer-savory is excellent to season soup, broth, and sausages. As a
medicine, it relieves the cholic. Pennyroyal and tansy are good for
the same medicinal purpose.

Green wormwood bruised is excellent for a fresh wound of any kind.
In winter, when wormwood is dry, it is necessary to soften it in warm
vinegar, or spirit, before it is bruised, and applied to the wound.