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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Materia Medica on Button Snake-root

BUTTON SNAKE-ROOT
   The rhizome of LIATRIs SPICATA, W illd. Stimulant tonic, diure tic, antispasmodic, emmcnagogue. Employed in gonorrhea, gleet and nephritic diseases, as well as in colic and in dysmenorrhea.1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.