charcoal from local circle fire with stone, vegetation, Water & Earth cosmology

French Broad River

Hot Springs NC

seedpods of Sweetgum tree Liquidambar sp. are seen in the crevice between the stones and atop the ice indicating they have recently dropped...

Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.—Sweet-gum probably has virtues similar to the concrete juice of Styrax off. which see. It makes an excellent and agreeable ointment when melted with equal parts of lard or tallow, which I have found decidedly useful in hemorrhoids, psora, ringworm of the scalp, porrigo scutulata, and many other cutaneous affections; also in that indolent species of ulcer, known as "fever sores on the legs." In anal fistula, it maintains an increased discharge, softens the callosity of the walls of the sinus, and produces a normal result, and effects this without pain to the patient. If necessary, in fistula, a little creosote, or other stimulant may be added to it. This employment of sweet-gum is not generally known, and physicians would do well to avail themselves of its use in the above diseases. It is also used in chronic catarrh, coughs, and pulmonary affections. The dose internally is from 10 to 20 grains (J. King).

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