Lucas Land

leaves and small flowersMad-dog Skullcap

Scutellaria lateriflora

From Botanical Medicine

The American species with inconspicuous blue flowers in one-sided racemes, is one of the finest nervines ever discovered. In epilepsy, chorea, hysteria, convulsions, hydrophobia, St. Vitus's dance and nervous tension states, its action is invaluable. In nervous headaches, neuralgia and in headache arising from incessant coughing and pain, it offers one of the most suitable and reliable remedies.

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