AGUE

Symptoms:

A malarial fever which is attended by paroxysmal and recurrent chills.

Cause:

This is a condition of malnutrition and poor blood circulation.

Herbal aids:

Moist heat and profuse perspiration or sweating with diaphoretics are needed, (yarrow is one of the best).  Tonic or alterative herbs (Brigham tea, burdock, ginseng) must be used to build up the body, with special attention to a proper, healthful diet.

Useful herbs:

Avens, bayberry bark, broom, butternut bark, camomile, common holly, dogwood bark, gentian root, Irish moss, Jesuit's bark, oak bark, Peruvian bark, prickly ash bark, smartweed, sorrel, sumael (bark or root), tansy, tormentil root, tulip tree bark, vervain, willow, wormwood, yellow bearsfoot root.