(From a field, and alone). So named from being the chief of all wild herbs. Common agrimony, called also eupatorium Graecorum, vel verum, and hociamsanun. A. eupatoria Lin. Sp. Pi. 643.

The leaves have a slight bitterish aromatic taste, the flowers are small, stronger, and more agreeable; they give out their virtues to water and to spirit of wine.

It is best used while fresh; and the tops, before the flowers are formed, possess the greatest virtue. A conserve is the best form of preparation; though the dry powder has been recommended: an infusion in water or whey is good, though now disused.

It is mildly corroborant, and recommended in humoral asthmas. It may be of some service in a relaxed . state of the bronchial glands. It is used by Canadians in burning fevers, and recommended by Hill in jaundice; and by others in visceral obstructions. Alston advises it in cutaneous eruptions; and it has been considered as useful in haemorrhages. On the whole, it is only a weak, inefficacious, astringent.

The dose is 3 i. or more. The common hemp, and Dutch agrimony, are called eupatorium; hemp agrimony, Bldens.