Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Sunflowers in Medicine. [ARTICLE]

Sunflowers in Medicine.

The common sunflower, a native of Peru and Mexico, is gaining favor in parts of Europe is a febrifuge. In Russia, where the plant is extensively cultivated for its edible seeds and Its oil, fever patients sleep upon beds of sunflower leaves, and a Russian physician experimenting on 100 children between 1 month and 12 years of age, has found that alcoholic extracts of the leaves aad flowers cure fever as speedily as quinine. .