Definition of "moccasin flower" []

• See lady's slipper. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "-- Take of yellow moccasin flower root six ounces, ginseng one ounce, agrimony one ounce, nutmeg I ounce; pulverize all these ingredients, and mix them well together."
• "One of the best nervines in Botanical Materia Medica is the root of the moccasin flower in doses of a tea-spoonful in warm water, repeated at discretion."
• "To prevent a return of the fit, keep the bowels open, take a chalybeat pill morning and night, and drink a tea made by putting a tea-spoonful of powdered mistletoe (taken from the white-oak tree) and a tea-spoonful of the powdered root of the moccasin flower into a pint of boiling water."