Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

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oriole plant appears like a naked shrub without
leaves or visible flowers.
It has heen supposed lately that coral is made
by small insects, but this is an error ; polypes live
in coral as worms in wood, but these don't make
the trees nor the other the plant. Coral is to be
reduced to fine powder, by grinding it on a marble
; and then it is given to stop purgings, to
destroy acid humours in the stomach, and to
sweeten the blood.
Probably
it They suppose also a cordial.
for all its real dicine.
uses, chalk is a better me-
There are several sorts of white oral, whichi
have been sometimes used in medicine ; but all allow
the red to be better, so that they are not kept
sn the shops.
Coralline. Coralluia.
A LITTLE sea plant frequent about our own
toasts and of a somewhat stony texture, but not
like the red or white coral. It grows to three
inches high, and is very much branched, and young
shoots arise also from different parts of the branches :
there are no leaves on it, nor visible flowers, but
the whole plant is composed of short joints. It is
commonly of a greenish or reddish colour, but
when it has been thrown a time upon the shores, it
bleaches and becomes white ; it naturally grows
to shells and pebbles. The best is the freshest, n*t
that which is bleached.
It is given to children as a remedy against worms ;
a scruple or half a dram for a dose.
Coriander. Coriandrum.
A SMALL plairt, cultivated in France and-
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