Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

lit FAMILY HERBAL.
the plant, a very pleasant and excellent medicine in
the gravel ; it works powerfully by urine, and gives
ease in those colicy pains which frequently attend
upon the disorder.
Sharp-pointed Dock. Lapathum folio acuta,
A COMMON plant, like the ordinary dock, hut
somewhat handsomer, and distinguished by the
figure of its leaves, which are sharp-pointed, not
obtuse as in that, and are also somewhat narrower
and longer. The plant grows three foot high.
The stalks are erect, green, round, striated and
branched. The leaves are of a fine green, smooth,
neither crumpled on the surface, nor curled at the
edges, and have large ribs. The flowers are small,
at first greenish, then paler, and lastly, they dry and
become brown. The root is long, thick, and of a
tawny colour.
The root is the
gainst
part used, It is excellent a