Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

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FAMILY HERBAL.
of small lumps, fastened together by filament.
This root is the part most used ; it is good in fits
of the gravel,
for it promotes urine
greatly and
safely.
For this purpose the juice should be given,,
or a strong decoction "of the fresh root. When
dried it may be given in powder to stop the whites
and purgings, it i a gentle and safe astringent.
There are several other plan(s called in English
dropworts, which are very different in their qualities,
and one of thern is poisonous in a terrible
degree; this last is called hemlock dropwort; care
must therefore be taken that the right kind is used,
but this is sufficiently different from all the others.
The flower is composed of six little leaves, and is
full of yellow threads in the middle ;
the flowers of
all the others are composed only of five leaves each.
They are all umbelliferous plants, but this is not;
the flowers grow in clusters, but not in umbels :
Ihey grow like those of sweet.
the^ ulmaria or meadow
Duck-weed. Lcnticula.
A SMALL green herb, consisting of single, little
roundish leaves, which float upon the surface of
the water, and send their roots into it for nourish-
ment, without sticking them into the mud. It is
the small green
waters
herb that
in summer.
covers almost all our
There are two other
standing
kinds of it, one with smaller leaves and many fibres
from each, another with only one fibre from each
leaf: both these are green all over ; and a third
kind with larger leaves, which are purple under-
neath, but all these have the -nmc virtue, and it
is no matter which is taken. The juice is to be
given ; and it is to be continued for several days.
It works powerfully by mine, and opens ebstrue*-