Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

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at the edges, and of a yellowish green colour ; the
stalks arc round and firm, and the leaves that grow
o ) them are like those from the root, but smaller :
the flowers stand at the tops
of the stalks and bran-
ches, they are blue, and in shape and structure like
those of dandelion : they are very beautiful.
Tiie juice of endive maybe taken with great
advantages as medicine ; it cools the stomach,
and operates by urine very powerfully ; it also
opens obstructions of the viscera. It is good
against the jaundice, and constantly taken for some
time, against the scurvy.
Ervngo, Eryngium.
A WILD plant, which grows with us by tbe sea
side, and is kept alio in gardens, because of its
virtues. It is, prickly like a thistle, and the
whole plant appears not green, but whitish. The
'talk is firm, woody, round, striated, and thick,
not very upright, branched, and spread irregularly
about. The leaves are small, and of a
pale bluish green, approaching to white ; they
are broad, oblong, and jagged and prickly. The
iiowers grow in little heads at the tops of the
stalks, and there stands a circle of small leaves under
them. The flowers, separately taken, are small,
and of a pale greenish white, but the head of them
is tolerably large. The root is long and slender,
and of a pleasant taste.
This is the part used ; the best is way to take
them candied ; they are good against coughs, and
tveaknese- of all kinds. They have also caused
noble virtues, as a diuretic, and are good against
the ; jaunuice for thi- last purpose a decoction
made from the fresh roots is best, The) are bal-
samic as well as diuretic,