Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

INTRODUCTION. xvih
To the roots it is often proper to add a little
white wine in the bruising, and they will operate
the better for it. Thus, for instance, the juice
of the flower-de-luce root will not stay upon
many stomachs alone ; but with a little white wine
added in the
bruising, all becomes its effects are not the less
easy,
for the addition.
and
The
same addition may be made to some of the colder
herbs; and if a little sugar, and, upon occa-
sion, a few grains of powdered ginger be added,
there will be scarce any fear of the medicine dis-
agreeing with the stomach, and its effects will
be the same, as if it had been
alone.
bruised and pressed
Infusions arc naturally to be mentioned after
the juices,
for they are in many cases used to supply
their place. Juices can only be obtained from
fresh plants, and there arc times of the year when
the plants are not to be had in that state. Recourse
is then to be had to the shop, instead of
the field ; the plant whose juice cannot be had,
is there to be found dried and preserved ; and if
that has been done according to the preceding
directions, it retains a great part of its virtues ;
in this case it is to be cut to pieces, and hot wa-
ter being poured upon it, extracts so much of its
qualities, as to stand in the place
of the other.
Often, indeed, the virtues are the same : in some
plants they are greatest from the infusion ; but
then some others lose so much in drying, that
an infusion scarce has any thing. But it is not
only as a help in the place of the other, that
this preparation is to be used, for infusions are
very proper from many fresh herbs ; and are
of great virtue from many dry ones, of 4 which,
when fresh, the juice would have been worth
little,