Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

190 FAMILY HERBAL.
of Italy, and is frequent in our pardons. The trunk
is rugged, and the branches are covered with a
rouo-h bark, of a brownish colour, with a tinjre of
reddish. The leaves are an inch or more in length,
jextremely slender, and of a bluish green colour, and
they grow in little clusters, on different parts of the
branches. The flowers are inconsiderable, the fruit
is a cone, but very small. It is not bigger than a
little walnut.
The young leaves are boiled, and the liquor is
drank to promote urine, but this is an idle way of
getting at the virtues of the tree. Venice turpentiue
is produced from it, and this liquid resin contains
them all in perfection. They cut the trunk of
the tree deep, in the heat of summer, and the resin
flows out. This works powerfully by urine, and
is a noble balsam ;
it is good against the whites, and
to stop the running that often remains, from a clap
after all the virulence is removed ; but in this case
it must be given cautiously.
Larks' Spur. Delphinium.
A common flower in our gardens ; but not without
its virtues. It grows a yard high : the stalks are
round, upright, firm, and of a pale green. The
leaves are cut into a multitude of long, narrow, and
very fine divisions, and are of a deep green colour,
and the flowers which grow in long spikes at the
tops of the branches, are naturally blue, but often
red or white. They are moderately large, and have
a kind of spur behind.
must be boiled fresh
The leaves are used ; they
in water, and the decoction -
is good against the
]{ bleeding piles. stops
the hemorrhage, and at the
wme time cor'; the bodv, whereas too many of the
astringent medicines are heating.