Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

2l FAMILY HERBAL.
are befit taken in infusion : they strengthen the stomach,
and are good against habitual colics :
they are
also good in head-achs, and in all nervous complaints ;
and they oj)en obstructions, and are good in the
jaumiice, and to promote the menses. Chymists sell
what tiiey call oil of origanum, but its commonly
an oil made from garden thyme., it is very acrid ;
a drop of it put upon lint, and laid to an aching tooth,
often gives ease.
iCretic Majoram. Origanum crcticum.
A beautiful plant, of the wild marjoram kind, fre-
quent wild in the east, and kept in our gardens.
It grows a foot high. The stalks are square, upright,
and brown. The leaves are oblong and broad : they
are of a whitish colour, and stand on long foot stalks :
there grow scaly heads at the tops of the branches, as
in the other kinds, and from these burst out the flowers,
which are little and white.
The tops are the part used : our druggists keep
them dry ; but they generally have lost so much
of their virtue, that the fresh tops of our own wild
majoram, or the dried ones of the last season, are
better.
Marigold. Calendula.
A plant too common in our kitchen gardens, to
need much description. It is a foot high. The stalks
are thick, angulated, and not very upright. The
leaves are
long, narrow at the base, and broader toward
the end. The flowers are large and yellow, and
they stand at the tops of the branches. The whole
plant is of a pale bluish green colour, and feels
clammy. The root is fibrous.
A tea made of the fresh gathered flowers of