Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

UGQ FAMILY HERBAL.
pitch. And the whitish resin which is called thus,
or frankincense, and is a thing- quite di fie rent from
olibanum, or the tine incense, is the natural resin
(lowing from the branches of this tree, and hardening
into drops upon them, it does not differ much
from the common turpentine in its nature, but is
less offensive in smell.
The several kinds of pitch, tar, and resin, are
principally used in plaisters
and ointments. The
turpentine produced from this tree also, and called
common is turpentine, principally used in the
same manner, the finer turpentines being given
inwardly. These are procured from the turpentine
tree, the larch tree, and the silver fir. The
resin and the black are sometimes taken
yellow
inwardly in pills, and they are very good against
the whites, and the runnings after gonorrhoeas ;
hut for this purpose it is better to boil some bet-
ter sort of turpentine to the consistence and give it,
PioNr. P&onia.
A FLOWER common in our gardens, but of
great use as well as ornament. The common
double piony is not the kind used in medicine ;
this ie called the female piony ; the single flowered
one called the nude piony, is the right kind. This
grows two or three feet high. The stalk is round,
striated, and branched : the leaves are of a deep
Screen, and each composed of several others :
the flowers are very large, and of a deep purple,
with a green head in the middle. When they are
decayed, this head swells out into two or more
-;< d vessels, which are whitish and hairy* on the
outside, and red within, and full of black seeds,
i'lie root is composed of a number of longish or
ro uudidi lump-, connected by fibres to the main