Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 273
tity of seeds, with a sweet and tart juice about
them.
The rind of the fruit is used, it is to be dried and
given in decoction ; it is a powerful astringent : it
stops purging* and bleedings of all kinds, and is good
against
the whites.
Wild Pomegranate Tree. Balaustia.'
A smaller tree than the former, but like it
in its manner of growth ; except that the branches
are more crooked and irregular, and are more
thorny. The leaves are oblong, small, and of a
bright green, and they are set in clusters towards
the end of the branches. The flowers are beau-
tiful, they are double like a rose, and of a line
purple.
The flowers are the part of the wild pomegranate
used in medicine ; our druggists keep then] am! call
them balaustines. They are given in powder or decoction
to stop purgings, bloody stools, and overflowings
of the menses. A strong infusion of them cures
ulcers in the mouth and throat, and is a good thing to
wash the mouth for fastening the teeth.
POMPKIN. PvpO.
A very large and straggling plant,
cultivated
by our poor people. The stalks are very long and
thick, but they lie upon the ground ; they are
angulated and rough. The leaves are extremely
.arge, and of a roundish figure, but cornered and
angulated, and they are of a deep green colour,
and rough to the touch. The flowers are verv
large, and yellow, of a bell like gulated
shape, but an-
at the mouth, and the fruit is of the melon
kind- only bigger and round ;
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of a deep green.