Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

3BJ FAMILY PEIR-BAL.
then th?se from the root. The flowers are very numerous.,
small, and white, with some spots of red. The
pods are thick, long, and spungy.
The juice of the radish roots fresh gathered, with
a little white wine, is an excellent remedy against
the gravel. Scarce any thing operates more
speedily by urine., or brings away little stones more
successfully.
Horse Radish. Raphanus rusticanus
A TLA.NT as well known in our gardens as the
other, and wild also in many places. The root is
very long, and of an exceedingly acrid taste, so that
it cannot be eaten as the other. The leaves are
two feet
long,
green colour,
and half a foot broad, of
blunt at the point, and
a deep
a lit-
tle indented at the edires : sometimes there are
o
leaves deeply cut and divided, but that is an
accidental varie f y The stalks are a yard high :
The leaves on them are very small and narrow, and
at the tops stand little white flowers, in long spikes :
these are followed little by
seldom flowers, and when
seed-vessels.
it docs, the
The plant
seeds scarce
ever ripen. It is propagated sufficiently
and wherever this is the case, nature is
by the root,
less careful
about seeds.
The juice of horse radish root operates very powerfully
by urine, and is good against
the
jaundice and
The root whole, or cut to is
pieces, put into
dropsy.
diet drink, to sweeten the blood ; and the eating fre-
quently and in (quantities, at table, is good against the
Jrheumatisni.
U vcwort. Jacobcc.
A ^'tD plant., very common in our pastures,