Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL, 30?
because there is so much
perfectly depended upon,
difference in several parcels
of scammony, that they
seem hardly the same medicine, some are so very
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strong , and some so weak.
Garden Scurvy Grass. Cothlearia hortensis.
A common wild plant about our sea coasts,
but kept also in gardens for its virtues ; it is a foot
high : the stalks are round, weak, and green ; the
leaves that rise from the root make the most con-
siderable appearance ; they stand in a large tuft,
and are of a roundish figure, and a bright green
colour, tender, juicy, and supported on long and
slender foot-stalks. There are but few leaves on
the stalks, and they are not so round as those from
the root, but are a little angular and pointed.
The flowers stand at the tops of the stalks, in little
clusters ; they are white, small, and bright; they are
succeeded by short roundish seed-vessels.
The fresh leaves are used, and the best way of
all is to drink the pressed juice of them ; this is
excellent against the scurvy, and all other foulnesses
of the blood. It may be mixed with Seville
and should l>e
orange juice to make it pleasant,
token every day for six weeks or two months toge-
ther in spring.
Sea Scurvy Grass. Cochlcaria marina.
A common plant also about our sea coasts,
and by the sides of rivers, where the tide comes
The leaves are not so numerous as those of the other ;
and they are oblong, of a reddish green colour,
pointed at the ends, and indented at the edges in an
irregular manner they are considerably larger than
the*;. 1
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of garden scurvy grass, and moi fleshy. The