Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL.
A.
Acacia Tree. Acacia vera sive spina JEgyptiaca.
THE acacia is a large but not tall tree, with
composed
prickly branches : the leaves are winged, or
of several small ones set on each side a
middle rib ; and the flowers are yellow. The
-
trunk is thick, and the .
top spreading
The leaves are of a bluish green ; and the flowers
resemble in shape pea blossoms ; many of them
stand
together. These are succeeded by long
and flatted pods. The seeds contained in each
are from four to seven ; and the pod between
them is very small and narrow : the breadth is
where lie. they
The tree is frequent in Egypt, and there are
a great many other kinds of it. No part of the
acacia tree is kept in the shops ; but we have
from it two : drugs
1. The acacia
juice, and 2. The gum arabic.
The acacia juice, or suecus acacia?, is like liquorice
juice, hard and black. They bruise the unripe
pods and seeds, and press out the
juice which
they evaporate to this consistence. The gum
Arabic wozes out of the bark of the trunk and
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