Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 13
all hysteric complaints. It cures fits, and promotes
the menses, and the necessary evacuations after
delivery.
There is another kind of arrach also mentioned
by medical writers, and called garden arrach ; it Is
an annual raised from seed, for the use f the kitchen.
It grows to a yard high, and the leaves are broad :
those which grow from the root have a little leaf
also on ach side of the base. They
are covered
with a wet dust like the other kind. These leaves
are cooling and softening ; they are good in clysters,
but they are less used, and less valuable than the
other.
Aron. Arun.
A very common plant under our hedges, and
more vulgarly called cuckowpint, and, by the
children, lord and lady. The root is of the
bigness and shape of a walnut, brown on the
outside and white within, and this, as well as
the whole plant, is of a sharp and acrid taste.
This root lies deep. The leaves arc large and
shaped like the bearded head of an arrow, of a
strong green colour, and sometimes spotted. In
April and May rise among these thick stalks, sup-
porting a very singular kind of flower, the pointal
of which is lon^r, thick, fieshv, and of a red or
white colour, and the whole surrounded with a
green membranaceous case. Afterwards this case
and the pointal fall off, and there remains only
the stem supporting a quantity of berries, which
are ripe in autumn, and are then of a fine red
colour.
The root is the part used. It is an excellent
medicine in palsies. Half one of the roots, fresh