Family Herbal - Electric Scotland

FAMILY HERBAL. 25
riers thorn stupid for some hours, but no ill con-
sequence
has attended this.
The Bay Thee. Laiirus.
THE bay is a native of Spain and Italy, where
it grows to a large tree : we keep it in gardens,
but it seldom rises to more than the figure
and height of a shrub with m. The wood i*
not strong but spongy and friable; the leaves remain
green all winter ; the bark of the large
branches is of a dusky brown, that of the twigs
reddish; the leaves are long and somewhat broad,
pointed at the end and : very fragrant the flower?
re very small and inconsiderable ; their colour
but are not re-
is whitish, they appear in May,
in the latter end of au-
garded : the berries are ripe
tumn, and are large and black, consisting of two
parts within the same skin.
The berries are dried, and are the part of the
tree mostly used ; but the leaves also have great
virtue. The berries are given in powder or in-
fusion ; they are good in obstructions, and in
cholics. They promote urine, and the evacuations
after delivery. The leaves are cordial and
good in ali nervous complaints. Paralytic people
would find great benefit from small doses of
them often repeated ; and four or live doses have
sometimes cured agues. They are to be put fresh
into an oven, and, when they are crisp, reduced to
powder.
Basil. Ocvmum vulgar e majus.
BASIL i* a small herb, native of warmer
countries, but not uncommon in our gardens ;
it is bushy and branched ; the stalks are square,
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