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2 Bevery part of the plant v7 a faint difagreeable fmell, refembling | 
that of common elder, but ftronger and more ungrateful; and when 
taken into the ftomach manifefts a greater fhare of active power. 
The root of the Ebulus, which is white, flefhy, and of a naufeous 
bitter tafte, was formerly very generally employed in dropfies. A- 
decoétion of two drams of it, or a {mall quantity of its expreffed juice, 
promotes both the alvine and urinary difcharges ; and if the decoc- — 
tion is prepared from the bark of the freth root, its a@tivity is fo much 
increafed, that it commonly proves both emetic and cathartic. 
The inner bark of the ftalk, when recent, is equally powerful in’ 
evacuating the prime viz; and its effects, as a diuretic, on the 
teftimony of Dr. Brocklefby,* were found to bg very confiderable ; 
but its operation is fo violent and. precarious, that it is now very 
rarely employed. 
The berries, in their recent ftate, according to Seaipoli prove a 
gentle cathartic, though Haller * fays that he never experienced this 
effe& from their ufe. 
The feeds are faid to be diuretic, and to bine been: given with 
advantage in. dropfical complaints; they alfo afford an oil, which — 
Haller applied with fuccefs in painful affetions of the joints. — 
_ The leaves,’ boiled in wine, and formed-into a cataplafm, have — 
been recommended in France as a difcutient application to contufions 
and tumours. : 
es Oecon. & Med. pik pe 277. : 
b Flor. Carn. | © Hift. Stirp. Helv. n. 671. 
« ‘The odes of the green leaves drives away mice from granarics ; and the Silcfane 
ftrew thefe leaves where their pigs lie, eg a perfuafion that net prevent fome of the 
difeafes to which thefe animals are liable, ‘ 
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