The Ufeful Family Herbal. 37 
W oop-BeTony. 
BETONICA SYLVESTRIS. 
A Common wild Herb, but of very great Virtue, 
It is frequent in our Woods and oe oe 
and flowers in June. The Stalks are alm 
anda Foot high, and the Flowers are pu < 
There grow many Leaves from the Root; they- 
have long Stalks, and are broad, above an Inch 
long, ofa a blackith green Colour ibn hairy, blunt 
at the Point, and indented about the Edges. 
The Stalks are fquare, of a dark Colour, hairy, 
and not very ftrong. The Leaves on them are 
very few, and very diftant; but they ftand two 
at a Joint, and are like the others. The Flowers . 
ftand at the Tops in Form of a kind of ols fhort 
Spike; they are {mall and Ic | 
of the Flowers of 
flower. It is excellent for Diforders of the F ead, 
and for all nervous Complaints. The habitual 
“Ule of it will cure the moft inveterate Head- 
achs. It may be taken as Tea or dried and 
powdered. Some mix it with Tobacco and {fmoak _ 
it, but this is a more uncertain Method. = 
There is a tall Plant with fmall ‘lowers 
- by Waters, thence and from” thes Shap 2 
f the Leaves called Water Betony, but it has 
none of the Virtues of this Plant; it is a kind — 
of Figwort and ptf he Vics of thar Plan 
