106 §=6The Ufeful Family Herbal. 
This is an excellent Diuretic, fafe and yet very 
powerful. It is an Ingredient in Mrs. Stepbens’s 
Medicine, the Juice may be taken, and it is good 
for the Jaundice, and againft all inward Obftruc- 
tions, and againft the Scurvy ; the Leaves may 
alfo be eaten as Sallet, or dried and given in Dee | 
coction. 
CRoOSS-wORT. 
wtp eBies CRUCIATA. : 
A Very pretty wild Plant, but not very common: 
— a grows a Foot and an half high, The 
Stalks are fquare, hairy, weak, and of a pale 
Green, The Leaves are broad and fhort, they 
" ftand four at every Joint Star-fathioned upon the — 
Stalk. The Flowers are littleand yellow; they ftand- 
in Clufters round the Stalk at the Joints, rifir 
from the Infertion of the Leaves. Itis to be foun 
in dry Places, sn 
_ ,_ The whole Plant is to be gathered when begin+ 
"Ming to flower and dried. A ftrong Decoétion of 
od Reftringent and Styptic; it ftops- 
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Overflowings of the Men = ys | 
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