164 Lhe Ufeful Family Herbal. 
The Root is ufed. . It is fo pleafant inTatte, 
that it may be eaten in the Manner of Carrots, 
and other Roots at Table, but it exceeds them all 
in its Qualities. It is an excellent Reftorative, — 
_and will-do great Service to People after long IIl- 
nefies : The beft Way of giving it for this Pur- 
-pofe, is to boil it firft in Water, and then cutting 
it to Pieces, boil it again in Milk, whichistobe 
_tendered palatable in the ufual Way; it becomes” 
thus, a moft excellent Medicine, in the form. of 
Goats Rue. | ae: 
“GHELEG A: 
A Tall Plant, Native of Italy, but kept with us 
__» in Gardens. It grows a Yard high. The 
Stalks are round, ftriated, hollow, not very firm 
or ftrong, and of a pale green Colour: They-are 
_ very much branched,. and not altogether upright. 
_ The Leaves are long and large, each is compofed 
of feveral Pairs of fimaller Leaves, with anodd 
- One-at the End of the Rib; thefe are oblong, — 
narrow, and of a yellowifh green Colour, thin, 
and not at all indented at the Edges. The Flow- 
ers are imall, and of a bluifh and whitifh Colours 
they ftand a great many upon the fame Pedicle, 
in a drooping Pofture. . 
_ The whole Plant is ufed. It is to be gathered 
when juft come to Flower, and dried, and after- 
_ wards given -in Infufion: This gently promotes 
Sweat, and’is good in Fevers; fo much is trueof 
the Virtues of this Plant, b ich more has: 
been faid of Ghia ens ut much mo . 
hen 
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