228 The Useful Family Herbal. 
The Common Mattow. 
MAL-V A. 
A. Wild Plant, every where about our Hedges, 
Fields, and Gardens. It is one among ma+ 
ny Inftances, that God has made the moft ufeful — 
Plants, the moftcommon: The Mallow grows 
three or four Feet high. The Stalk is round, 
thick, and ftrong. The Leaves are roundifh, 
but indented and divided at the Edges. The 
Flowers aré numerous, large, and red. The 
Root is long and white, of a firm, tough Sub- 
ftance, and not difagreeable Taite. ; 
The whole Plant is ufed, but the Root has moft 
Virtue. The Leaves dried, or fréfh, ate put in 
Décoétions for Glifters; and the Root may be 
dried, for it retains a great deal of Virtue, butit 
is beft fréth, and fhould be chofen when there are — 
only Leaves growing from it, not a Stalk. [eis — 
to be boiled in Water, and the Decoétion may be — 
made very ftrong, for there is nothing difagree- 
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_ able in the Tafte : It is to be drank in Quantities 
and is excellent to promote Urine, and to takeoff 
the Strangury. It is good alfo in the fame Man- _ 
ner, againft fharp Humours in the Bowels, and 
for the Gravel. 2 
_ There is a little Kind 6f Mallow, that has 
whitifh Flowers, and lies flat upon the Ground. 
This is of a more pléafant Tafte, than the com- 
mon Mallow, and has'the fame Virtues. A Tet — 
made: of the Roots and Tops of this, is very 
‘agreeable to the Tafte, and is excellent for pro 
moting the Difcharges by Urine. ee 
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