268 The Useful Family Herbal. 
The Oil is the only Produce of this Tree ufed i 
Medicine, it is prefled out of the Fruit, and is 
excellent in Diforders of the Lungs, and againft 
Cholics, and Stoppages of Urine. But in the 
latter Cafes the Oil of fweet Almonds frefh prefied 
is preferable, and for the firft Linfeed Oil; fo that 
Oil of Olives, or as it is called fallad Oil is feldom 
riers in Medicine, unlefs thefe others cannot be 
serie. ON Ton. 
so CEPA 
Common Plant in ‘our Gardens, known at 
“™ Sight by its hollow tubular Leaves. It grows 
. two Feet and a half high. The Leaves are long, 
rounded, of the Thicknefs of a Man’s Finger, and 
hollow. The Stalk is round alfo, and has at the 
Top around Clufter of little Flowers, thefe are of - 
a mixed purplifh and greenifh Colour; and of a 
{trong Smell as has the whole Plant, 
_- The Root is the Part ufed, it is roundifh and 
-compofed of a great Multitude of Coats laid one 
over another. A Syrup made of the Juice of Oni- 
ons and Honey, is excellent for an Afthma, 
The OPoponax PLanT, 
ss OPOPONAX. 
: A Large and robuft Plant, of which we have 
~~ but imperfect Defcriptions: it is a Native of 
the Eatt, and has not been brought into Europe. 
It is faid to be eleven or twelve Feet high : The 
‘Stalk round, thick, and hollow. The Leaves 
very large, and each compofed of a vaft Number 
of fmaller fet upon a divided Stalk. The Flowers 
we are informed ftand in -very large round Clufters 
_at the Tops of the Stalks, and that the Seeds are 
