The Ufeful Family F 
flat: It is compofed of feveral fmaller Ears, =< 
ranged on the ae Sides of the Stalk, hee | 
Spikes are hairy. The Seed is round, and ce 
much like Millet, only fmaller. = 
_ The Seed is the only Part ufed. It is good 
-againft fharp Purgings, bloody Fluxes, and Spitting 
‘of Blood. 3 
The ParieRA BRAVA. 
PAREIRA BRAVA... 
: A Climbing Shrub. of South-America, the Root 
~” of which has lately been introduced into 
Medicine. It grows to twelve or fourteen Feet in 
: eee if there be Trees or Bufhes to fupport it, 
_elfe it lies upon the Ground, and is fhorter... The’ 
Stalks are woody, light, ‘and coveted with a 
rough Bark, which is ‘continually coming off in 
-fmall Flakes. The Leaves are large and. broad. 
_ The Flowers are fmall, and of a greenifh Colour; . 
the Berries are round, and when ripe black. 
c Root, is large, woody, and very long and. 
Creeping 
The Root is ufed. It is of a brownith Colour, 
Tough on the Surface, and woody, but loofe in its. 
Texture. It is to be given in Infufion. “It is an 
excellent Medicine in the Gravel, and in Sup- 
-Preffions of Urine, as alfo in the Quinzy, “and in” 
Pleurifies, and Peripneumonies. It works the 
-moft powerfully, and the moft fuddenly, by Urine, 
any Medicine: And is fo excellent in forcing 
away Gravel and fmall Stones, that fome have 
nded it a Remedy for the Stone, and faid it. 
would diffolve and break it. This is going too 
Tar; no Medicine has sie ee po has that 
_Effeét,, nor can it be fuppofed, that any can. 
Great Good has been aoe by thofe is ines. 
‘Which the Parliament pens of Mrs. At Dk 
