FAMILY HERBAL. • 13 



any of tliese forms it is an excellent medicine in 

 ail hjsteric complaints. It cures fits^ ami pro- 

 motes the menses, and the necessary evacuations 



delivery 



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ther kind of arrach also mentioned 



by medical writers^ and called garden arrach ; 

 it is an annusl raised from secd^ for the use of 

 the kitchen. It grows to a yard high^ and the 

 leaves are broad : those which grow from the 

 root have a liltle leaf aslo on each side of the base. 

 They are covered with a wet dust like theother 

 kind. These leaves are cooling and softening; 

 they are good in clysters^ hut (hey arc less used, 

 and less valuable than the other. 



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A VERY common plant under our hedges, and 

 more vulgarly called cuckowpini^ and, by the 

 children^ lord and lady. The root is of the 

 bigness and shape of a walnut^ brown on the 

 outside and white within^ and this^ as well as 

 the whole plant, is of a sharp and acrid taste. 

 This root lies deep. The leaves are large and 

 shaped like the fcfearded head of an arrovv^ of 

 a strong green colour, and sometimes spotted. 

 In April and May rise among these thick stalks, 

 supporting a very sir.gular kind of flower, the 

 poinial of which is long, thick, fle.shy, and of a 

 red or white colour, and the whtde surrounded 

 with a «:reen membranaceous case. Afterwards 

 this case and the pointal fall off, and there re- 

 mains only the stem supporting a quantity of 

 berries, which are ripe in autumn, and are then of 

 a fine red colour. 



The root is the part used. It is an excellent 



medicine in palsies. Half oce of the roots, fresh 



