S50 FAMILY HERBAL 



g^reat many thick fibres. It is of a very strong 

 and disagreeable smell. 



The root is used ; it is best dried and given in 

 powder^ or in infusion, It is an excellent medicine 

 in nervaus disorders. It is said that it will cur.e 

 the falling sickness^ but its good effects against head- 

 achsj low-spiritedness^ and tremblings of the limbs^. 

 are well known. 



The Vanilla Plant, Vanilla, 



A CLIMBING plant, native of America, U 



grows to thirty feet or more in lengthy but the 

 stalk is slender and weak^ and climbs upon trees to 

 support it. It is rounds striated, green, and tough. 



The 



ed irregularly ; 

 broad, and like 



those of the common plantain, of a dusky green, 

 and have high ribs. The flowers are small in shape 

 like a pea blossom, but of a greenish white colour. 

 The pods are long and flatted, of a brown colour^ 

 «)f a very fragrant smelly and full of exceedingly 

 small seeds. 



This pod is the part used ; it is a cordial and 

 lestorative ; it opens obstructions, and promotes the 

 menses ; it op*eratcs by urine, and by sweat, but it is 

 not much used. Smne put them into chocolate^ 

 lo give it a flavour^ and to make it more cordial 

 and restorative ; this is done in the grinding up the 

 Kuts to the cake, and we buv it bv the name of 



am 



Vervain. Vtrhena. 



A COMMON wild plant.about our path-ways^ 



"wHh slender spikes, and a few little (lowers. It is 



twa feet high ; the stalks are numerous^ square^ ve^y 



