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Seeds eaten with Maize, make good cakes with honej, 

 put in bread to flavor it. Emulsion pectoral. Horses, 

 cattle and fowls grow fat on them. Leaves fine emol- 

 lient, thicken water like Sassafrine, very good for diar- 

 rhea and dysentery as common drink. Seeds give 90 

 per cent- of oil I mild, sweet, keeps manj years, fit for 

 food and lamps, laxative like Castor oil, equivalent and 

 better, not nauseous. 



SIC YOS ANGULATA, L, Bryony, Wild Cucumber. 



Root and seeds bitter, purgative, diuretic, eq. of Bryony 

 in dropsies, Canada to Mexico. 



^ SID A, L. Softy. Eq. of Malva. S. spinosa and rhom- 

 hifolia, used as tea in the west, leaves roasted first, good, 

 palatable and diuretic. 



SIDEROXYLON, Lin. Ironwood, Ttirlbay. Very 



hard wood, berries sweetish astringent, useful in diar- 

 rhea. 



SILENE, L* Wild Pink, Several sp. have a vermi- 

 fuge deleterious root, such as S. virginka, pennsylvani- 

 CGy caroliniana. Eq. Spigclia? 



SILPHIUM, L. Turpentine Sunflower. Several sp. 

 S. gummifer^ tcrebintlutceum^ undulatum^ Raf. reni- 

 forme^ Raf. produce by exudation and incision a fine 

 fragrant and bitterish gum like Frankincense, white or 

 amber color, chewed by Indians to sweeten breath and 

 clean teeth. 



SINAPIS, L. Mustard. Cult, and wild, 

 gra and alba eq. Leaves acrid antiscorbutic- Seeds 

 very active, contain fixed oil, acrid oil, sulphur, &c. Oil 

 by expression similar to rape oil, good for lamps ; in 

 India S.ramosa and dichoiojno c\x\t. for this oil. By dis- 



. tillation the acrid oil is evolved, it is the active principle. 



.Flour of mustard much used as condiment, but the abuse 

 produces dyspepsia, atrophy and palsy! Itiserrliine, ru- 

 befacient, in topical use j applied to the feet, forms Sina- 

 pisnes very useful revulsions in fevers- Otherwise stiraa- 

 tant, diuretic, antiscorbutic, useful in chronic diseases 

 of languor, dropsies, palsies, giddiness, pains in the 

 head, cachexy, lethargy, tinea, scurvy, &c. Externally 

 in chronic rlieumatism, palsy, nervous diseases. For- 

 merly and lately again praised as a panacea in asthisa, 

 gravel, chlorosis, dropsy, dyspepsia, &c-! the milder S. 



