90 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 
“i. The conserve made of the fruit and sugar performeth all 
those things before remembered, but with better force and 
success. 
“‘}'. The roots of the tree, steeped for certain days together in 
strong lie, made with ashes of the ash-tree, and the hair often 
moistened therewith, makes it yellow. 
““G. The bark of the root is also used in medicine for the 
jaundice, and that with good success” (Gerarde, p. 1326). 
In Quincey’s Pharmacopmia Offcinalis, 1742, p. 147, he says, 
the fruit of the Barberry is useful in diarrheas and dysentery, and 
the bark for jaundice and other distempers, from foulness and 
obstruction of the viscera. It is likewise, for the same purposes, 
an ingredient in many of the medicated ales which are publicly 
sold. 
The inner bark of the stem, infused in beer, has the reputa- 
tion of curing the jaundice. 
With the assistance of alum, it dyes linen a beautiful yellow. 
The roots boiled in lye, dye wool yellow. In Poland it is used, 
from its astringent qualities, to tan leather, and at the same time 
dyes it a most beautiful yellow. 
The acid present in the Barberry is the oxalic, and it renders 
the berries so sour that birds, swine, and horses will refuse 
it, but kine, sheep, and goats will eat of it. 
The Barberry has been said to mildew corn growing in its 
neighbourhood ; this, however, has been proved to be fallacious. 
There is a parasite often on the leaves of this shrub, the Lysiphe 
berberides, frequently covering the whole surface of the leaves 
with a thin, white substance, which perhaps may have a perni- 
cious influence on corn growing in the neighbourhood, but it is 
not at all certain. 
Berberis, is a corruption of Amerberys, the Arabic name of 
the fruit. 
Tt was used as a lithontriptic, styptic, and alexipharmic, ac- 
cording to Badigorius, Oribasius, Mesne, and others. Serapion 
(De Simpl. 229) recommends it as cooling and incisive, and of 
