600 ORD. XXXVII. Dumose. SAMBUCUS EBULUS. 
Every part of the plant has a faint disagreeable smell, resem- 
bling that of common elder, but stronger and more ungrateful ; 
and when taken into the stomach manifests a greater share of 
active power. 
The root of the Ebulus, which is white fleshy, and of a nauseous 
bitter taste, was formerly very generally employed in dropsies. 
A decoction of two drams of it, or a small quantity of its expressed 
juice, promotes both the alvine and urinary discharges; and if the | 
decoction is prepared from the bark of the fresh root, its activity 
is so much increased, that it non proves both emetic and 
cathartic. 
The inner bark of the stalk, when recent, is equally powerful in 
evacuating the prime viz; and its effects, as a diuretic, on the 
testimony of Dr. Brocklesby,* were found to be very considerable ; 
but its operation is so violent and precarious, that it is now very 
rarely employed. Peas 
The berries, in their recent state, according to Scopoli,® prove a 
gentle cathartic, though Haller‘ says that he never experienced, 
this effect from their use. 
The seeds are said to be diuretic, and to have been given with 
advantage in dropsical complaints: they also afford an oil, which 
Haller applitd with success in painful affections of the joints. 
The leaves,’ boiled in wine, and formed into a cataplasm, have 
been recommended in France as a discutient application to con- . 
tusions and tumours. 
* See Occon. § Med. Observations. p. 277. 
. > Flor. Carn. 
* Hist. Stirp. Helo. n. 671. : 
4 The odour of the green leaves drives away mice from granaries; and the 
Silesians strew these leaves where their pigs lie, under a persuasion that they 
prevent some of the diseases to which these animals are liable. 
