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22 8 "the Ufeful Family Herbal 



The Common Mallow. 



M A L V A. 



Wild Plant, every where about our Hed 

 Fields, and Gardens. It 



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ny Inliances, that God has made the moll ufeful 

 Plants, the mofl common. The Mallow grov/s 

 three or four Feet high. The Stalk is round, 

 thick, and ftrong. The Leaves are roundilh, 

 but indented and divided at the Edges. Ihe 

 Flowers are numerous, large, and red. The 

 Root is long and white, of a firm, tough Sub- 

 ftance, and not difagreeable Tafte. 



The whole Plant is ufed, but the Root has molt 

 Virtue. The Leaves dried, or frelh, are put in 

 Decoftions for Glifters i and the Root may be 

 dried, for it retains a great deal of Virtue, but it 

 is bed frelh, and ihould be chofen when there are 

 only Leaves growing from it, not a Stalk. It is 

 to be boiled in Water, and the Decoftion may be 

 made very ftrong, for there is nothing difagree- 

 able in the Tafle : It is to be drank m Quantities, 

 and is excellent to promote Urine, and to take off 

 the Strangury. It is good alfo in the fame Man- 

 ner, againft fharp Humours in the Bowels, ana 



for the Gravel. , 



There is a little Kind of Mallow, that has 

 whitifh Flowers, and lies fiat upon the Ground. 

 This is of a more pleafant Talle, than the c^- 

 mon Mallow, and has the fame Virtues. A ic* 

 made of the Roots and Tops of this, is very 

 agreeable to the Tafte, and is excellent for pro- 

 moting the Difcharges by Urine. 



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