?G6 FAMILY HERBAL. 



deep blue colour., and each is composed of a number 

 of smaller ilosucles, collected into a head. The root 

 is long and brown. 



The leaves growing 1 from the root are to be gathered 

 for use before the stalks appear. They are best 

 fresh. A strong infusion of them is good against 

 asthmas, and difficulty of breathing, and the same 

 infusion made into syrup, is good against coughs. 

 The flowers are said to be cordial, and an infusion 

 of them to promote sweat, and carry off fevers, but this 

 is less authentic ; the juice externally applied is good 

 against foulnesses of the skin. 



Scammoxy Plant. Scammonia 



A (LiMinxG plant, native of the eastern 

 parts of the world. The stalks are numerous, 

 "Teen, slender, and angulated ; they are tive or six 

 ieet long, but unable to support themselves with- 

 out the help of bushes. The leaves stand irregular- 

 ly, and not very close to one another ; they are of 

 a triangular figure, and bright green colour, and 

 they stand upon long foot -stalks. The flowers 

 are large and bell-fashioned ; they resemble very 

 much those of our common little bind-weed being 

 whitish but they oftener have a yellowish than a red- 

 dish tinge. The root is a foot and a half long, and 

 as thick as a man's arm. full of a milky juice. They 

 wound the roots and catch the milky juice as it runs 

 out in shells ; and this when it is concreted into a 

 hard mass is the scammony we use. 



it is a rough purge, but a very powerful and 

 useful one. It is good against the rhumatic 

 pains, and wHl reach the seat of many disorders that 

 a common purge docs not etlect. However, it is 

 seldom given alone : and a great misfortune \> 

 that the compositions made with it are never to be 



