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PROPERTIES AND USES OF VEGETABLES. 



I would xmsh io give the true nature of all sorts ofvegeta^ 

 bles that I have mentioned in the foregoing ivork. 



CATNIP is a warm herb, of a diaphoretic or sweating na- 

 ture. 

 PENNEROYAL is much the same only more powerful. 



It retains a very powerful pungent oil. 

 SPEARMINT is pungent and hot, but is of an astringent 



nature. 

 CALAMINT is much the same but hot so strong. 

 HOARHOUND is very strengthening to the lungs, and 



is semewhat of a pectoral. It is excellent in a cough 



or stoppage in the stomach. 

 EVERLASTING, or Indian poesy, is a very balsamic 



herb, is very healings and cooling, and excellent in 



salves or ointments. 

 JOHNS WORT is much the same. 

 PEA BALM is a cooling, sweating herb, and is good in 



fevers and inflammations. 

 CAMMOMILE is a great restorative to the lungs, and 



promotes perspiration; it is good in salves and ointments 



to take away swellings. 

 MAY WEED is of a pectoral nature, and is good for a 



pain in the side. 

 GARDEN COLTSFOOT is a great restorative to the 



lungs, and is good in syrups for coughs. 

 MELILOT is good in salves and ointments for swellings 



and inflammations. It is mollifying and cooling, 

 SAGE is the greatest restorative to human nature of any 



herb that grows. 

 PARSLEY is very cooling and softening. 

 BLOODROOT is a powerful puke or purge ; steeped in 



spirits it will serve for a puke, and boiled in fair water 



it serves as a purge. 

 WILD JENTON is a strong purge boiled. 

 MANDRAKE ROOTS are an excellent physic dried and 



pounded. 

 CUMFREY and spikenard are so well known that they 



need no describing. 

 ELECAMPANE is good in coughs, yet it is an astring- 

 ent. 



