culpspsr's complete hbrbai.. 85B 



qoAlity ; they are a remedy against a surfeit of mushrooms, if 

 baked under the embers and taken ; and being boiled and 

 applied warm, help the piles. Though leeks possess the qua- 

 lity of onions, they are not so powerfuL A syrup made of the 

 juice of onions and honey, isan excellent medicine in asthma- 

 tical complaints. Onions are good for cold watery humoun^ 

 but injurious to persons of bilious habit, affecting the head, 

 eyes, and stomach. When plentifully eaten, they procure 

 sleep, help digestion, cure acid belchinga, remove obstruc- 

 tions of tne viscera, increase the urinary secretions, and 

 promote insensible perspiration. Steeped all night in spring 

 water, and the infusion given to children to drink in the 

 morning fastiug, kills worms. Onion bruised, with the 

 addition of a little salt, and laid on fresh burns, draws out 

 the fire, and prevents them blistering. The use is fittest 

 for cold weatner, and for aged, phlegmatic people, whose 

 lungs are stuffed, and breathing short. 



OBACB^—(Atriplex Patula. 



Descrip. — Under the article Arrach, AtripleXy is describ- 

 ed a species of this herb. It grows to four feet high ; the 

 stalks are whitish, the leaves of a faint green, and the flow- 

 ers of a greenish white. The seeds are olive-coloured. 



Place, — It grows wild on waste land, but the seeds of the 

 manured kind are the best for use. 



Tinie, — It flowers in July ; the seed is ripe soon after. 



Oovemment and Virtuen. — It is under Venus. It may be 

 eaten soon after as salad ; but the virtues lie in the seed. 

 These are to be gathered when just ripe; for, if suffered to 

 stand longer, they lose part of their virtue. A pound of 

 these bruised, and put into three quarts of spirit, of 

 moderate strength, after standing six weeks, afford a light 

 and not unpleasaut tincture ; a tablespoonful of which, ta- 

 ken in a cup of water-gruel, has the same effect as a dose of 

 ipecacuanha, only that its operation is milder, and does not 

 bind the bowels afterwards. The patient should go to bed 

 after taking the dose, and a gentle sweat will follow, car- 

 rying off whatever ofiTending matter the motions have dis- 

 lodged ; and thus preventing long disease. It cures head- 

 aches, wandering pains, and the first attacks of rheuma- 

 tism. As some stomachs are harder to move than others, 

 If the first dose does not perform its of&ce, a second table- 

 spoonful may be taken without fear. 



