856 oitlpepsb'b complbtk herbal. 



for coaghsy catarrhs, distillatious of rheum and hoarsenesfii 

 Pills made with a little turpentine, gently loosens the bel' 

 ly. It resists cold poisons. Dropped into the ears, it 

 helps the singing and noise in them. 



STRAWBERRIES.-Y/Va^a^-ta Vesca,) 



This plant is so well known that it needs no description. 



Place, — It grows in woods, and is planted in gardens. 



Time. — It flowers in May, the fmit ripens soon after. 



Oovemment and VirtiLes, — Venus owns the herb. The 

 fruit when green, is cool and dry; but when ripe cool and 

 moist; the berries cool the liver, the blood, and the spleen, 

 or a hot choleric stomach ; refresh and comfort f am ting 

 spirits and quench thirst; they are good for inflammations, 

 yet it is best to refrain from them in a fever, lest by their 

 putrefying in the stomach, they increase the fits. The roots 

 and leaves boiled in wine and water, and drank, cool the 

 liver and blood, and assuage all inflammations in the reins 

 and bladder, provoke urine, and allay their heat and sharp- 

 nesa The same if drank, stays the bloody flux and wo- 

 mens' courses, and helps the swelling of the spleen. The 

 water of the berries carefully distilled, is a remedy and 

 cordial in the panting and beating of the heart, and good 

 for the jaundice, ^e juice dropped into foul ulcers, or 

 washed therewith, or the decoction of the herb and root, 

 cleanses and helps to cure them. Lotions and gargles for 

 sore mouths, or ulcers therein, or in the privy parts or 

 elsewhere, are made with the leaves and roots thereof ; it 

 is also good to fasten loose teeth, and to heal spongy gums. 

 It helps to stay catarrhs, or defluzious of rheum in the 

 mouth, throat, teeth, or eyes. The juice or water is sin- 

 gularly good for hot or in^amed eyes, if dropped into them, 

 or they bathed therewith. 



STRAWBERRY CmqVETOlL.--'(Potentilla Fraga- 

 riastrum,) (Fragaria Sterilit.) 



Detcrip. — The root is large, reddish, and woody, divided 

 at the the top into several heads, and has a few fibres. The 

 footstalks of the leaves are four inches long, tender, and 

 hairy. The leaves are broad, oblong, hairy, serrated, and 

 not unlike those of strawberry, but less, of the winged 

 kind, not fingered as in the ordinary Cinquefoils. The 

 stalk is rouu(^ firm, erect, about two and a half feet high 

 The flowers are numero"% large, and white. They stand at 



