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whey. A table-spoonful of the expressed juice * is useful in 

 allaying nervous palpitation of the heart. A very agreeable 

 conserve is made by beating up the fresh leaves with twice 

 their weight of loaf sugar in a marble mortar. A syrup and 

 an extract have also a place in some foreign pharmacopoeias. 

 The crystallized salt or binoxalate of potass, dissolved in water 

 with a little sugar, forms a pleasant drink resembling lemonade. 

 The root is not now employed, but from its pleasant astrin- 

 gency, we should consider it a useful adjunct to the prepara- 

 tions of the herb, especially in diarrhoea, and for external uses. 

 It imparts a beautiful red colour to the preparations into which 

 it enters. 



* To obtain the juice, the recent plant should be bruised in a marble 

 mortar, then expressed, allowed to settle, and should then be poured off 

 into a bottle with a small quantity of spirit, well corked, and kept in a cool 

 place. 



