It clean fes $11 
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plotted Blood, by Falls or Bruifes. 
Wounds, Ulcers, and Sores. 
285. 
Sloe-tree. ( Prunus Sylveftris ) All its Parts 
are binding, cooling, and drying ; flop Bleeding 
at the Nofe, Mouth, Stool, Uterus , or by Urine, 
and all Fluxes of the Belly, and eafe Pains of the 
Sides, Bowels, and Back, from exceflive Purging. 
A Decodlion of the Root, Bark, or of the dry or 
green Sloes, is moft ufed. Conferve, or Syrup of 
Sloes, has the fame Effect. A diflill’d Water 
from the Flowers infufed in Sack, and drawn an 
the cold Still, eafes all Gnawings in the Sides, Heart, 
Stomach, or Bowels ; or Gripes or Pains in thofe 
Parts, if drank warm in fmall Dofes, when they 
are pained. A Decoblion of the Leaves is a good 
Gargle for fore Mouths or Throats, and to flop 
the Defluxion of Rheum on the Eyes, or other 
Parts ; to bathe the Head and Temples with, to 
cool the Heat and Inflammation of thofe Parts, or 
of the Head. The diflill’d Ample Water of the 
Flowers, or the thickened dried Juice of the Fruit, 
pr the Water of the unripe Berries *, or their Pulp, 
boiled ; or the Powder of the dried Leaves or 
Bark, do all cool, brace, bind, and flay all Fluxes, 
or Hemorrhages, or eafe their Pains. The Juice 
of the Fruit is a good Subflitute for the Juice of 
Acacia, and it is better than the Juice of Sumach, 
or Myrtles, which fome fubflitute. Some give 
their Raifin, or Elder, or other made Wines, the 
Colour and R.oughnefs of true foreign Wines, by- 
putting the Juice of the ripe, or near ripe Sloes. 
286. 
Solomon’s Seal. {P olygonatum) The 
Root is Vulnerary and Aflringent, flops all Fluxes, 
and 
