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Solution. A Pint of its Decodion, and an Ounce 
of Butter and as much Sugar, mixt and given irt 
a Clyfter, is a Specific in Cholic Pains, if duly re- 
peated. Some for this Purpofe boil it in Milk, 
with Camomile, and then add the Sugar. This 
Herb is not only mixt with the Vulnerary Plants, 
in Broths, Potions, and Ptifans, but many drink 
it as a Tea, and find great Benefit by it ; its many 
rare Virtues challenge a far more general Ufe of it. 
Its Decodion, drank plentifully for fome Time, 
cured one of the Stone who had it lying in the Kid- 
nies fixteen Years. A Woman, who had been bar* 
ren many Years, drank the powdered Leaves irf 
its diftill’d Water for fome Days ^ fhe foon conceiv- 
ed, and communicated the Secret to feveral of her 
Female Acquaintance, in the like Circumftances, 
who ufed it as fhe did for fome Time, with like 
Succefs, for ten out of twelve conceived. This 
Water cured a Fiftula of the Breaft, which had 
eluded the Power of all other Remedies. Cloths 
dip’d in this Water cured the moft violent Pains 
and Inflammation of an Ulcer'of the Leg for many 
Years. Extracts of this Herb, and juniper Ber- 
ries, mixt, and given in Pills after the Ufe of fome 
Laxatives, and Aperitives, is a Sovereign Reme- 
dy in all Obftrudions of the Vifcera , and Difeafes 
of the Breaft: ; for it carries off the Morbid Matter 
by Urine. Linnen Cloths, wrung out of this Wa- 
ter, have fucceeded in curing dry or moift Scabs, 
when other Methods have failed in Children, efpe- 
cially if the Nurfe or Child at the fame Time drink 
a Decodion of Fumitory in Whey. The Tops 
and Flowers of the Herb may be preferred in 
Conferve, Syrup, or diftill’d Water. Schroder 
extols the Herb in Erofions, or Obftrudions of 
the Lungs and Spleen, in the Cholic, Confump- 
tion, Scab, Itch* Plague, and Wounds. A Decodion 
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