Foreign Vegetables. 6 i 
We are not altogether certain of the Plant to 
which Zedoary belongs. Bale , after Breyn and 
Ray , fuppofes it to be the Malan-Kua , Ii. Malab . 
p. ii. 17. Bon-E'fiappo Braman : Cclchicum Zteylani- 
cum flore Viol^e^ odore et Colore Ephemeri Herman . 
Par ad. Bat. prod. 304. 
Another Species of Zedoary is mentioned by 
Herman , in his Catalogus Horti Lugduno-Batavi , un- 
der the Name of Zedoaria Zeylanica Camphoram 
redolens , which the Inhabitants of Ceylon call Haran- 
kaka. 
Zedoary being diddled with common Water 
yields a denfe and thick effential Oil, which con- 
cretes into the Form of a fine Camphore. It there- 
fore abounds with a fubtile effential Oil united with 
a very volatile acid Salt *, from whofe Combinati- 
on arifes this fine camphorous Refin •, which is en- 
veloped in a large Quantity of Earth, and to which 
the Virtues of the Root are owing. 
It is alexipharmack, redding Poifons, the Bites 
of venomous Animals, and the Plague. It effectu- 
ally provokes Sweat, and powerfully incides the 
thick tenacious Phlegm which duffs up the Lungs 
in an Adhma and difficult Refpiration, and pro- 
motes its Difcharge. It divides and relolves vifcid 
Serum dagnating in the Stomach and Intedines * 
difcuffes Wind, and relieves colick Pains thence 
aridng. It drengthens the Stomach, helps Con- 
coCtion, and dops Vomiting and Loofeneffes, by 
corroborating the relaxed Fibres, and increadng 
their Olcillations. When the Blood is become, as 
it were, vapid, and deditute of its Spirits, where- 
by the vital Fermentation is preferved, it invigo- 
rates the whole Mafs, fupplying it with a frefli 
Stock of fpirituous or aClive Particles : Whence it 
is often ferviceable, like other fine and volatile A- 
romaticks, in fcorbutick Affections, Apoplexies, 
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