. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 120 THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. country. It grows abundantly in fields, waysides, and waste places, and flowers from May to October. The whole plant, especially the root, abounds in mucilage. Pr(yperti€S and Uses.—It possesses the properties common to mucila- ginous herbs, and an infusion thereof forms an excellent demulcent in coughs, irritations of the air-passages, f
. The complete herbalist : or the people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies : describing the great curative properties found in the herbal Materia medica, Vegetable.; Botany, Medical.; Medicinal 120 THE COMPLETE HERBALIST. country. It grows abundantly in fields, waysides, and waste places, and flowers from May to October. The whole plant, especially the root, abounds in mucilage. Pr(yperti€S and Uses.—It possesses the properties common to mucila- ginous herbs, and an infusion thereof forms an excellent demulcent in coughs, irritations of the air-passages, flux, affections of the kidney and bladder, etc. In inflammatory conditions of the external parts, the bruised herb forms an excellent application, making, as it does, a natural emollient cataplasm. IMalva Rotundifolia, or Low-maUow, called by children, who are fond of eating the fruit, cheeses, possesses similar qualities. MAjSTDEAKE (Podophyllum Peltatum). CoiviMON Names. May-Apple, Wild Lemon, Raccoon-berry, Wild Mandrake. IVIedicinal Part. The root. Description. —This plant, which is illustrated by a cut, is an indigenoua perennial herb, with a jointed, dark-bro-wn root, about half the size of the finger, very fibrous, and internally yellow. The stem is simple, round, smooth, erect, about a foot high, di- viding at the top into two petioles, from three to six inches long, each supporting a leaf. The leaves are large, palmate, oftener cordate, smooth, yel- lowish-green on top, paler beneath. The flower is solitary in the fork of the stem, large, white, and somewhat fragrant. The fnlit is fleshy, of a lemon color, and in flavor resembles the strawberry. There is another plant called man- drake, but which is the Atropa Man- dragora, a plant belonging to the night-shade lamily. The cut I give of this plant is quite truthful. It is not used in medicine. It inhabits the shores of the Mediterranean, and found lurking in dark woods, in the gloomy thickets on the banks of slugg
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