. New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician [microform] : containing a complete system of practice on a plan entirely new, with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure. Medicine, Botanic; Herbs; Phytothérapie; Herbes. m \/: II (.///)/: /(> hi:.: OK\ laid dowji in grass the year Inifore: when jjrass is starce, it is eaten by cattle, and is hard to l)e fonnd when fnll grown. It is a wild
. New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician [microform] : containing a complete system of practice on a plan entirely new, with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure. Medicine, Botanic; Herbs; Phytothérapie; Herbes. m \/: II (.///)/: /(> hi:.: OK\ laid dowji in grass the year Inifore: when jjrass is starce, it is eaten by cattle, and is hard to l)e fonnd when fnll grown. It is a wild plant, and a native of this country; hut there is no doubt of its l)eing common to other countries. It may be transplanted and cultivated in gardens, and will l)e much larger and more vigorous than when growing wild. If .some stalks are left, it will sow itself, and probably may be pro- duced from the seed; but how long the seeds remain in the ground before tliey come up, I do not know, never having made any experiments to ascertain the fact. It is certain that it is produced from the seed, and there is no gotnl reason to suppcse that it may not be cultivated in gardens from the seed as well as other vegetables. I think it most probable, however, from the nature of the plant, that it will not come up till the .seeds have laid at least one winter in the ground. This plant is different in one very importdit particular from all others that I have a knowledge of, that the same quantity will produce the same effect in all stages of its growth, from its first appearance till it comes to maturity; but the Ijcst time for gathering it. as has before been men- tioned, is when the leaves and pods begin to turn yellow, for then the .seed is ripe, and you have all there can be of it. It .should then be cut and kept clean, and spread in a large chamber or loft to dry, wl'ere it is open to the air in the day time, and to be shut froii the damp air during the night. When perfectly dry, shake
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