Weeds And Wild Flowers Their Uses Legends And Literature
Weeds And Wild Flowers Their Uses Legends And Literature
Caroline Catharine Wilkinson
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It is still applied, by the country people, to ulcerated sores, as it was in the time of Dios- 168 WILD FLOWERS. Corides, though I am not aware that it is now con- sidered "good against the bites of ser- pents" as he affirms it to be. A. Viridis is given in the old herbals as a remedy for chronic pains ; though whether this signifies any particular species, or whether it simply means the plant in a green state, I cannot tell. The following, how- ever, are the various maladies to which we know i...t to be familiarly applied : fevers (for which it is a favourite Canadian prescription), asthma, relaxation of the bronchial glands, cutaneous eruptions, weakness of the stomach, for which, as well as for jaundice, it is probably not without beneficial effect, agues, inflam- mations of the mouth, and haemorrhages for the stoppage of which the genuine old formula is of rather too appalling a character to be adopted in the nine- teenth century ; consisting, as it does, of " agrimony, pounded frogs, and human blood !
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