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It is a cooling gently restringent herb; and hence recommended in a lax state of the fibres as a corroborant. ANTIRRHINIUM Elatine. FLUELLIN. The Root, Bark, and Leaves. They were formerly accounted excellent vulneraries, and of great use for cleansing and healing old ulcers and cancerous sores: some have recommended them internally in leprous and scrophulous disorders; as also in hydropic cases.
The berries, which to the taste are gratefully acid, and moderately restringent, have been given with good success in bilious fluxes, and diseases proceeding from heat, acrimony, or thinness of the juices. BETONICA officinalis. WOOD BETONY. The Leaves. These and the flowers have an herbaceous, roughish, somewhat bitterish taste, accompanied with a very weak aromatic flavour.
HERNIARIA glabra. RUPTUREWORT. The Leaves. It is a very mild restringent, and may, in some degree, be serviceable in disorders proceeding from a weak flaccid state of the viscera: the virtue which it has been most celebrated for, it has little title to, that of curing hernias. HYPERICUM perforatum. ST. JOHN'S WORT. The Leaves and Flowers. Its taste is rough and bitterish; the smell disagreeable.
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