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Among the first, my notes mention the following: Convolvulus cantabrica, or flax-leaved bindweed; Lotus symmetricus, or bird's-foot trefoil; Teucrium polium, or poly; and the flowery heads of the Phragmites communis, or common reed.
These qualities sufficiently point out the uses to which this plant might be applied; at present, it is little otherwise employed than in cephalic snuffs. TEUCRIUM Chamaedrys. GERMANDER. Herb. D. The leaves, tops, and seeds, have a bitter taste, with some degree of astringency and aromatic flavour.
Some have had a great opinion of it in hysteric disorders, particularly those proceeding from a deficiency or suppression of the usual course of nature. TEUCRIUM Marum. CAT THYME. Herb.
Water elevates their flavour in distillation; and rectified spirit extracts it by infusion. They have been recommended in hysteric cases. TEUCRIUM Chamaepitys. GROUND PINE. The Leaves. These are recommended as aperient and vulnerary, as also in gouty and rheumatic pains. THYMUS vulgaris. THYME. The Leaves and Flowers.
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