229-232 The Common Aloes, Sorrel, Turnep, Wall-pepper.
229. The Common Aloes. Aloe vulgaris.
1. The Stalks grow about two or three Foot high, the Leaves are a whitish Green, and the Flowers a pale yellow.
2. It grows in Spain, Italy and the West Indies, flowring in the Spring.
3. The Aloes Hepatica of the Shops or the Barbadoes Aloes is made from this Plant. Aloes is a purging Medicine much in Use, and very beneficial to cold moist Constitutions, but is seldom given by it self unless it be to Children for ye Worms. It is a main Ingredient in most of the Officinal Pills, as also in ye Species Hiera Picra.
4. Greek, Αλοη. Latin, Aloe. Spanish, Hierva babosa. Italian, Aloe. French, Aloes. German, Bitter Aloes. Dutch, Aloe.
230. Sorrel. Acetosa.
1. The Stalks grow eight or ten Inches high, the Leaves are a grass Green, and the Flowers small and Staminous.
2. It grows in Fields and Meadows, flowring in May.
3. The Leaves are accounted cooling and cordial and very good in Fevers, resisting Putrefaction. The Root is esteem'd serviceable in the Scurvy & bilious Fluxes. The Seed is restringent, & is put into Diascordium & other binding Medicines.
4. Greek, Οξαλις. Latin, Oxalis & Acetosa pratensis. Spanish, Azedas. Italian, Acetosa. French, Saliette. German, Sawr Umpffer. Dutch, Veld Suringh.
231. Turnep. Rapum.
Also see #224. Wild Naven - #231. Turnep
1. The Stalks grow about three Foot high, the Leaves are a grass Green and the Flowers yellow.
2. It is sown in Fields and Gardens, flowring in April.
3. Turneps are accounted very wholesome and nourishing, but somewhat windy. A Syrup, made with slices of Turnep and brown Sugar Candy baked in an Oven, is commended as a good pectoral, and of great Service for Coughs and Consumptions.
4. Greek, Γογγυλη. Latin Rapum. Spanish, Nabo. Italian, Rapo. French, Rave. German, Ruben. Dutch, Raapen knollen.
232. Wall-pepper or Stonecrop. Sedum minimum.
Also see #191. Orpine - #232. Wall Pepper
1. The Stalks grow about five Inches high; the Leaves are a pale Green, and the Flowers yellow.
2. It grows on Walls and Houses, flowring in May.
3. This Plant is often used in the Shops for the Sedum minus, by the Ignorance of the Herb Women, altho its Qualities are directly opposite to the other Sedums. and is more apt to raise than cure Inflammations. This Stonecrop is much commended for the Scurvy, and King's Evil: taken inwardly in Decoctions, and the Limbs bathed with it in Fomentations.
4. Greek, Αειζως ειδος τριτον. Latin, Sempervivum minimum. Spanish, Semperviva . Italian, Herba Grassella. French, Joubarbe le plus petit. German, Mawer Pfeffer Dutch, Muur Peper.
