The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill].

  • Hill, John, 1714?-1775.
Date:
1772
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Credit: The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 24 ] are all fprmed in this manner : containing the rudiments of new plants, and fupplying the place of the old roots^ which decayed in flowering. „ It is neceiTary fo much ihould be known, to direft us in the proper gathering of medi- ‘ cinal roots ; and thus the philofophy of plants ferves the purpofes of medicine, CHAP. VIIL Mamer of curing Valerian Root, The Root being gathered in perfect tion, the next care is to cure it. Ma-^ ny have thought it had mod: virtue freih^ but though very fine in that ftate; it is finer by far when new dried in a proper rnanner. The curing of medicinal roots, is a fubjed: we do not rightly manage in England. The Ginfeng of tfle Eaft-Indies, and the Salep of the Turks, are inftances that they have an art, in general unknown to us : we cannot preferve any root as they do Ginfeng; and with regard to Salep, the root pf our own Orchis, would'perfedly anfwpr its purpofe, if we had the fame method of preparing it. This is not indeed fo difficult as may ffie thought, but it would be wandering froqi the