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].
- John Hill
- Date:
- 1772
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![C ] ' account; for he is always interefted to cull ■ the old new. Under thefe difad vantages, to which the purchafe of Valerian is fubjedted on all hands, nothing can be fo rational as tlie pa¬ tient’s gathering it for himfelf. Where he' has the convenience of doing this, let it not be omitted; and where that is wantiiig, let him guide himfelf by the fame rules in the purchafe, that lic would obferve in the coU lediing it. ^ , • • Let him buy It only frefh ; only at a cer¬ tain feafon of the year; and only in its per-» fed: ftate and condition : this he will know by the following rules. • Roots are in their full vigour, and poffefs their virtues in greateft perfedion, when they are ready for fhooting up a ftalk; but have not yet made the effort. Till this time they are imperfed, becaufe they have not obtained their full maturity; and dfter this they are fxhaufted,. The ultimate end of nature in the growth of plants, is the formation of the feeds : when thefe are perfeded, the root is no longer ufeful; and it becomes a ftick : even while the ftalk is in its growth, the ricli juices are fent up fo faft to it, that the root U B 2 ' ' drained '](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30789448_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
