ANEMONE.Description:The Anemone is also called also Wind Flower, because, they say the flowers never open but when the wind bloweth. The seed also flies away with the wind. It has a perennial thick root, full of knobs, very acrid to the taste. Its leaves are supported on long leaf stalks, which are divided into three parts, each of which support a number of pointed and jagged segments, having a round slender and purple stem, six or eight inches high, with three leaves surrounding it near the top. The flowers are large and white, with more or less of a purple tinge, which stand on tender foot stalks, which rise from the centre of the leaves, surrounding the stem. It is found in woods, and by hedges; but it is mostly cultivated in gardens where its colours are more beautiful and various. It flowers early in the spring. Herbal Remedies and Medicinal Uses of Anemone:—The leaves provoke the terms, when taken as a decoction. Bathing the body with it cures leprosy. The leaves being stamped, and the juice snuffed up the nose, purge the head. Being made into an ointment, and the eyelids anointed with it, it is good for inflammations of the eyes, and other diseases peculiar to them. amaurosis, cataract, and opacity of the cornea.
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