CYPERUSDescription:Cyperus Longus. A wild plant in our marshes, fens, and other damp places. It is a foot and a half high. The leaves are a foot long or more, narrow, grassy, and of a bright green colour, flat and sharp at the ends. The stalk is triangular and green; there are no leaves on it, except two or three small ones at the top, from which rise a number of small tufts or spikes of flowers. These are brown, light, chaffy, and in all respects like those of the other water grasses.Herbal Remedies and Medicinal Uses of Cyperus:—The root is used. It is long and brown, and, when dried, is of a pleasant smell, and aromatic warm taste. It should be taken up in spring. It is good against pains in the head, and it promotes urine.
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