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CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

 

SPINAGE

Description. Spinage has a long whitish root, from which spring several pretty broad, sharp-pointed leaves, hollowed in next the stalk, and in shape somewhat like aron; but they are more wrinkled and covered with an unctuous mealiness: the stalk is fat and succulent, growing to be about two feet high, having the like but smaller leaves growing on it with several spikes of green herbaceous flowers, and after them come large prickly seed.

Place. It is sown yearly in gardens.

Virtues. It is more used for food than medicine, being a good boiled sallad, and much eaten in the spring, being useful to temper the heat and sharpness of the humours; it is cooling and moistening, diuretic, and rendersthe body soluble.


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