6 Metaphors for herb

Herbs are the Food of this Species, Fish of that, and Flesh of a Third.

This herb has long been a favourite among writers on the Materia Medica, who have not been wanting to attribute to it abundance of good qualities.

If this is done when the weather is damp, the herbs will not be so good a colour.

" Professor Gubernatis, referring to the symbolical nature of this tradition, remarks that, "this herb may be the moon itself, which opens the hiding-place of the night, or the thunderbolt, which opens the hiding-places of the cloud."

This herb is an ingredient also in the three alexitereal waters; and its essential oil in the stomach plaster and stomach pills.

This herb is an useful corroborant, aperient, and detergent; and hence stands recommended against laxity, debility, and obstructions of the viscera: some have had a great opinion of it for cleansing and healing ulcers of the internal parts, even of the lungs; and for purifying the blood.

6 Metaphors for  herb