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Family: Amaranthaceae
---Synonyms---Love-Lies-Bleeding. Red Cockscomb. Velvet Flower,
Flower-gentle, Flower-velure, Floramor,
Prince's Feather
It runneth up
with a stalk which is streaked and somewhat reddish towards the root. It has
long, broad reddish-green leaves and flowers which are more like tufts, very
beautiful to behold.
Many species are widely distributed as pernicious weeds. Their economic
importance is slight, their properties chiefly proteid nutrient. Many abound
in mucilage and sugar and many species are used as pot-herbs, resembling
those of Chenopodiaceae. Many, also, are excellent fodder-plants,
though not cultivated.
---Medical Action and Uses---Some species have
slightly astringent properties, others are diaphoretics and diuretics, and a
few are tonics and stimulants.
The flowers, dried and beaten into powder, stop the
terms in women. The flowers stop all fluxes of blood, whether in man or
woman, bleeding either at the nose or wound. There is also a sort of
Amaranthus that bears a white flower, which stops the whites in women, and
the running of the reins in men, and is a most gallant anti-venereal, and a
singular remedy for the French pox.
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