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Show "Healing" Powers of Flowers Some quaint superstitions still linger lin-ger around many of the common (lowers (low-ers In rural parts of England. Groundsel is said to be a certain cure for toothache, but the root must he dug up with an implement having no iron in it. and the aching tooth is then touched five times witb the root. The juice of the red flower of valerian va-lerian Is a cure for splinters in the flesh, while fennel flowers will heal broken bones, or, if they need to be glued together, the roots of Solomon's seal, ground up and drunk In n!e, will do the trick. Eyohright is believed to he infallible infalli-ble for treating all eye troubles, especially espe-cially failing eyesight, the ruruls pointing out that birds and animals never suffered from bad eyes because they pe. k at the eyebright. |