Its quartz hills are covered with trees and gigantic grasses; the buaze, a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with a rich fragrance; its seeds produce a fine drying oil, and the bark of the smaller branches yields a fibre finer and stronger than flax; with which the natives make their nets for fishing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
For a study of female immunological infertility by Chen Xiaoping, researchers used Guyin Decoction ginseng, rehmannia, dioscorea, cornus, cuscuta, polygala, schizandra, and licorice to treat 60 women with infertility attributed to antisperm immune response. ❋ Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier (2000)
The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger. ❋ Winston Churchill (1909)
Youth, after all, is a shamefaced and secretive season; like the fringed polygala, it hides its real blossom underground. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)
Plants of this genus were named polygala, the Greek for much milk, not because they have milky juice -- for it is bitter and clear -- but because feeding on them is supposed to increase the flow of cattle's milk. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
The spring-beauty, the painted trillium, the fringed polygala, the showy lady's-slipper, are all more striking to look upon, but they do not quite touch the heart; they lack the soul that perfume suggests. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
I usually find it and the fringed polygala in bloom at the same time; the lady's-slipper is a little later. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
The child is a plant that blossoms first at the root underground, like the fringed polygala, and only after ❋ John Albee (1874)
Frankfort, 1765; Helminth, at Edinburgh, 1782; G. Folchi, "Rech. chimico Thérap. sur la racine du polygala du Virginie." ❋ Unknown (1863)
But the polygala is quite inodorous, while the guaco gives forth a strong aromatic smell, resembling valerian. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
The soil is covered with pines (ananas), hemimeris, polygala, and melastomas. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)
Root of seneka, polygala seneka, of elicampane, inula helenium. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
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Other native American herbs that serve as expectorants include yerba santa (Eriodictyon californica), grindelia grandiflora, balm of Gilead (Populus balsamifera and P.candicans), polygala senega, sundew (Drosera rotundiflora), lobelia seed or leaf tincture (L. inflata), boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum) and pleurisy root (Asclepias tuberosa). ❋ JOHN LUST (2003)
a small forest-tree, grows abundantly; it is a species of polygala; its beautiful clusters of sweet-scented pinkish flowers perfume the air with ❋ David Livingstone (1843)
