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Description: Description and medicinal uses of several species of the genus Rhamnus.
Click on graphic for larger image Highwaythorn. Waythorn. Hartsthorn. Ramsthorn. (the name derived from the Greek , a branch) are possessed of the same medicinal properties in varying degrees. The Common or Purging Buckthorn, a much-branched shrub, usually about 6 feet high, but sometimes as much as 10 or 12 feet, is indigenous to North Africa, the greater part of Europe and North Asia. Though found throughout England in woods and thickets and near brooks, it is practically confined to a calcareous soil, except in a few counties, such as Bucks., Herts., Oxon. and Wilts. In Scotland it occurs only in a single locality.
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