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A28315	Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof / by Joseph Blagrave of Reading, Gent. ...	Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.	1671 (1671)	Wing B3112; ESTC R13219	116,672	169

ear Mustard Mercury ●edge-mustard Nettles Nep. Onyons Osmond royal both flags Osmond water both flags Park-leavs or Tudson Poppey red flowers Pilewort Pepperwort Radish Ragwort Rocket Rhubarb Bostard-rhubard Rupturewort Sawwort Savin Saxifrage Sciatica cresses Scabious Scorpion-grass Spurge Self heal Sene. Shepheards needle Sheapheards purse Sneesewort Sopewort Spearwort Solomo's seal Swallowwort Tamaris Thistles Tarragon Toothwort or dentory Our Ladies thistle Wake Robin Cuckow pint Wormwood Wood waxon Woad Wallwort Wood sage Sun Ale cost or costmary Angelica Anise Ash-tree Almonds Allgood Atens Bazil-street Birds eye Burnet Bugle Calamint Cammomil Centory Chervil or sweet Cicely Celandine Clary Catmint Cowslips Comfrey with yellow flowers Crown imperial good for palsies Daffydils or Daffydowndilly Dill. Ditany Eglantine Elecampane Eye-bright Fennel Figwort Golden rod. Gilly-flowers sweet Herbs ears Holly rose Hig●aler flowers yellow with woolley leavs Saint Katherines flower Saint Johnswort Saint Jameswort Ladies bed-straw with yellow flowers Juriper Lavender Lavender cotten Ladies man●le Lovage Lillies yellowish flowers Mary golds Marjerome sweet Maudlin sweet Masterwort May weed Melilo● Mints garden Misletoe Mugwort Motherwort Mallein One blade or herb true love Oxlips Parsly Saint Peters wort Palma bristi Peny royal Pimpernel Piony Roses red Rosa solis Rosemary Roses damask Rue Saffron Sanicle Sage Sampire Saunders Scordium Setwall Savory summer Southern wood Sun-flower Sundew Spignel Tansey Tree of life Tormentil Valerian Vervain Walnut leaves Woodbine flowers or honey suckles Wood-rose Vipers bugloss Venus Adders tongue Apples Arrach stinking Arch-angel white-flowers Arrow head Artechokes Alkanet Barley Beans-white Bears-breach Beech-leavs Blites-flowers white Beets white Bucks horn plantane Cleavers or Goose-grass Colis foot Columbines with white flowers Crab tree Cherry-tree and fruit Cranes-bil Cud-weed Comphrey roots Daisies Dandeli●n Ducks meat E●de● flowers Flea-wor● ●elli-●ry● Flixweed Groundsel Gourds Harts-ease or herb of the Trinity Herb True love Herb two pence or money wort Hounds tongue Larks spur with white flowers Lillies with white-flowers Maiden hair Moss on Apple-trees or crab-trees Mulberries leaves Navel wort Orrach flowers white Peach flowers Pellitory of the wall Plantane Perwinckle wild Pond weed Poppy flowers white Pauls bettony Primrose Ribwort Roses white Rushes Saunders flow white Snakeweed Sorrelwood Sowthistle Stich-wort Spinach Staw berries Sycomore tree Thro●●-wort or bell flower Three leav'd grass Turnip root Vine leavs Violets leavs roots Water cresses Mercury Alkanet All good Barberries Blood wort Bell flower Blew bottle Dog grass ●ndive Fluellin Liver-wort Loose-strife Loose-wort Lung-wort Mede-sweet Medlar tree Maddir Millet Privet Quinces Succory Rampion Sorrel-garden Star-wort Wh●r●e-berries Willow-tree Wood bine-leavs Wild Tansey Yarrow Moon Cabbage Chick-weed Coleworts Cucumber Housleek or sengreen Lettuce Mellions Orpine Pompions Pompions Purslane Moon wort General Rules to know under what Planet every Herb or Plant is governed by the only use of an Herbal with the true reason thereof according unto the Author's experience and practice for many years as followeth THe first thing considerable is to take n● 〈◊〉 of the Elemental Qualities of each Planet viz. whether hot and dry hot and moist cold and dry or cold and moist and of what decrees as first second third or fourth Secondly we must by an Herbal find the nature or Elemental quality of the plants if you find that both the Planet and plant do accord in Elemental qualities then we may conclude that such an herb or plant is under such a Planet for any reasonable Philosopher well knoweth that every Element doth naturally sympathize with its own like even as the actions of men doth naturally sympathize with their complexion and condition of that Planet which hath predominancy over them as I have elsewhere expressed Example ♄ Saturn is a Planet cold and dry in the third and fourth degree Now by the Herbal I find that hemlock henbane night-shade and such like are cold and dry in the third and fourth degree and therefore may justly be attributed unto the Planet Saturn ♃ Jupiter is by nature hot and moist Now by the Herbal I find that burrage mallows and the herb or plant called dog-stones are by nature hot and moist and therefore may justly be attributed unto Jupiter ♂ Mars is by nature hot and dry in the third and fourth degree Now by the Herbal I find that carduus wormwood tobacco rhubarb hellebore box and such like are all under the dominion of Mars as being hot and dry in the third and fourth degree ☉ The Sun is by nature hot and dry in the first and second degree and near unto the third Now by the Herbal I find that angelica baum marigolds rue sweet marjoram and such like are all hot and dry in the first and second degree perhaps rear unto the third and therefore are all attributed unto the Sun ♀ Venus is by nature cold and moist in the first and second degree Now by the Herbal I find that violets spinage white beets white beans and such like are all under the dominion of Venus as being cold and moist in the first and second degree accordingly ☿ Mercury is by nature cold and dry in the first and second degree Now by the Herbal I find that endive succory woodbine lung-wort liver-wort and such like are all cold and dry in the first and second degree and are therefore under the dominion of Mercury ☽ The Moon is by nature cold and moist in the third and fourth degree and by the Herbal I find that cabbage sea-green chickweed orpine purslain and such like are all cold and moist in the third and fourth degree and therefore are under the dominion of the Moon Another way whereby to attribute each herb or plant aright unto the Planet that so hey may agree both in elemental qualities and virtues more especially of the first part in the degrees of heat or cold it being the way of my practice and that with good success FIrst having by an Herbal found the virtue of the plant which is approved for the curing of such infirmities or diseases which are under the dominion of such a planet as causes them although the herb or plant agree but in the first elemental quality of heat or cold yet the herb or plant may justly and rationally be attributed unto the Planet which owns the grief and so thereby make a sympathetick cure As instance Jupiter who is by nature hot and moist and hath predominancy over the liver lungs blood veins plurisies and the like Now by the Herbal we find that lung-wort wood-bittany agremony scurvigrass and such like are all good to cure such infirmities notwithstanding they are all hot and dry in the first and second degree yet having the first elemental quality of heat together with virtue to cure such defects which Jupiter causeth they may justly be attributed unto Jupiter and so plantane white beets and dandelion accounted by Authors cold and dry may justly be attributed unto Venus as having the first elemental quality of being cold ●n the first or second

proceedeth from too much luxury or from surfeiting or inordinate repletion also melancholly and ill diet The Moon in Gemini of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed under this configuration shall be indanger of a feaver and the pain disperses it self all over the body but principally in the Arteries and joynts Also the Sick is inclinable to a Consumption the vitals much afflicted the pulse low and little also they will be subject unto frequent sweatings with Symptomes of the Spleen The disease more troublesome in the night than in the day The cause of this distemper is from much waiting weariness of the mind and overburdening with multiplicity of affairs excess of labour or violent exercise The Moon in Cancer of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Cancer of Saturn oppressed shall be afflicted in the breast with tough melancholly matter or thick flegm also troubled with Coughs Catharrs hoarseness and a distillation of Rhuems or Humours falling into the breast their pipes are narrow and obstructed inordinate feavers pulses little and low oft-times a Quotidian but now especially a Quartane Ague followes with belly-ake or some infirmness in the reins or Secrets If the Moon be decreasing and near the body of Saturn the sickness is like to be long and lasting The cause is from great cold and inordinate eating or drinking and want of moderate exercise The Moon in Leo of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Leo of Saturn oppressed shall be oppressed with much heat in the breast and intension of the heart-strings with augmenting feavers the pulses keeping no course annoyed with external and internal heat also great faintness of heart or swooning fits after some time if not cured the sick will be subject unto the black jaundies The cause it from grief taken and ill melancholly blood The Moon in Virgo of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their beds when the Moon is in Virgo of Saturn oppressed shall be troubled with in ordinate feavers pricking or shooting under the ribs also viscous flegm obstructing the bowels sometimes the wind chollick afflicts them also the gout and aches in the thighs and feet I oft-times find they are much troubled with wormes The cause of this distemper is usually from crudities and evill digestion in the stomack and contrary diet The Moon in Libra of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Libra of Saturn or Mercury oppressed shall be troubled with pains of the head breast and stomach disaffected the cough hoarsness and distillation of rhuems shall afflict them and losse of Appetite small fevers troubling them by night oft-times great pains in their joynts knees and thighs also some defect in their reins kidneys and bladder The cause is originally from surfeting or glutton and meat not fully digested or excess of Venery The Moon in Scorpio of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in Scorpio of Saturn afflicted shall be subject unto some defects in their secret parts hemorhoids piles or some exulceration their no retention of urine oft-times vexed with the stone or stop in the bladder sometimes if a man the gonorrea if a woman too much of menstrues The cause is of corrupt flegm or disorder of body The Moon in Sagitary of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Sagitary of Saturn oppressed shall be tormented with defluction of thin sharp humors and aches of the sinews and arteries extreamities of heat and cold and oft-times a double access of a feaver and most commonly a violent burning feaver at the first being ill The cause is from blood infected with choler and melancholy and sometimes by great pains taking or violent exercise and cold taken thereupon The Moon in Capricorn of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed whilst the Moon is in Capricorn of Saturn oppressed shall be afflicted with heaviness at the breast and stomach and difficulty of breathing and dry Coughs their lungs oppressed more pained by night than day with intended feavers oft times troubled with head-ach and noise in their head The Cause is from great cold melancholy and disorderly dyet The Moon in Aquary of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed the Moon being in the sign Aquary of Saturn or Mercury afflicted shall be troubled with much melancholy winds coagulated in the veins the malady ceaseth on them unequally with remission and intension their heads pained with wind or noise Also troubled with faint fits or passion of the heart sometimes a sore throat or troubled with a rising there being in danger of suffocation The cause is from excess of labour want of sleep whereby to refresh nature and much trouble of mind The Moon in Pisces of Saturn or Mercury oppressed Those who take their bed when the Moon is in Pisces of Saturn oppressed shall be troubled with much sighing and pricking or shooting of the breast and under the paps and continual augmenting feavers with extensions of the precordiacks and heart-strings or arteries also their throat is oppressed with thick flegm and their breast with a rotten cough and store of watry matter lodging there The cause is from extreamity of cold taken by bathing or otherwise by much wet The Way to make diet drinks by decoctions or to extract the Spirits of Plants or Herbs Also to make Syrups Lohochs or Lambetives Pills Gly●●ers Fumes Suffumigations Cataplasms Oyntments Bathes Also the making and administrating of Purgations and vomits and concerning blood-letting c. Concerning Decoctions and Dyet-drinks HAving by the Rules elsewhere expressed in this Book collected the herbs together suitable to the cure according unto their virtues and numbers alwaies remembring in all cures to fortifie the heart with herbs proper you must take the herbs and chop them small But unto all diet drinks I usually add as followeth to make it the more strong and useful viz. raisons currants sometimes figs liquorish and aniseed and if the Patient be much troubled with wind then you may also put into it sweet fennil-seed coliander-seed and such like which are good to expel wind These additions must be bruised well in a mortar and so boiled with the herbs when its boiling you must keep them close covered whereby to keep in the spirit you may boil these herbs with the addition in bear or ale If you desire to make it strong and nutritive then when it is new boiled you may put into it white-wine muscadel or brandy according unto the temper of the Patient A good handful of all sorts of herbs put together will be sufficient for three or four gallons of liliquor you may let it boil until a forth part or thereabouts be wasted for if you keep it close covered it will not waste very much in the boiling Now of this diet drink we usually give the

taken with extream cold which usually settleth in this part are seemingly speechless or at least speak with little or low voice so this boy being more vehemently afflicted under so sad a cold planet could not speak at all And likewise he seemed to be foolish for there was a great cold defect in the brain and head so well as in the Vvula Now having by the Rules of Art discovered the cause so well as the distemper it self the friends of this boy and my self agreed upon a price for the cure which I performed in less then a months space The cure was effected as followeth having in the first place by the rules hereafter mentioned endeavoured to afflict the Witch that so she might be discouraged to act any further in her mischief I used herbs antipathetical unto the afflicting planet being Saturn viz. Herbs under the dominion of the Sun and Jupiter according unto their numbers and virtues being gathered at their right planetary hours three of which hetbs being under the domion of the ●un I caused him to wear about his neck it being in virtue answerable unto gold and a number which properly belongeth unto the Sun as I have shewed elsewhere and as gold is a metal under the dominion of the Sun and hath a virtue to withstand all kinds of evils and to comfort the heart arteries and vital spirits so likewise hath these herbs under his dominion the like properties as also the ruby amongst stones Generally all those pains aches distempers or afflictions which are caused by Witchcraft are called Evils and sometimes these kinds of Evils will turn into white kernels swellings proceeding from some extraordinary distemper in the nerves as I have elsewhere expressed and then it s usually called the Kings Evil. Having collected my herbs together according unto their numbers and virtues being under the dominion of the Sun and Jupiter as aforesaid and caused a mixture then out of these herbs we usually make diet drinks ointments and suffumigations of the diet drink I gave him three times a day viz. Morning afternoon and night also every morning we usually give them water-grewel made with some of those herbs about an hour after they have taken the diet drink by which means through Gods blessing the boy within a month was cured and hath so continued ever since I believe it will be a warning unto him how to meddle with such Creatures in a morning without prayer I shall relate one passage which happened between the Boys Unkle and my self as followeth The month being expired wihich was the time set for the Boys cure he came to see whether the Boy could speak or no whereupon I called in the boy and bad him speak to his unckle which he did desiring to know how all his friends did whereupon his Unkle seemed to be much troubled and sad for as he told me afterwards he did verily believe that I had infused a spirit into the boy to make him speak and his reason was because the Doctors and others who had undertaken to help him but could not said he would never be cured as they verily believed by any man whatsoever whereupon the boys Unkle desired me to keep him somewhat longer and then he would come and bring money for the cure The reason why he brought no money with him was because he did not believe I could help him and he made his bargain so that if I did not cure the boy I was to have nought for my charge and pains And about a week after he came privately to my Servants desiring to speak with the boy which he did and then but not before he was satisfied for the boy could both pray and readily give answers unto questions After which about a week following he came again with one of his Neighbours who both heard the boy speak and pray again and was fully satisfied paying me what we had agreed upon for the cure It seems they were not onely disheartened by Physitians but also hearing that I did many times set figures concerning Nativities thefts strays and fugitives c. As though I had wrought the cure by unlawful means But before we parted I gave them both such ample satisfaction that they went away well contented and satisfied being joyful that it was their good hap to come unto me Now whether this Boy was by this woman bewitched or whether it pleased God to lay such an affliction upon the Boy It may be a question worthy of answer unto which I shall briefly reply in point of art That in regard the only afflicting planet was Lord of the twelfth and an evil planet I did conclude that the infirmity might proceed from fascination or witchcraft but not without Gods permission for as I have elsewhere declared if we neglect daily prayers we lie lyable unto the assaults of Sathan and his Instruments for the time being especially in our bodies For our Saviour Jesus Christ taught us to pray daily not only for bread but also to deliver us from evil wherein if we fail the fault is ours How to make the Sympathetical Powder with the way to apply the same for the curing of wounds and sundry distempers Especially such which any way concern the blood or vital spirits TAke of Roman vitriol six or eight ounces beat it very small in a morter then search it through a fine search do it when the Sun enters Leo which is about the twelfth of July then spread it finely upon an earthen glased pan set it daily in the heat of the Sun during forty days and keep it warm at night and be careful it takes no wet or cold afterwards you must continually keep it dry with this powder alone kept dry and warm great cures may be done I shall instance one Example A Brother of mine living in Southcote near Reading in the time of the late war had a Mastiffe Dog shot into the neck and head with a brace of bullets The dog being very much swell'd lay pining away and was in appearance near unto death A Gent. who came by accident having some of this powder in his pocket was desirous to make some tryal thereof upon this Dog whereupon with a linnen cloth we took some of the corruption which was about his neck and immediately applyed a small quantity of the powder unto it keeping it very warm whereupon presently the Dog revived stood up and wagged his tail then presently for further tryal we laid the powder with the corruption to the air and then the Dog fell down as dead again shivering and then immediately we closed it up again and ever afterwards kept it warm and the Dog in a short time recovered The Way to apply this Powder for the curing of distempers and infirmities especially such wherein the Blood and vital Spirits are concerned VVHen you are minded to cure any disease or infirmity you must by the help of this Book take notice what herbs are good to be used to cure

herbs under such Planets which are antipathetical unto each several Complexion before mentioned not omitting oyntments to the heart and brain and fumes to the head if the brain be moist and suffumigation if dry If the Patient have been long distempered then 't will get into the blood and then 't will be convenient sometimes to let them blood and then if you take a small quantity of the Sympathetical powder and mix it with so much Powder of the herbs proportionable for the Cure it will mightily help forward the cure you must order it and wear it as directed in the cureing of Agues There are several other kinds and causes of madness as followeth sometimes height of blood will ascend up to the head and so disturb their brain which will cause madness the cureing whereof is by oft letting blood and dyet drink made suitable by Antipathy unto their Complexion as aforesaid for if we should apply herbs which are by nature hot although good in general for the brain to a Cholerick mad body it will rather increase then mittigate their fury but in all cures you must ever remember to fortify the heart and vital Spirits the Sympathetical powder in this kind of madness mixt and ordered as aforesaid is most proper the truth is this kind of madness is easily cured by any drug-Doctor for their general way is to cure by blood letting and purgation which kind of Physick is proper for this distemper ●here is another kind of madness which cometh by being costive bound in body of which I have cured many and I always found by the Figure that the chief significators of the distemper were in earthy Signs for the time being these who are taken in this condition will be as mad as any according unto their natural Complexion be it Choler Sanguine Melancholy or Fiegmatick at the first they will be ill only in head and stomack but after some time it will make them light headed and forgetful and by reason of that great stop in Natures Course it will more and more cause inordinate Vapours to ascend up to the head and brain and at length bring madness insomuch that they are not able to discover their own condition nor yet their friends I have known some who have dyed in this condition before their grief was perfectly known or at least were so far gone that Doctors could not help them I had once a Maid who was a Farmers Daughter living in the Parish of Goring in the County of Oxon brought tyed and bound fast in a Cart with Cords who was only mad by reason of this condition her Friends not knowing what she ayled some thought it might be through Love others thought she was either bewitched or possessed some thought one thing and some another the truth is she looked very gastly and wild but being by nature of a Sanguine Complection she would hoop hollow sing and dance day and night if she might be suffered having by a Figure discovered the cause of her distemper I bargained with her Father what to have for the cure I quickly with suppositer and glister brought her to stool and within three days she grew sensible and quiet and in a week was perfectly recovered I have known sometimes that an afright hath caused madness in this condition applications must be chiefly to the brain not omitting Dyet drink made suitable by antipathy to their Complexion I have known some Females who have been mad only by the stop of their monethly Course the cure is by herbs proper to help such infirmities as you shall find in this book I have known some women who have fell mad after they have been delivered of their Child occasioned sometime from great cold taken or disorderly dyet and sometimes by Witchcraft as I have already declared occasioned by the Tender or Nurse for their bodies being open and weak any infirmities may the easier be wrought upon them by such wretches and yet the cause undiscovered and the Patient many times dyeth The worst kind of madness that I know is occasioned from Sorcery or Witchcraft and I believe there are multitudes of this kind in Beathlaem and elsewhere that lye many years in this condition for except the Witches power be taken off and staid it s in vain to administer Physick more especially where the Witch sometimes may have admittance to come to the Patient others may perhaps be possessed and then the Devil must be cast forth for as I have said already except the true cause of each kinds of madness be discovered its impossible to cure without a Miracle except by accident now to cure this kind of madness which cometh from Witchcraft In the first place you must by the Rules of Art endeavour to afflict the Witch and then by herbs antipathetical unto the afflicting Planet and complection of the Patient you must make Dyet-drinks Oyntments and Glisters not omitting some ingredients suitable as Figs Raisons Currants Liquorish Aniseeds or any other seeds good to expel wind c. sometimes when the body is bound which most mad people are very subject unto you must make choyce of such herbs amongst your Numbers which are Purging and losening Note that I alwayes found in my Practice that the afflicting Planet and Complexion of the Patient were usually one as instance Cholerick people are commonly afflicted of Mars and Melancholy under Saturn for such is the subtilty of the Devil and the Witches that they strike most upon that humour whereunto they find the nature of men and Women most prone and apt to receive impression If these Rules which I have inserted be well observed and followed there is no one mad body whatsoever but may through Gods blessing be recovered to my knowledge I have not failed these many years where I have undertaken notwithstanding some whom I have cured have been mad many years but I must needs say the longer they are mad before a right means is used the more difficult the cure is and somewhat the more time it will require to perfect their cure For according unto that saying in Philosophy Custom produceth a second Nature c. FINIS To all such who are Students and well-Willers unto this most excellent Science of Astrology I Presume that no sooner are these following Books come forth but some will be ready to say What needs this Treatise since we have so many books of this nature extant written both so Learned and Copious even in our own Language that one would think nothing more could be written of this Subject but yet we know that in all Arts and Sciences whatsoever no man can so curiously and exactly write of any matter or thing of what Nature soever but that something might be added thereunto and were it but only a confirmation of what have been written formerly by other Authors yet it s but reasonable that such persons who have been Practitioners and Students in this Art should likewise have liberty to write