the neck Aron Vide Cuckow pintle Arrach wilde and stinking Atriplex STinking Arrach groweth up with a little stalk Description having many branches the leaves are smaller then those of the Garden and pointed towards the top of a whitish green colour which we call an Ash colour it beareth yellow flowers which afterwards turn into small mealy seeds It may easily be known by the smell being very like stinking Fish Names Places and Time It is called in Latine Vulvaria and Atriplex in English stinking Arrach you may finde it upon most Dunghills under old walls about the mud walls in the fields about London it grows plentifully and also by ditches sides It flowers and seeds from June till after Bartholomewtide Temperature and Vertues This Plant Saturn rules it is cold moist and earthy an excellent plant for Womens diseases It cures fits of the Mother Dislocation or falling out of the Womb being taken inwardly It cools the over much heat of the womb and causes easie Delivery being rubbed and held to the nostrils it causeth the Womb to descend to its right place and cleanses and strengthens it It provokes the Terms if stopped and also stops the immoderate flowing of them and makes Barren women fruitful It is therefore good for such Women as are subject to be troubled with any of the aforementioned Distempers to prepare and keep alwayes by them a Syrup made of the juyce of this Herb and sugar or honey which is best to cleanse the Womb otherwise sugar is more proper Arsmart Persicaria THis Herb grows with a little joynted greenish stalk Description the leaves growing at the joynts of the stalks being not very long many times having blackish spots upon them the flowers grow in spiky heads of a blush colour after them come little blackish flat seeds the root is fibrous and perisheth every year There is dead or milde Arsmart and biting Arsmart which if you taste of it will bite your tongue very much The Names It is called in Latine Piper Aquaticum and Persicaria because the leaves do something resemble Peach leaves in English Water Pepper and Arsmart Place and time It is common in most ditches especially such as are muddy and grows also upon dunghils of mud which hath been cast out of ditches I have seen them covered with it in Hampshire and other places It is in flower in June and seeds about August Temperature and Vertues The milde is said to be cold and dry the biting hot and dry then sure there Mars and Saturn grow together The biting Arsmart being rubbed upon a tyred horses back will make him go again lively it is good to kill Fleas being strewed in Chambers The powder of the milde Arsmart being given to the quantity of two drams at a time in a little Vinegar opens obstructions of the Liver being bruised with rue and Wormwood and fryed with Butter or Suet and applyed to the belly or stomach destroyes the worms in them the distilled water thereof mixed with a little oyl of Spike and the gall of an Oxe is good to ease the pains of the Gout the grieved place being anointed therewith and a blue woollen cloath applyed upon it so likewise being mixed with Aqua vitae it takes away Aches The herb being stamped with Wine and applyed to the Matrix draweth down the Terms The leaves being stamped and applyed to green Wounds cools them and defends them from inflammations The root or seed applyed to an aking Tooth takes away the pain and the juyce of the Herb dropped into the ears kills worms in them and is good against Deafness Alkanet Fucus Herba THere are accounted four kindes of this Plant Descri ∣ ption but never a one of them common nor easily found in England though Culpepper saith there is one kinde grows commonly in this Nation which is as true as the story he tells of one of his Disciples whose horses shooes were pulled off by riding over Moonwort as he saith The red great Alkanet groweth up about a foot and a half high having usually one round stalk with many leaves prickly and hoary over like small Bugloss the flowers much like them of Echium or small Bugloss of a sky colour tending to purple yielding a small pale coloured seed somewhat long the root is about the thickness of ones finger having a woody pith within of a bloody colour dying whatsoever it toucheth The other kinde hath more plenty of leaves more hairy and woolly then the former the stalks grow higher having yellow flowers the root of a shining purple colour yielding more juyce then the first The third kinde hath a greater and more juycie root then the former but the plant smaller and the leaves narrower the flowers red like those of small Bugloss the seeds are ash-colour tasting like Bugloss and the fourth kinde is much like common Summer Savory the flowers blueish or sky colour Names It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Illinere succo vel Pigmentis to colour or paint because of its painting property it is also called Fucus herba and Onocleia Buglossa Hispanica or Spanish Bugloss and Orchanet and Alkanet in English and in Shops likewise Anchusa Place and Time They grow all naturally about Narbone and Montpelier in France and may be had especially the Roots at our Shops yet Gerhard saith he found them in the Isle of Thanet in Kent but that is contradicted by his Reviser They flourish in the Summer moneths and best yield their juyce in Harvest time Nature and Vertues The roots are cold and dry according to Gallen yet being endued with some bitterness argues them not very cold they cleanse chollerick humours the leaves binde and dry but not so powerfully as the roots Culpepper calls this herb one of the darlings of Venus I suppose because he had heard the Madams used it to paint their faces and likewise it is used by Gentlewomen to colour Syrrups Waters and Jellies as is also Turnsole and the root being used as a Pessary draweth forth the dead Birth the decoction inwardly drunk with Mead or honied water cures the yellow Jaundies diseases of the Kidneys and Spleen and is effectual in Agues a Searcloath made with the root and oyl is good for Vlcers and with parched Barley meal it helps the Leprosie Tetter and Ringworms as saith Dioscorides But Culpepper teacheth how to kill Serpents with it which he saith is done if any one hath newly eaten the root and spits in a Serpents mouth the Serpent instantly dyes but this is as ridiculous as Culpepper himself yet the decoction is said to drive out the Measels and small Pox if it be drunk in the beginning with hot beer the leaves boiled in wine and drunk is good against the Laske the root boiled in Wine and sweet butter without salt till it is red is good for bruises received by falls and for green wounds made with pricks or thrusts Make
yellow Jaundies Barley IT is needless to say any thing more of this Grain here but onely of the Physical use it 's other vertues being sufficiently known to the Husbandman and to the Brewer and Alewife too but these latter gain more by the Vices attending it then by its Vertues Temperature and Vertues It is cooling and drying in the first degree of a cleansing quality Culpepper as I remember ascribes it to Venus he would lay all the fault of drunkenness upon women But c. Barley indeed the water made thereof and other things doth much nourish such as are troubled with Agues Feavers and hot Stomachs The French Barley is much used for diseases of the Breast and likewise in Feavers and other inward heats as heat of the Vrine in a Gonorrhea or otherwise it doth provoke Vrine The preparation of the Barley water is thus Take French Barley two ounces boil it in two several waters casting the water away then boil it the third time in a quart of water to a pint and a half adding Liquorish half an ounce Violet leaves and Strawberry leaves of each an handful sweeten it with Sugar or syrrup of Violets this is excellent in a Fever or Surfeit being timely used Barley meal and Fleawort being boiled in water and made into a pultis with honey and oyl of Lillies cures Tumors and Swellings being applyed warm A plaister made thereof with Tar Wax and Oyl helpeth the hard swelling of the Kings Evil in the throat it easeth pains of the sides and stomach and windiness of the Spleen being boiled with Melilot Cammomil flowers and some Linseed Fennigreek and Rue in powder and applyed warm to the sides Barley meal boiled in Vinegar with some honey and some dry Eigs added thereunto dissolveth hard Imposthumes and excrescences growing upon the eye-lids and asswageth inflammations being applyed thereunto Basil Basilicum BAsil springeth up with one stalk Description shooting forth branches on every side at the joynts grow the leaves two at every joynt which are of a pale green colour and of a strong smell they are somewhat round a little pointed and dented a little about the edges the flowers stand at the tops of the branches and are small and white the seed is black Names It is called in Latine Ocymum and Basilicum in English Basil Place and Time Basil is nourished onely in Gardens with us and flowers in the heat of Summer the seed is soon ripe the root perisheth at Winter it must be new sowen every year Nature and Vertues It is said to be hot in the second degree but having a superfluous moisture Culpepper rails at large against this herb that it ought not to be taken inwardly yet it may be corrected with oyl and vinegar and eaten by women to dry up their milk the same effect it hath being bruised and applyed outwardly to the breasts the much smelling thereunto causeth the Head ache to those who have a weak brain yet to those whose brains are stronger it comforts the brain and purges the head it procures speedy delivery and provokes Vrine and the Terms it is good against pains of the head and the Lethargy being applyed with oyl of Roses Mirtles and Vinegar the seeds are used to expel melancholly and comfort the heart and the juyce or seeds being bruised and put into the nostrils procureth sneezing The Herb used with honey takes away spots in the face The Bay-Tree Laurus THis is so well known it needs no description Names It is called in Latine Laurus and the berries Bacca Laurt Places and time It grows frequently in our Gardens and is planted against Walls delighting rather in the shade then the Sun it keeps green all the year the berries are ripe towards Winter Nature and Vertues Bayes both the leaves and berries are hot and dry a plant of Jupiter the berries taken in powder with honey is good against infirmities of the Breast as Consumptions and shortness of breach and likewise helps Winde and the Chollick and griping pains of the Belly they provoke Vrine and are good against the Stone and the windiness of the Mother they are good against poisons and the stinging of venomous beasts they open the Liver and Spleen procure an appetite provoke womens Terms cause speedy delivery and purge down the Aster-birth A bath made of the Decoction of the Leaves and Berries is good for women to fit in for diseases of the Womb and Mother and obstractions of the Courses the oyl of the berries is good to comfort the joynts against cold Aches Cramps Palsies and benummedness of any parts the oyl or juyce of the berries dropped into the ears helps deafness and pains in the ears Quicksilver killed in the oyl or juyce helps the Itch and Wheals or Scabs in the skin the powder of them taken in white wine is good against Cramps and contractions of the Sinews The leaves may also be used for many of the purposes aforesaid and are excellent good three or four leaves in broth to comfort the stomack Beans Faba I Shall not need describe these neither there being not scarce a boy or girle but well enough knows both the garden and field Beans that is able to eat a Bean. Names In Latine a bean is called Faba Places and Time The greater sort is planted in Gardens the other small Beans are sown in Fields and are meat for horses and hogs and good to make malt with too The Garden beans are ripe in June and July some earlier and some later according as they are planted serving for good strong food in harvest Temperature and Vertues They are more used with us for food then Physick and while they are green they are held to be cold and moist when dry cold and dry and the Physical uses are these the distilled water of the green shells is excellent good against the Stone to be drunk in the mornings and a little butter unsalted eaten therewith Bean meal helpeth Fellons Boils Bruises Imposthumes and Swellings of Kernels about the Ears being mixed with Fennugreek and Honey and applyed to the place grieved The distilled water of the flowers cleanseth and beautifieth the face and skin and takes away spots and wrinkles thereof A pultis made of bean flower oyl and vinegar and applyed to the breasts of women which are swelled by abundance of milk helpeth the swelling and represseth the milk dissolving the curdling thereof A pultis bieng made with bean flower wine oyl and vinegar helpeth the swelling of the Cods and being used with Rose leaves the white if an Egge and a little Frankincense it helps swellings stripes and watering eyes Beans are also a friend to Venus And thus I shall leave them hastning to proceed to their affinity viz. French Beans Phaseolus HAving now done with the English Bean Description the French or Kidney Bean in order follows which also scarce needs a description being now ordinary in Gardens they grow up at first with one stalk but afterwards
are divided into several branches out of which come long foot stalks bearing three broad round and pointed green leaves and must be supported with sticks or poles growing much higher then garden Pease the flowers are like pease blossoms and vary in colour like the fruit which are some white some blackish some striped the Bean is small and much resembles a Kidney from whence they have attained the name of Kidney beans There is a kinde that bears a scarlet flower more planted for ornament then any thing else Names In Latine it is called Phaseolus in English French and Kidney Beans Place and Time They delight the grow in good ground and must be planted about the latter end of April or beginning of May for sooner the frost will destroy them their fruit is ripe about August and September sometimes in July Temperature and Vertues Kidney beans are accounted hot and moist in the first degree easie of digestion they nourish much increase sperm and are very venerial they excellently provoke Vrine and are great friends to the Kidneys they help shortness of breath by opening the Breast and strengthen the Liver and Stomach and a weak back the dryed beans in Winter may be boiled and eaten with butter as pease are and being beaten to powder and given in white wine they are good against the Stone and cleanse and strengthen the Kidneys taking the quantity of a dram at a time Bears-foot Vide Hellebore Ladies Bedstraw Gallium COmmon Ladies Bedstraw springeth up with small square brown stalks Description at the first standing upright but when it cometh to its usual height which is about a foot or half a yard the tops lean a little downward being usually branched out into divers parts full of joynts with divers very fine small leaves at every one set at equal distances like Woodroof but a great deal less and scarcely having any roughness at all at the branches tops from several joynts do spring forth many long tufts of yellow flowers standing very thick one above another having four leaves apiece smelling not unpleasant yet strong and resinous the seed is black and small like poppey seed and having two most usually joyned near together the root is somewhat red and hath many small threads fastned to it by which it taketh fast hold of the earth creeping a little way under it and the heaviness of the flowers weigh the branches to the ground that it taketh root again at the joynts thereof whereby it most increaseth There is another kinde called Common white-flowred Ladies Bedstraw There are four other kindes which are found in Italy Germany and Candy where I leave them Names It is called in Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and by some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 milk because formerly they used it instead of Runnet to turn the milk into a curd for to make Cheese for which it is said to serve very well and therefore it is called Cheese Runnet both here and beyond the Seas The Latines call it also Gallium and that with white flowers Mollugo in English Ladies Bedstraw and Maids-hair from the fineness of the leaves Place and Time The Common ladies Bedstraw grows in dry Pastures Closes and Meadows and sometimes in those that are wet the white flowred groweth in the Abbey Orchard at St. Albans and divers other places they flower in May and June and the seed is ripe in July and August Temperature and Vertues The name of this plant attributes it to the dominion of Venus but I judge Mercury is the chief ruler thereof it challenges the preheminence above Mugwort for preventing the sore weariness of Travellers The decoction of the herb and flowers used warm is excellent good to bathe the surbated Feet of Footmen and Lackies in hot weather and also to lissome and mollisie the stiffness and weariness of their joynts and sinews being bathed with the said decoction the same may be done with an oyntment or oyl made of the said Herb and flowers which you may alwayes keep in readiness which is available not onely for the same purpose but also sor Burnings and Scaldings and for the dry Scab and Itch in Children The way to make the oyl is by infusing the herb and flower in a sufficient quantity of sallet Oyl and setting it in the heat of the Sun for ten or twelve dayes as oyl of the flowers of Cammomile and other oyls by infusion are made The oyntment you may make by boiling the flowers and herb in Hogs Lard or Sallet Oyl adding to it some melted Bees wax after it is strained either of these may be used for prevention before a Journey is taken or afterwards for a cure first bathe the feet with the decoction and afterwards anoint them with either oyl or oyntment but you are not alwayes sure to have the herb and flowers in readiness for a decoction therefore you may be provided with the Oyl or Oyntment or both which will serve your turn without it The Germans praise that with white flowers to make an excellent bath to strengthen and comfort the weak and weary Sinews Arteries and Joynts Some Cheshire dairy women use the other as is reported in their Runnet for which cause it obtained the name of Cheese Runnet as is said before The decoction of the herb is likewise effectual being drunk to provoke Vrine it helps to break the Stone and to stay inward bleedings and to heal inward wounds The herb and flowers bruised and put up into the nostrils stayeth their bleeding and so it doth the bleeding of Wounds and being applyed to a place that is burned it draweth out the fire and healeth it Dioscorides reports that the Roots are good to stir up Lust which vertue some also attribute to the flowers Beets Sicula THere are of Beets both white and red Description the white is the most common which springeth up with many whitish green great leaves next the ground after cometh a strong ribbed stalk bearing leaves almost to the top the flowers growth in tufts which hang down their heads the seeds are cornered and prickly the root great and long and perisheth commonly the second year Names It is called in Latines Beta and Sicula by some in English Beets Place and Time They grow onely with us where they are planted in Gardens they continue green the first Winter and afterwards flower in July the seed is ripe in August Nature and Vertues The white Beet is temperate in heat and moisture they loosen the belly and provoke Vrine and are good against bitings of venomous beasts the juyce thereof mixed with honey and dropped into the ears easeth the pains and noise thereof and snuffed up into the nose it recovereth a lost smelling the decoction of the roots and leaves cleanseth the head of Scurf Scales and Nits helps the falling of the hair helpeth Freckles Spots and kibed heels if they be
correct the infirmities thereof and dissolve pains and swellings of the Belly and the juyce of the root maketh the hair of a black colour being used for that purpose Wall-fern or Osmond Royal. Osmunda IT hath a great triangle stalk about a yard high Description beset on each side with large winged leaves dented or cut like polipody resembling the large leaves of the Ash-tree towards the tops of the branches grow brown rough and round grains but they are not the seed the root is great and thick covered over with many scales and interlacing roots having in the middle of the great wooddy part thereof some whiteness Names It is called in Latine Osmunda filix Palustris and of some Filicastrum by Alchimists Lunaria major in English Water-fern Osmund Royal and Osmond the Water man Place and Time It grows in moist boggy Ditches as in the Ditch near the Well in Holshot Lane in Hampshire it flourisheth in Summer as the other Ferns do and the leaves decay in Winter but the root continueth long Nature and Vertues The roots are hot and dry but not so hot as the other Ferns the root especially the heart thereof boiled or stamped and taken with some convenient liquor is good for those that are bruised by falls dry beaten or wounded for which cause it is used in wound drinks it is reputed to dissolve clotted blood in any inward part of the body and that it can drive it out by the wound The young sprigs at their first coming forth are good for all the said purposes and to be put into Balsoms Oyls and Plaisters and Vnguents for wounds punches and the like Fig-wort Vide Throat-wort Filipendula Vide Dropwort Dill. Anethum IT groweth up with one stalk Description hardly so big or high as Fennel yet it is so like Fennel that it is often mistaken for it yet the leaves are harder and thicker then Fennel of a stronger and more unpleasant smell and hath smaller Umbels of yellow flowers and the seeds are flatter and thinner then Fennel seed and not of so pleasant a taste the root dyes every year Names It is called in Latine Anethum in English Dill. Place and Time It is sown in Gardens and being once sown if the seeds be suffered to shed it needs no more sowing it flowers in July and seeds in August Nature and Vertues Gerrard saith it is dry in the beginning of the second degree and hot in the end thereof Parkinson saith it is hot in the third degree and dry in the second an herb of Mercury some say that it increases milk in womens breasts though many Authours deny it it is good to expel Winde and provoke Vrine ease pains in the body and stay Vomiting it strengthens the Brain stayes Looseness and stirs up lust being boiled in Wine and drunk but taken in too much quantity it dulls the sight it digesteth raw and viscous humours and easeth pains of winde The oyl is good to dissolve Imposthumes to procure sleep and warm the Brain Stomach and Belly the parts being anointod therewith ☞ See further in Adam in Eden by W. Coles Dittander or Pepperwort Lepidium IT hath long broad sharp pointed leaves of a light blueish green colour dented about the edges Description a round and tough stalk a foot and a half high having divers branches and little white flowers after which comes small seed in little heads Names It is called in Latine Lepidium and Piperitis Place and Time It groweth naturally in many places of this land in low grounds as in the Marshes by Rochester in Kent it flowers about July Nature and Vertues It is hot and dry in the third degree of a sharp taste it hath a cleansing quality and is a Martial plant The leaves being made into an oyntment with Hogs suet or bruised and applyed to the place helps the Sciatica Hip-Gout and pain in the Joynts the part being afterwards bathed with Wine and Oyl and wrapped in Wool or Lambs Skins some women give the juyce of Dittander a spoonful or two in Ale to women in Travail to procure easie delivery it helps to take away the scars of Burning Scabs and scars in the body and cleanseth discolourings of the Skin Docks Rumex THere are many kindes of Docks as the red Dock and Bloodwort but they are all so well known I shall forbear any further description Names It s called in Latine Lapathum and Rumex and Bloodwort Lapathum Sanguineum Their places and time of growth is very well known Nature and Vertues They are cold and dry generally yet herbs of Jove and therefore good to strengthen the Liver and cleanse the Blood especially Bloodwort they are good to cool hot Livers and the red Dock root is good against the yellow Jaundies The root doth also provoke Vrine and the Terms and expells Gravel out of the Bladder The decoction of the seed helps wamblings in the Stomach and stops Fluxes The distilled water cleanses the Skin from the Morphew and Freckles Dodder of Time or Epithymum DOdder shoots strings or threads out of the ground at first Description which are greater or less according to the nature of the plant whereon it grows or fastneth these strings have no leaves but winde themselves thick about the plant they lay hold on ready sometimes to strangle it after they have gotten good hold they break off at bottom and receive nourishment from the plant partaking of its nature it puts forth clusters of small husks or heads which send forth small whitish flowers and afterwards small pale coloured flat seed and twice as big as Poppey seed Names Dodder is called in Shops Cuscuta but that which groweth upon Time Epithymum it grows also upon Nettles Flax Ferne Savory Tares and other Plants that which grows upon Tares the Husbandmen call Hell-weed because they cannot destroy it Places and Time That of Time and Flax grow rarely in England but those of Nettles and Fern do It flowers in July and August Nature and Vertues Dodders do partake of the nature of the Plant on which they grow and therefore Dodder of Time is hot and dry in the third degree whose vertues follow It purges Choller and Phlegm and therefore is good against Melancholly hardness of the Spleen Madness Faintings and the Quartane Ague windiness stopping of the Kidneys Itch Leprosie Vlcers and the French Pox It opens the Gall cleanses the Blood and is good against the Jaundies and strengthens the Liver and Spleen and is good against all hypocondriack passions Dodder of Nettles and Broom provokes Vrine and the other Dodders participate of the nature of the Plant whereon they grow and therefore have the same Vertues so that Mr. Culpepper was besides the saddle in attributing them all to the dominion of Saturn ☞ See more of this in the Expert Doctors Dispensatory written by P. Morellus ☞ See more of this in Adam in Eden by Will. Coles Dog-toothed Violet or Corral-wort Dentaria IT shooteth forth one or two winged leaves
swelling of the Cods and womens Breasts and asswageth pains of the Gout Sciatica and other pains in the joynts which proceed from a hot cause being applyed with Vinegar to the Temples it helps the Head-ache and causeth sleep the oyl of the seed helps deafness and noise in the Ears being dropped therein the decoction of the herb or seed kills Lice in man or beast if any one be distempered by taking it inwardly unawares let them drink Goats milk or Fennel seed Mustard seed Nettles seed Onions or Garlick in Wine Hagtaper Vide Mullein Hysop Hysopus IT needs no description Description and Names and Hysopus is both the Greek and Latine name and Hysop with us Places and Time It is most frequent in Gardens but I have seen it grow upon Walls it flowers in June or July and the seed is ripe in August Nature and Vertues It is an herb of Jupiter of temperature hot and dry in the third degree and of a cleansing quality it is excellent good for shortness of breath and diseases of the Liver and Lungs helpeth wheesings and rheumatick distillations it helps the Dropsie and Spleen it is good against the falling Sickness provokes Vrine and womens Courses The distilled water decoction and syrrup is very good for all stoppings and infirmities of the Lungs it takes away spots and bruises in the skin being boiled and the place bathed therewith it is good for the Quinzy boiled with Figs and the throat gargled therewith and boiled with Vinegar it helps the Tooth-ache being bruised and mixed with Salt Honey and Commyn seed it helps stinging of Serpents the green herb bruised with Sugar or fresh Butter soon heals a green Wound The oyl kills Lice and helps the Falling Sickness expectorates tough Phlegm and is good in all cold Diseases of the Breast and Lungs being taken in syrrup or other Medicines Take two handfuls of the tops of unset Hysop as much of the tops of Rosemary a few Anniseeds and some Liquorish sâ—eed boil it in two quarts of running water till a third part be consumed then sweeten it with Sugarcandy and drink it for an ordinary drink This I have often proved effectual for the Ptisick Coughs Rheumes Astma's and Catarrhs Holly Aquifolium IT is well enough known Description and Names the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and it s called in Latine Aquifolium and Agrifolium we call it Holme or Holly Bush in English Place and Time Hedges Woods and Commons are well acquainted with it they flower about June the berries ripe about Christmas the leaves green all the year There is one kinde called the Free Holly because it hath a smooth leaf the other prickly Holly which most commonly beareth the most berries Nature and Vertues The berries are by temperature hot and dry saith Dodoneus the plant Saturnine saith Culpepper but I believe he forgot himself ten or twelve of the green berries taken inwardly purge clammy and phlegmatick humours and help the Chollick but being dryed and taken in powder in wine or other drink they binde the Belly and stop Fluxes the Bark doth the same more powerfully A decocoction of the Bark of the roots is good to mollifie hardness and tumours where bones have been out of Joynt and helps to consolidate broken bones An handful of the berries boiled in a pint of Ale till half be consumed and then strained and a little butter added to it and five or six spoonfuls taken at once is said to be good to provoke Vrine and remedy the stopping of the Stone The Birdlime which is made of the Bark of Holly is good to draw out Thorns and Splinters that are in the flesh ☞ See further in Adam in Eden written by Will. Coles Holy-Thistle or Carduus Benedictus IT needs no description Description and Names growing not wilde in England the names are in Latine Carduus Benedictus in English Holy and blessed Thistle Places and Time It s natural soil is Lemnos and many of the Grecian Isles and being brought hither it is diligently preserved in our Gardens and obtained its name from its singuler vertues it is in flower about July or August which is the best time to gather it to keep all the year If it be sowen or sowe it self in August as sometimes it doth it will make its flower in April Nature and Vertues Carduus Benedictus is hot and dry in the second degree having a cleansing opening quality it is a bitter Martial Plant yet Cordial a resister of Poison the decoction thereof in posset drink is good against Stitches in the Sides and the Plurisie it provokes Vrine and the Courses cleanses the Stomach strengthens the Memory helps Deafness and swimming in the Head it expells pestilential humours by sweat and sometimes doth good in the beginning of Agues in regard it resists putrefaction it may be one of the Sub-Committee in curing the French Pox but it can never cure it of it self neither by Sympathy nor Antipathy as Culpepper affirms but his Ballad-monger hath contradicted all by adding the coupling of the Song viz. for Cure of al Diseases read my Riverius and Riolanus in English when as he pretends in the title to cure all Diseases for three pence charge and in truth was never acquainted with those Authours which are reported to be his Translation But to avoid any further digressions the herb is indeed somewhat Antivenerial the green herb hath also notable effects bruised and outwardly applyed to Plague Sores Botches and venomous bitings the powder thereof stops bleeding at Nose and the juyce and distilled water clears the sight it is good also in Gangreens and Vlcers being mixed with Hogs grease and a little wheat-flower Honey Suckles or Woodbinde Peryclymenum IT is very well known Description and hath no other English Names but what are in the Title the Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine Periclymenum and Caprifolium by some Sylvae matter and Lilium inter Spinas Place and Time It plentifully grows almost in every hedge and is planted upon Arbours and house Walls where it will give a fragrant smell in at the Windows It begins flowring in April and so continues all the Summer till the latter end of October if the season be milde as the last October about the latter end the hedges were full of then all the way from Tilbury to Stanford in Essex Nature and Vertues It is an herb of Mercury and hath a cleansing and digesting quality and is a very good herb in Mouth Waters for sores in the Mouth let Culpepper say what he will experience proves it A Syrrup or Conserve of the flowers or a decoction made of the herbs and flowers a good against diseases of the Lungs and Spleen and to expectorate tough Phlegm it likewise doth provoke Vrine and cause speedy delivery in Women and helps Cramps Convulsions and Palsies the distilled water is good to dry up Vlcers and cleanse the face from Sun-burnings
alone in beer and drunk it cools the heat of the Liver and Kidneys and helps the running of the Reins in men and the whites in Women it is good against Hectick Fevers and all other Fevers and Agues coming of Choker and all other heats of the Liver and takes away the cause of Scabs Blains and Blisters being stamped with Hogs Grease and applyed it heals Sores Tetters Ringworms and fretting Vlcers ☞ See further in Adam in Eden written by Will. Coles Loose-strife or Willow-herb Lysimachia THere are many kindes of it Description I shall describe onely the purple spike headed Loose-strife which groweth with many wooddy square stalks full of joynts about three foot high having two leaves at every joynt like Willow leaves but shorter and of a deeper green colour some of them being sometimes brownish the stalks branch forth into many long stems of spiky flowers half a foot long growing in rundles one above another out of small husks somewhat like the heads of Lavender but far bigger every flower consisting of five round pointed leaves of a purplish violet colour somewhat inclining to redness in the husks lies the seed after the flowers are fallen the root creeps under ground almost like Couch-grass but is greater Names The Latines call it Lysimachia in English Loose-strife and Willow-herb Place and Time It groweth by Rivers and Ditches sides and in wet grounds almost in every Countrey of this Land the yellow Willow herb is more rare They flower about June and July Nature and Vertues They are all hot dry and binding yet Culpepper saith they are cold and ascribes them to the Moon the distilled water of both the purple and the yellow is excellent good for green Wounds being thus applyed to every ounce of water adde two drams of May Butter unsalted as much Sugar and wax boil them gently to an Oyntment then dip tents in the Liquor that remains after it is cold and put them into the Wound covering it over with a linnen cloth doubled and anointed with the Oyntment it also cleanseth foul Vlcers The distilled water very much preserves the sight helps hurts and blowes in the Eyes and cleareth them of dust it is good to gargle the Mouth and Throat therewith against the Quinzy and Kings Evil it is also good to take away Warts and Scars of the Skin it quencheth thirst is good to stay Fluxes of the Belly the overflowing of Womens Courses and to bathe Sores and Vlcers of the privy parts Lovage Levisticum LOvage hath many long great stalks of large winged leaves Description divided like smallage but larger of a dark green colour smooth and shining every leaf cut about the edges and broader forward then toward the stalk the stalks are green and hollow towards the tops of them come forth other smaller branches bearing at their tops large Umbels of yellow flowers which turn into flat brownish seed like Angelica seed the root is large brownish without and white within the whole Plant is of a strong smell and in taste hot sharp and biting Names It is called Levisticum in Latine Places and Time It is an inhabitant of the Garden flowers in July and seeds in August Nature and Vertues Lovage is a Solar herb hot and dry in the third degree and of thin parts the dryed root in powder drunk in Wine is good for a cold Stomach consuming superfluouus moisture in the Stomach and Belly and expelling winde and helps digestion it likewise resists poison and infection The decoction of the root in Wine or Barley water cleanseth the Lungs provokes Vrine and Womens Courses and heals inward wounds The decoction of the herb is good for any sort of Ague and to help cold pains of the Bowels The seeds drunk in powder in white Wine fasting or boiled therein purges upwards and downwards and opens the stoppings of the Spleen take with the seeds the like quantity of Anniseeds and Fennil seeds to qualifie them The distilled water is good for the Quinzy and helps the plurisie being drunk three or four times it takes away the redness of the Eyes and helps the dimness of them being dropped therein and takes away spots and Freckles of the face The leaves bruised and fryed with Hogs Lard and applyed to a Botch or Boil will quickly break it Lungwort Pulmonaria IT is a kinde of Moss that grows on many Trees Description especially old Oaks and Beeches in dark shady old Woods and upon the old Oaks in Forrests grows abundance of it it hath broad grayish rough leaves diversly folded crumpled and gashed on the edges and sometimes spotted on the upper side it bears no stalk nor flower Names Pulmonaria Physicians call it in Latine and of some Lichen Arborum or wood Liverword and tree Lungwort Nature and Vertues It is of a cold and dry quality but I suppose that Jupiter rules it it is very effectual for all diseases of the Lungs for all obstructions Vlcers and inward inflammations of the same and also for Coughs Wheesing spitting and pissing of Blood it is good for Vlcers in the privy parts to stay Fluxes Looseness and Vomiting the bloody Flux and other Scowrings especially if they proceed of Choller Lupines Lupinus THey grow onely in Gardens here where they are planted Description therefore I shall not further describe them Lupinus is the Latine name and Lupines in English and of some they are called Fig beans being flat like a Fig that is pressed they flower in June and July and the beans are ripe quickly after Nature and Vertues Lupines are very bitter in taste by reason of their bitterness they open dissolve digest and cleanse I suppose they are under the dominion of Mars the decoction thereof is good for the Spleen being taken with Rue and Pepper it will be the pleasanter but if they be steeped two or three dayes in water they lose their bitterness The said decoction is good to kill worms and so is the meal taken with Honey or water and Vinegar or mixed with an Oxe gall and applyed to the Navel they also cleanse the Stomach help digestion and provoke appetite being first steeped in water and then dryed and powdered and taken with Vinegar The decoction also provokes Vrine and womens Courses and being taken with Myrrhe it expells a dead Childe it is also good to cleanse Scabs Vlcers Morphew and Tetters and cleanseth the Face and Skin from spots and other marks The meal boiled in Vinegar discusseth hard Swellings breaks Carbuncles and Imposthumes ☞ See more of this in The Expert Doctors Dispensatory by P. Morellus Ladies Smock Cuckow Flowers or wilde Water Cresses Cardamine THose kindes of these flowers which grow naturally with us in England are a kinde of Water-cresses for which cause they are called Nasturtium aquaticum minus and also Flos cuculi because they flower in April about the time the Cuckow uses to sing without hoarseness but for the Vertues if they have any they are of the nature of Water Cresses to
but the Jerusalem Artichokes which you may have plentiful enough if you will let them once take root in your Gardens being boiled tender and then stewed with Butter and Wine or how you please taste much like the bottom of an Artichoke and are no less nourishing then they ☞ See further of this in Culpeppers School of Physick Primrose Primulae Veris THese are very well known to be the Ladies of the Spring being the first that flower wherefore they are called in Latine Primulae Veris They are somewhat dry and astringent of temperature The leaves are good to apply to Inflammations and to heal burnings and scaldings and an Oyntment made thereof is excellent to heal green Wound they are very near in nature unto Cowslips to whose particular Vertues I refer you Privet THis is seldom used in Physick therefore I shall onely read to you its Uses because they that have it near them may use it when they cannot get other helps It is usually planted in Hedges in Gardens to make walks and knots and groweth wilde in many Woods and Parks of this Land It flowers in June and July and beareth ripe berries in September Nature and Vertues Privet is a Lunar Herb of temperature cold and dry the decoction of it is a good Lotion to wash sores and sore mouths to cool inflammations and dry up Fluxes The distilled water of the flowers is good for the same purposes and to stay womens Courses and Fluxes of the belly bleeding at mouth and distillations of Rheums in the Eyes being used with Tutia An Oyl made by infusion of the Flowers is good for inflamed Wounds and the Head-ache proceeding of an hot cause as saith Mathiolus Queen of the Meadows or Meadsweet Regina Prati MEadsweet springeth up with divers broad winged leaves Description deeply dented about the edges set on each side of a middle rib and are somewhat rough hard and crumpled like Elm-leaves having lesser leaves with them like Agrimony of a sad colour on the upper side and grayish underneath of a pleasant scent and taste like unto Burnet the stalks are reddish and grow two or three foot high having on them such leaves as those below but somewhat lesser at the tops whereof and of the branches stand many tufts of small white flowers thick together smelling sweeter then the leaves after which come crooked and cornered seed The Root is somewhat wooddy blackish on the outside but reddish within and is nourished by fibres so that it continues many years and hath also a good smell Names It is called in Latine Vlmaria because of the likeness between its leaves and Elm-leaves and also Regina prati Place and Time It grows frequently in moist Meadows by watery ditches and rivers sides it flowers in some place or other all the Summer Quarter Nature and Vertues Meadsweet is cold and dry with an astringent quality and ascribed to Venus Two or three of the leaves put into a cup of Claret giveth it a fine rellish and also maketh the heart merry and chearful The decoction thereof in wine helpeth the Chollick and taken warm with a little honey it opens the belly but being boiled in red wine and drunk it stayes Looseness The decoction thereof is good to heal sores in the mouth or secret parts The distilled water helps Inflammations of the Eyes and clears the Sight The smell of the flowers make the heart chearful and therefore are excellent to adorn houses the root helps horses of the Bots and Worms and so it would do in men if they drink the decoction thereof and therefore the Germans call it Wormkrant the worm-plant The root likewise made into powder or boiled and drunk powerfully sâ—â—yes Womens Courses the Whites the Bloody Flux Lâ—â—k and all other Fluxes of Blood and is good against vomiting and it is said that if it be boiled in wine and drunk it first altereth and afterwards taketh away the fits of Agues Quince-Tree Malus Cydonia I Suppose the Tree but especially the fruit to be so well known they need no description Names It is called in Latine Malus Cydonia and Cotonea The Spaniards call it Membrillio and Marmello from whence comes the word Marmalade Place and Time They delight to grow near ponds and waters sides and are plentiful in this Land It flowers in April and May and the Fruit is ripe about Michaelmas Nature and Vertues They are cold in the first and dry in the second degree they are earthy and binding the Fruit is not durable and is harsh and unpleasant to eat raw but being scalded roasted baked or preserved they become very pleasant They are Saturnine The Syrrup of the Juyce of Quinces strengthens the heart and stomach relieves nature stayes looseness and vomiting for looseness take a spoonful of it before meat for vomiting after meat It corrects Choller and Phlegm and helps Digestion To make Quinces purging put honey to them instead of sugar and if you would have them more laxative then to purge Choller adde Rhabarb for Phlegm Turbith and for watry humours Scammony If you would have them binde forceably use the unripe Quinces with Roses Acacia or Hypocistis and some Rhabarb torrefied The juyce of raw Quinces is accounted an Antidote against deadly poyson and it hath been found certain that the smell of a Quince hath taken away the strength of white Hellebore outwardly to binde and cool hot fluxes the Oyl of Quinces or other medicines made thereof are available to anoint the belly or other parts therewith It also strengthens the stomach belly and sinews and restrains immoderate sweatings The muscilage of the seeds boiled in water is good to allay the heat and heal the sore breasts of women and with Sugar it is good to lenifie the hoarseness and harshness of the throat and roughness of the tongue The Marmalade is both toothsome and wholesome and a decoction of the doun that grows upon the Quinces is good to restore lost hair and being made up with Wax and applyed as a plaister it bringeth hair to them that are bald and keepeth it from falling if it be ready to shed Radish Rhaphanus THe Garden Radish needs no description it is called in Latine Rhaphanus Nature and Vertues Radishes are rather a sawce then a nourishment they are hot in the third degree and dry in the second and do open and make thin and is governed by Mars The roots do provoke urine and so doth the distilled water the root stamped with honey and the powder of a sheeps heart causeth hair to grow The seed causeth vomiting and provoketh urine and being drunk with Oximel or honied water it drives forth Worms The root boiled in broth is good against an old Cough it moveth womens Courses and increases milk and is good for the Dropsie the Chollick gripings in the belly and griefs of the Liver It is good for them which are sick with eating Toadstools or other poison they are much used as sawce with meat to
effectual for inward and outward bruises falls and blows to disperse the congealed blood and take away the pains and black and blue marks that abide after the hurt and the distilled water of the whole herb cleanseth the skin from Morphew Freckles and Spats making it fair and smooth Sampire Feniculum marinum ROck Sampire springeth up with a tender green stalk Description about half a yard high or two foot at the most branching forth almost from the bottom set with many thick almost round and somewhat long leaves of deep green colour three together and sometimes more on a stalk full of sap and of a pleasant hot or spicy taste at the tops of the stalks and branches stand Umbels of white flowers after which come large seed somewhat like Fennel seed but bigger The root is great white and long of a pleasant smell and taste and abideth many years Names The Greeks call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Feniculum Marinum and in Shops Creta marina in English Sampire and Sea Fennel Place and Time The Cliffts in the Isle of Wight abound with it where it is incredibly dangerous to gather yet many adventure it though they buy their sauce with the price of their lives It groweth also about the Rocky Cliffts upon the Sea coast in most parts of England It flourisheth in May and June and is fittest to be gathered in the beginning of August It flowers and seeds in August Nature and Vertues Sampire is of a cleansing faculty and is hot and dry about the second degree and herb attributed to the influence of Jupiter Pickled Sampire is an excellent sauce for digestion of meats it breaks the Stone and expells Gravel out of the Reins and Bladder and provokes Vrine and womens Courses The decoction of the leaves seeds and roots in wine being drunk helps ill digestion and opens obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and of the Entrails which are the causes of most diseases it is grateful both to the taste and stoâ—◠〈◊〉 and helps to whet a dull appetite by the saltness and spiciness that is in it The way to preserve it in pickle is to boil it in water till it be tender and then pickle it up in a Barrel with a liquor made of Vinegar Water and Salt Saunders Santalum THere are three sorts of this plant brought unto us Kindes and Names viz. Santalum Rubrum Red Saunders Santalum Album or white Saunders and Santalum Citrinum or Flavum yellow Saunders they are all brought unto us from the East Indies where they naturally grow about the River Ganges and in the Isle of Timor and provinces adjacent Nature and Vertues Of all these three kindes of Saunders the yellow is the best the next is the white the red is least in use they are Solar Plants yet by temperature cold and dry in the second degree the red is more cooling and binding they open and cool the Liver and ease pain of the Head and are good to strengthen and revive the Spirits for which purpose they are used in Jellies Sauces and Broths c. they are likewise good in hot burning diseases as Fevers and such like The red Saunders applyed to Maids or Womens great Breasts mixed with the juyce of Purslain abateth their greatness and represseth their growing too big it is likewise effectual to stanch Blood at the Nose or other place being taken in red Wine and is used to slay defluctions of thin Rheume from the head and to cool and temper the heat in hot Agues hot Gouts and Insflammations In cordial medicines the white and yellow Saunders are most effectual by reason of their sweetness they help faintings of the Heart and weak Stomachs caused by heat they divert Melancholly and procure Mirth they stay the spermatical flux in man or woman The powder taken in a rear Egge or mixed with other things for that purpose or being infused in red Wine all night in Balneo or hot Embers and the Wing strained and drunk morning and evening for all inflammations it is very effectual being mixed with the juyce of Housleek Nightshade or Purslain outwardly they are good in Fomentations and Epithems against the intemperate heat of the Liver and being applyed with Rose water to the Temples they ease pains of the Head and stay the flowing of humours into the Eyes Sanile Sanicula SAnicle springeth up with many leaves of a middle size Description deeply cut or divided into five or six parts and some of them cut also sometimes standing upon brownish foot stalks about a handful high somewhat like the leaves of Crow-foot or the broadest sort of Anemonies finely dented about the edges smooth and of a dark green shining colour and sometimes reddish about the brims amongst which rise up small round green stalks without any joynt or leaf but at the top where it brancheth into flowers having a leaf divided into three or four parts at that joynt with the flowers which are small and white growing out of small round greenish yellow heads standing on a tuft together which afterwards contains small round burry seeds sticking unto any thing like the seeds of Cleavers The root consists of many black strings set together at a little long head which abideth with the green leaves all the winter Names It is called in Latine Sanicula from its efficacy in healing Wounds and by Lobel Diapensia in English Sanicle There is a sort called Pinguicula Eboracensis Butter-wort and Butter-root because of the oyliness of the leaf Place and Time It grows in woody shadowy places and under hedges in many places of this Land it flowers in July and the seed is ripe soon after nature and Vertues Sanicle is hot and dry in the second degree bitter in taste and somewhat astringent Culpepper ascribes it to Venus but I judge Mercury hath the greater influence upon it but the Sun most of all It is an excellent herb for any infirmity of the Lungs and is a singular good wound herb speedily healing all green Wounds and also Vlcers Imposthumes and bleeding inwardly and it dissipateth and represseth Tumors in any part of the Body if the decoction or juyce be taken or the powder in drink and apply the juyce outwardly The decoction of the leaves and root with a little honey added to it heals putrid and malignant Vlcers in the Mouth Throat and Privities by gargling and washing them therewith it helps to stay womens Courses and and all other Fluxes of blood and Lasks of the Belly ulcerations of the Kidneys pains in the Bowels and the running of the Reins being boiled in wine or water and drunk it is effectual to heal Burstings or Ruptures either inwardly or outwardly as well as any of the Consounds or other vulnerary herb whatsoever Of it also may be made an oyntment good for obstructions of the Liver and a syrrup or conserve for the Lungs Sauce alone or Jack by the Hedge THis herb as well as Wood-Sage is by some
Imposthumes in the Nails and Joynts called Felons and Whitlows from the essectual curing of which it took its Name The Willow Tree Salix THe several kindes hereof are very well known save onely in their Physical Uses Names Salix is the Latine Name in English Sallow Willow Withy and Osier Nature and Vertues The Plant is Lunar of temperature cold and dry in the second degree and astringent both the leaves bark and catkins are used to stay bleeding of wounds and at the mouth and nose spitting of blood and other Fluxes and to stay vomiting and the desire thereunto if the decoction of them in wine be drunk It also helps to stay thin sharp hot and salt distillations from the head upon the Lungs which cause a Consumption The leaves bruised with Pepper and drunk in wine do help the Winde Chollick The leaves or catkins which we in Hampshire call Goss-chicken I suppose because they bud forth at such time when Geese have young bruised and boiled in wine and drunk often doth abate the heat of lust and by much usage doth extinguish it either in man or woman If you slit the bark of a Willow so that you may fit a vessel to it to receive a water that will flow or issue from it at the time when it flowereth the same water is good to clear the sight and take away redness of the Eyes and Films that begin to grow over them and to stay Rheums that fall into them to clear the face and skin from spots and to provoke Vrine The flowers boiled in white wine and drunk dry up humours and so doth the bark the ashes of the bark mixed with Vinegar takes away warts and corns and callous stesh in the hands and feet or other parts The decoction of the bark and leares in wine is good to bathe the sinnews and places pained with the Gout to cleanse the head of scurf and dandriff The juyce of the leaves and barks mingled with Rosewater and heated in a Pomegranate shell is good to drop into the ears to help Deafness a bathe made of the decoction of the leaves and bark doth strengthen restore and nourish withered and dead members Woad Glastum IT groweth up with many large long smooth Description greenish leaves amongst which riseth up a stalk two or three foot high having divers smaller leaves thereon it brancheth at the top whereon appear small yellow flowers after which come long and somewhat flat husks wherein the seed is contained black and hanging downwards The seed being a little chewed gives an Azure Colour The Root is white and long Names Mannured Woad is called Glastum sativum and wilde Woad Glastum silvestre and Isatis Glaslum Indicum Indico or Indian Woad Place and Time It is planted in Fields and Gardens for the benefit of it being used by Dsers it yields three Crops a year and a stinking scent after it is gathered before it is made up for use It flowers about June if it be suffered to run up to flower Nature and Vertues It is cold and dry an astringent Saturnine Plant so drying and binding that it is not fit to be used in any inward medicine but an Oyntment made thereof stancheth bleeding and a Plaister thereof takes away hardness and swelling of the Spleen being applyed to the Region thereof The said Oyntment is good to dry moist Vlcers to take away fretting and corroding humours to cool Inflammations St. Anthonies fire and stay defluxions of blood to any part of the body It is affirmed to be destructive to Bees to prevent which if it grow near any Bees the way is to set urine by them putting it in a vessel with slices of Cork therein that thereon they may save themselves from drowning Woodbynde vide Honey-suckles Wormwood Absynthium THere are three kindes usual with us Common Wormwood Sea Wormwood and Roman Wormwood Names Common Wormwood is called in Latine Absynthium and the Sea Wormwood Seryphium and Santonicum Place and Time They are all well enough known the Roman Wormwood is planted in Gardens the Sea Wormwood groweth by the Sea-Coasts and the common Wormwood groweth wilde in all Countreys in England and generally near Smiths Forges They all flower about August Nature and Vertues Common Wormwood is hot in the second degree and dry in the third of a cleansing binding and strengthening quality it is subjected to the Influence of Mars It strengthens the Stomach like Aloes drawing from the Stomach and Intestines Choller and Phlegm whether it be taken in powder or decoction or the juyce by it self or the infusion in wine or beer but it offends the head causing drowsiness and sleepiness and that drink called Purle offends the head of some causing it to ake It is not good for hot Stomachs nor for those that are subject to the Consumption of the Lungs Falling-Sickness Apoplexy Lethargy and continual Feavers I have known many receive much hurt by drinking Wormwood Beer and Ale therefore it ought to be used cautiously and moderately and given to bodies fitting for it and so being discreetly used it purgeth Choller from the Reins and Bladder by Vrine It is good in the Green Sickness Jaundies and Dropsie helps Obstructions in the Liver and Stomach the Chollick and gripings of the Belly it preserves the Blood from putrefaction resists Drunkenness helps vomiting at Sea and killeth Worms It cleanseth the Womb and Vterine parts drives away the Hiccough procures a good appetite expells Winde helps Crudities and prevails in intermitting Agues and Obstructions of the Entrails Vinegar wherein Wormwood hath been boiled helps a stinking breath proceeding from the teeth or stomach and provokes Womens Courses and helps such as have hurt themselves by eating Toad-stools being but steeped in vinegar and drunk Wormwood-wine is good for all the forementioned purposes except for such as have Fevers Being outwardly applyed it kills worms in the belly or stomach the juyce with honey helpeth dim Eyes and mixed with Nitre it helps the Quinzie being anointed therewith and likewise mingled with Honey and anointed it takes away black and blue spots in the skin The decoction thereof received by a Funnel helpeth sore and running Ears and the Tooth-ache and the Temples bathed therewith it helps the Head-ache proceeding from a cold cause being bruised and applyed with Rosewater to the stomach it comforts such as have been long sick Being used with Figs Vinegar and Darnel-meal it helps hardness of the Spleen and a hot sharp water running between the flesh and the skin if the skin be rubbed with the juyce or oyl of Wormwood it keepeth away Fleas and Knats and the Herb laid in Presses or Chests amongst Clothes preserves them from Moaths and Worms Xylo Aloe THis Indian Tree is called by the Grecians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Latine also Xylo aloes and Lignum Aloes In English Wood of the Aloe-tree Lign Ales and Wood Aloes It groweth in Malana and Sumatra places in the East Indies