roots or the juice of them when they are fresh worketh the same effects and in callous Ulcers with the juice of the roots if a little Verdigrease be added it worketh a good effect The hurtfull qualitie It is hurtfull for Cholerick persons and such as have windie bodies and their bowels stopt The Dose The root is given from a scruple to a dram in powder CHAP. 4. Of Brook-lime The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Becabunga in English Brook-lime It is hot and dry like Watercresses yet not so much The inward Vse Brook-lime and Watercresses are generally used together much in Diet Beeres and Ales with other things serving to purge and clense the blood from those ill humours that would overthrow the health thereof It is very useful in the Scurvie breaks the Stone provokes Urine and Womens Courses and expels the dead Birth It doth profit much in the Dropsie The outward Vse Being fried with Butter and Vinegar and applied warm it helpeth all manner of tumours and swellings and Saint Anthonies fire also if it be often renewed The hearb boyled maketh a good Fomentation for the smollen Legs and the Dropsie The leaves boyled and stamped in a stone morter with the powder of Fenegreek Linseed the roots of Marish Mallowes and some Hogs grease unto the form of a Pultis taketh away any swelling in leg or arm wounds also that are ready to fall into Apostemation it mightily defendeth that no humour or accident shall happen thereunto Farriers doe use it about their horses to take away swellings to heal the scab and other like diseases in them Of such things as are made thereof The juice The syrupe which is thus made Take of the juice of Brook-lime and of the juice of Scurvie-grasse of each a pound and a half of Sugar one pound or one pound and an half clarifie the juice with the white of an Egg and then boyl it to a syrupe of which take a spoonfull morning and Evening This is excellent in the Scurvie CHAP. 5. Of Bugle The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Bugula Consolida media in English Bugle or brown Bugle and middle Cumfrey or Consound It is temperate in heat but drying moderately and somewhat astringent The inward Vse It is of excellent use for such as have caught any fall or are inwardly bruised for it dissolveth the congealed blood and disperseth it by taking the Decoction of the leaves and flowers made in wine the same is no lesse effectual for any inward wounds thrusts or stabs into the body or bowels and is an especial help in all wound drinks as also for those that are Liver-grown as they call it which ariseth from the stoppings of the Liver and Gall and strengthning the parts afterwards It helpeth the Jaundise and Ruptures as also such as have broken any bone The outward Vse It is wonderful in curing all manner of Ulcers and Sores whether new or fresh or old yea Gangreens and Fistulaes also either the leaves bruised and applied or their juice used to wash and bathe the places and the same made into a lotion with some Hony of Roses and Allom cureth all sores of the mouth and gums be they never so foul or of long continuance it worketh no lesse effectually for Ulcers and Sores in the secret parts of Men and Women It helpeth broken bones being thereto applied An Ointment made with the leaves of Bugle Scabious and Sanicle bruised and boyled in Hogs grease until the herbs be drie and then strained forth and kept in a pot is found so singular good for all sorts of hurts in the body that I would not wish any that desire to doe good to themselves or others to be without it CHAP. 6. Of Carawayes The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Carum Careum but usually Carvum in English Caraway Carawayes and Caruway Caraway seeds are hot and drie as Galen saith almost in the third Degree and have withall a moderate sharp qualitie The Duration The Seeds will keep good a year or two The inward Vse Caraway-seed breaketh wind provoketh urine and is pleasant and comfortable to the stomach helping digestion and also conduceth to all cold griefs of the head and stomach the bowels or mother as also the wind in them and helpeth to sharpen the eye sight It is good in the swimming of the head The seeds are much used in Bread Cakes c. to give a relish to them Caraway Comfits are of the same nature The outward Vse The powder of the seed put into a Poultis taketh away black and blew spots of blowes or bruises The herb it self or with some of the seed bruised and fryed laid hot in a double cloth to the lower parts of the belly doth ease the pain of the wind Collick The hurtful qualitie They must not be used in very hot and drie bodies Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water of the herb Caraway Comfits Chymicall Oyle CHAP. 7. Of Celandine the greater and lesser The Names and Temperament THe greater is called Chelidonium majus and Hirundinaria major in English great Celandine It is hot and drie in the third Degree and of a cleansing facultie The lesser is called in Latine Chelidonium minus and Hirundinaria minor in English small Celandine and Pilewort It is not so hot as the greater The inward Vse The greater Celandine openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Gall and thereby helpeth the yellow Jaundies the herb or the roots being boyled in white wine with a few Anniseeds and drunk the same helpeth the Dropsie Itch and sores in the legs or other parts of the body The juice taken fasting with Sugar or the distilled water is commended against the Plague or Pestilence especially if a little good Treacle be mixed therewith and they upon the taking thereof laid down to sweat a little The outward Vse The juice dropped in the eyes doth clense them from films and clouds that darken them but it is best to mixe with it a little breast milk It is good in old filthy eating ulcers in any place to stay their fretting and running and to cause them to heal the more speedily the juice often applied to Tetters Ringworms or such like will quickly kill their sharpnesse and heal them also and it taketh away Warts also being rubbed on them The herb with the roots bruised and heated with Oyle of Camomil and applied to the Navil taketh away the griping pain in the belly and all pains of the mother and applied to Womens breasts that have their Courses too much stayeth them the juice or the Decoction of the herb gargled between the teeth that ake taketh away the pain and the powder of the dried root laid upon an aking hollow or loose tooth will as they say cause it quickly to fall out the juice mixed with some powder of Brimstone cureth the itch and taketh away all the discolourings of the skin whatsoever be they spots or
bruised and laid upon the crown or seam of the head stayeth bleeding at the nose very quickly The leavs being gently rubd on any stung with netles or bees or any venemous Creature doth presently take away the pain The distilled water of the herb is good for the purposes aforesaid Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water The Juice Syrupe CHAP. 21. Of Hysope The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Hyssopus and Hyssopum in English Hysope and Hyssope It is hot and drie in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good a year being dried The inward Vse Hysope boyled with Rue and Hony and drunk doth help those that are troubled with Coughs shortnesse of breath wheesing and Rheumatick distillations upon the Lungs taken also with Orymel or water and honey it purgeth grosse humours by the stool and with honey killeth worms in the belly It amendeth the native colour of the body spoyled by the yellow Jaundise helpeth the Dropsie and the Spleen if it be taken with Figs and Nitar It is good in the Falling-sicknesse provokes Vrine expels wind and brings down Womens Courses and easeth the sharp fits of Agues The distilled water is good for the same diseases but doth not work so effectually as the Decoction The syrupe also hath the same vertue The manner of administering it It is given in Pils Decoction and in Electuaries Pils against the Falling-sicknesse Take of Hysope Horehound and Castoreum of each half a dram of the Root of Male Peony two drams of Assa-fetida one scruple with the juice of Hysope make Pils and take two or three of them every night so long as they last A Decoction good against the Cough and tough Flegme Take of Hysope one handful Figs two Ounces Sugar-candie one Ounce boyl them in a quart of Muscadine until half a pint be consumed strain it and drink a small draught thereof morning and evening The outward Vse It taketh away black and blew spots and marks that come by strokes bruises or fals being boyled and the places bathed therewith It is an excellent Medicine for the Quinsie to wash and gargle the throat being boyled with Figs it helpeth the Tooth-ache being boyled in Vinegar and gargled therewith the hot vapours of the Decoction taken by a Funnel in at the Eares easeth the inflammations of them Mesue saith the singing noyse of them being bruised and Salt Honey and Cummin-seed put to it helpeth those that are stung by Serpents The green Herbs bruised any a little Sugar put to it doth quickly heal any green wound or cut in the hand or else where The Oyl thereof being anointed killeth Lice and taketh away the itching of the head The hurtfull Qualitie Hot and drie bodies must be sparing in the use of it Plinie saith it is an enemy to the stomach and provoketh casting it is best in the Spring and Winter and that for aged and Flegmatick persons and all such as abound with cold and rheumatick humours Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Conserve of the Flowers Species Diahyssopu Syrupe both Simple and Compound Oyle CHAP. 22. Of Knotgrasse The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Polygonum and Ceutumnodia from the many joynts or knots that every branch hath It is cold in the second or third Degree of a binding Nature The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse The Juice or Decoction thereof is most effectual to stay any bleeding at the mouth and to cool and temper the heat of the blood or of the stomach and to stay any flux of the blood or humours either of the belly or womb as Courses in Women or the running of the Reins also The juice given before the Tertian or Quartane Ague comes is said to drive it away it is also good to provoke Urine when it is stopped as also when it passeth away by drops and with pain and when it is hot and sharp also to take a dram of the Powder of the Herb in wine for many dayes together being boyled in Wine and drunk it helpeth those that are stung or bitten by venemous Creatures and the same is very effectual to stay all falling down of humours rheumatick upon the stomach and killeth Worms in the belly or stomach and easeth all inward pains that arise from heat sharpnesse and corruption of blood and choller and is good for inward wounds The distilled water taken by it self or with the powder of the herb or seed is very effectual to all the purposes aforesaid The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse The juice hereof stayeth the bleeding of the nose being applied to the forehead and temples or to be squirted up into the nose the same cooleth all manner of inflammations even Saint Anthonies fire or any other breaking forth of heat all hot swellings and impostumations all eating and sweating or burning sores and fistulous Cancers or foul filthie Vlcers being applied or put into them but especially for all sorts of Vlcers and sores in the privie parts of Men or Women restraining the humours from falling to them and cooling and drying up the hot and moist inflammations that are apt to to follow such sores in such places It keepeth all fresh and green wounds by restraining the blood and quickly closeth up the lips of them the juice dropped into the ears helpeth them wonderfully although they are foul and have running matter in them It helpeth also the inflammation of the eyes being put therein The Dose The Dose in Powder is from half a dram to a dram Of such medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 23. Of White Lilly The Names and Temperament It is called in Latine Lilium Album and Rosa Junonis in English White Lilly The Leaves or Flowers are hot and moist and partly of a subtile substance the root is drie in the first Degree and hot in the second The inward Vse The Roots boyled in honied water and drunk driveth forth by the siege all corruption of blood as Plinie saith The seeds are good to be taken against the biting of Serpents and expelleth the poyson of the Pestilence causing it to break forth in blisters in the outward part of the skin being taken in VVine or the roots stamped and strained with wine and given to drinke for two or three dayes together The juice tempered with Barley meale and baked in cakes and so eaten ordinarily for a moneth or sixe weeks together with meat and no other bread during that time is said to cure the Dropsie The distilled water being taken is said to cause easie and speedy deliverance and to expel the after Birth The same water is used in diseases of the Lungs shortnesse of Breath the Cough c. The outward Vse The Root rosted and well mixed with Oyle of Roses doth soften the hardnesse of the Matrix and provoketh the Courses in Women being laid thereupon The same
It is used for colds and coughs and shortnesse of breath The juice thereof drunk in Wine is profitable for those that are bruised The manner of Administring It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse A bath made thereof and used or to sit over the hot Fumes doth help to bring down womens Courses help barrennesse and warm those parts The green herb bruised and applied to the Fundament there abiding for two or three houres easeth the sharp pains of the piles the juice also is effectual for the same purpose being made up into an Ointment and applied A Decoction thereof is commended to wash the head to take away the scabs thereof and may be effectual for other parts of the body also CHAP. 28. Of Onions The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Cepa in English Onions They are hot and drie in the fourth Degree The inward Vse Onions provoke the appetite ease the pains of the belly provoke urine and womens Courses help the biting of a mad Dog and of other venemous creatures to be used with a little Honey and Rue and increase Sperme especially the seed They also kill the worms in children if they drink the water fasting wherein they have been steeped all night being rosted under the Embers and eaten with Honey and Sugar and Oyle they help an old Cough by cutting the tough Flegme and causing it to be easily spit forth It is counted by many a good preservative against infection to eat Onions fasting with bread and salt Onions sliced and dipped in the juice of Sorrel and given to one sick of a Tertian Ague to eat taketh away the fit in once or twise so taking them The manner of Administering them The best way to use them is to boyl them and so to eat them with Butter Vinegar and Pepper or to lay them a steep some time in water and so to eat them The outward Vse The juice snuffed up into the nostrils purgeth the head and helpeth the Lethargie and is good also for scalding or burning by fire water or gunpowder and used with Vinegar taketh away all blemishes spots and marks in the skinne and dropped into the eares easeth the pains and noise in them applyed also with Figs beaten together helpeth to ripen and break Impostumes and other sores especially being first rosted in Embers stamped with Salt Rue and Hony and so applied they are good against the biting of a mad Dog The juice of Onions mixed with the Decoction of Pennirial and a cloth wet therein and applied easeth the Gout Some take a great Onion and being made hollow they fill the place with good Treacle and then roast it well under Embers after which let the outermost skins be taken away and being well beaten and applied to any Plague sore or putrid ulcer they say it is a soveraign Medicine The juice mixed with Hony and a bald head anointed therewith causeth the hair to grow again They provoke the Hemorrhoides being laid unto them either by themselves or stamped with Vinegar They help Kibes being roasted and applied with butter or hogs-grease The hurtful qualitie Being too often or immoderately eaten raw they breed ill and corrupt humours in the stomach inflame the blood increase thirst cause drowsinesse and the head-ache hurt the sight dull and disturb the memorie and understanding They are hurtful to young men and chollerick persons They are flatulent or windie CHAP. 29. Of Osmund royal The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Osmunda regalis of the singular properties therein also Filix aquatica in English Osmund royal Osmund the waterman water Fern and Zut Christophers herb The root is hot and drie The Duration The root will keep good two or three years The inward Vse The Decoction of the leaves or roots drunk is useful for Ruptures or burstings as also for such as have falled or bruised themselves or have any inward wound and giveth ease to the Collick and splenetick diseases The powder hath the sams vertue and is excellent for such as cannot hold their water The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or powder The outward Vse It is singular in wounds bruises broken bones Ruptures or burstings boyled into an Ointment or Oyle as a Balsame or Balme or boyled in astringent wine and so applied in manner of a Poultis The Dose The Dose of the root in powder is from half a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water of the leaves Syrupe CHAP. 30. Of Parsley The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Petroselinum in English Parsley or garden Parsley It is hot and dry in the second Degree the seed hot in the second Degree and drie almost in the third the root is also of a moderate heat The inward Vse It is much used in meats and brothes in all Countries and doth help to provoke Urine and Womens Courses and to break wind both in the stomach and bowels and doth a little open the body but the root much more and openeth the stoppings of both Liver and Spleen and is profitable for the yellow Jaundise and Dropsie Galen commendeth it against the Falling-sicknesse and to provoke Urine mightily especially if the roots be boyled and eaten with Parsneps The seed is held by most to be most effectual yet some do think the root to be strongest but the seed is effectual to provok Vrine and Womens Courses to expel winds to breake the stone and to ease the pains and torments thereof or of any other part in the stomach and body procured by wind and also is effectual against venome and is put therefore into counterpoysons for that purpose as also against the danger that cometh to them that have taken Litharge it is also used among other things that serve for the Cough The seeds boyled in white wine and taken help to bring away the Birth and after Birth The distilled water of the herb is much used by Nurses for Children against wind and gripings in the belly or stomach The manner of administering it It is chiefly used in Decoction A Decoction against the Jaundise Dropsie Falling-sicknesse Stone in the Reins Take of Parsly seeds Fennel Aniseed and Carrawayes of each an Ounce of the roots of Parsly Burnet Saxi frage and Carrawayes of each one Ounce and a half let the seeds be bruised and the roots washed and cut small let them all be steeped in a pottle of white wine one night and in the morning boyled in a close earthen vessel until a third part or more be wasted which being strained and cleared take foure Ounces thereof at a time morning and evening first and last abstaining from drink for three houres after The outward Vse The leaves of Parsly laid to the eyes that are inflamed with heate or are swollen doth much help them if it be used with bread or meal and being laid to womens hard breasts that come by the curding of their
first or second Degree The Duration They will keep good two or three years The inward Vse These Seeds being taken in VVine killeth VVorms increaseth Blood and Sperme It is also good against the Serpent called Amphisbaena It is comfortable to the Stomach by heating and drying the cold and moisture thereof helpeth the Digestion and expresseth the Vapours therein that rise upwards and resisteth forcible pains of the VVind Collick and the stopping of Urine They are very convenient for cold Phlegmatick and Rheumatick bodies Coriander Comfits taken after meat closeth up the mouth of the stomach stayeth vomiting and helpeth digestion These Seeds must be prepared before they are used which is done by steeping them all night and a day in wine Vinegar and then dry them and keep them for your use The hurtfull Qualitie They are counted hurtful for such as have the Head-ache Falling-sicknesse and swimming of the Head Of such things as are made thereof Coriander Comfits Chymical Oyle CHAP. 13. Of Cowslips The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Herba Paralysis in English Cowslip They are moderately drie and a little hot The Duration They will keep good a year The inward Vse They are used in the Apoplexie Palsie and such like diseases of the head in arthritical Pains Gouts and Convulsions The roots made into a Decoction and taken easeth the pains of the back and bladder opening the passages of Urine which was the cause thereof The juice of the leaves is good for such as have their inward parts hurt rent or broken The conserve of Cowslip is profitable in the Palsey Apoplexie weaknesse of the Joynts c. The outward Vse The juice of the Flowers or the distilled water is used to cleanse the skin from spots or discolourings therein as also to take away the wrinckles thereof and cause the skin to become smooth and fair The Flowers or Leaves bruised and applied helpeth the joynt-gout and swellings that arise from the stinging of venemous creatures An Ointment or Oyle made with the juice of Cowslips and Linseed Oyle cureth burnings and scaldings Of such things as are made thereof Conserve of Cowslip The distilled Water Syrupe Oyle by infusion Vineger CHAP. 14. Of Cummin-seed The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Caminum and Cyminum in English Cummin-seed It is hot and drie in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good two or three years The inward Vse Cummin-seed dissolveth wind in the body and easeth the pains of the Collick being boyled in Wine and drunk and is used as a correctour of any windie meats it helpeth also those that are bitten by Serpents taken in the same manner The same taken in Beere or Posset drink is good for those that are short winded or are otherwise troubled with an old cough or the disease of the breast to boyle the same with Figs in Wine It is very useful in the Dropsie called Tympanie and in giddinesse of the head The outward Vse Being boyled in Wine and so made into a Poultis it taketh the swellings of the Codds by wind or a waterish humour if it be applied thereto with Barley meale It helpeth also other cold pains and swellings being thus applied It stoppeth bleeding of the nose being mixed with Vinegar and smelt to and boyled in Water and the lower parts bathed therewith stayeth the bounding Courses of Women Cummin-seed bruised and fried with an hard Egg and laid to the nod of the neck easeth an old head-ache and stayeth the rheume that falleth into the eyes or are blood-shotten or else the powder mixed with wax into the form of a Plaster and applied warm to the eyes will soon help it and take it away Being applied to the belly with Wine and Barley meale boyled together to the form of a Poultis it easeth the gripings and torments of the belly Being quilted in a little bag with a smal quantitie of Bay salt and made hot upon a Bed-pan with fire or such like and sprinkled with good Wine Vinegar and applied to the side very hot it taketh away the stitch and pains thereof and easeth the Pleurisie The hurtfull qualitie It must not be used in very hot dry and chollerick bodies If it be much used either inwardly or outwardly it is said to make the party look pale Of such medicines as are made thereof The Species Diacuminu Chymical Oyle CHAP. 15. Of Devils-bit The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Morsus Diaboli and Succisa in English Devils-bit and Forebit It is hot and dry in the second Degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward Vse It is very profitable against the Plague and all Pestilential diseases or poysons and the bitings of venemous beasts the hearb or root being boyled in Wine and drunk the same also helps those that are inwardly bruised by any fal or crusht by any casualtie dissolving the clotted or congeald blood and voyding it by stool or otherwise The Decoction of the Hearb wherein some Hony of Roses is put is very effectual to help inveterate tumours and swellings of the Almonds and throat which do hardly come to ripenesse for it digesteth cleanseth and consumeth the flegme sticking thereto It helpeth also to procure womens Courses and to ease all pains of the Mother to break winds therein and in the bowels The powder of the root taken in Beere or Posset drink driveth forth VVorms in the body It is useful in the Falling-sicknesse French Poxe and inward wounds The distilled water is effectual for the aforesaid diseases The manner of administering it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse The Hearb or Root bruised and applyed taketh away the black and blew marks after bruises and such like A decoction of the Hearb with some Hony of Roses mixed therein helpeth tumour and swellings of the throat and Almonds if the mouth and throat be often gargled or washed therewith The juice or distilled water of the Hearb is as effectual for green wounds and old sores as the Scabiouses be and cleanseth the head from scurffe and sores and the skin from itches pimples freckles Morphew or other deformities thereof but especially if a little Vitriol be dissolved therein The Dose It is given in Powder from half a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water The Juice CHAP. 16. Of Dropwort The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Filipendula and Philipendula in English Philipendula and Dropwort It is hot and drie in the third Degree opening and cleansing yet a little binding It is called Dropwort because it helpeth such as have their Urine stopt and pisse by drops The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward Vse It is very effectual to provoke Urine as also to help the Strangurie and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins helping mightily to break and expel the Stone either in the Kidneyes or Bladder and also to bring away the gravel
Decoction The outward Vse The juice or the herb bruised and put into the nose stoppeth the bleeding thereof The same chewed helpeth the tooth-ache and all stinging of venemous beasts being thereto applied The same mingled with milk and oyl of Roses and put into the Matrix in a Pessary or in other Suppository taketh away the pains thereof Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Pilewort See Celandine CHAP. 34. Of garden and wild Poppies The Names and Temperament THe white Poppy is called in Latine Papaver album sativum the black Papaver nigrum sativum the red Papaver rubrum sativum the red wild Poppie is called Papaver Rhaeas Papaver erraticum and Sylvestre in English Red Poppy and Corn-Rose They are all cold and moist some in the third some in the fourth Degree The inward Vse They are chiefly in use to cause sleep to cool the body and also in diseases of the breast and lungs especially in the Cough Hoarsnesse and Consumptions of the Lungs The Garden Poppy heads with seeds made into a syrupe is frequently used to procure rest and sleep in the sick and weak and to stay hot Rheumes that fall from the head into the stomach and upon the lungs causing a continual Cough the fore-runner of a Consumption the same also helpeth the hoarsnesse of the throat and when one hath lost their voice which the oyl of the seed doth likewise The black seed boyled in wine and drunk is said to stay the flux of the belly and the immoderate Courses of women The empty shels or husks of the Poppy heads are usualy boiled in water and given to procure sleep so do the leavs in the same manner A caudle made of the seeds of white Poppy or made into Almond milk and so given causeth sleep The wild or red Poppy that groweth in the Corn while it is young is a sallet herb in Italy in many places and is used to prevent the Falling-sicknesse The Syrupe made with the Flowers is given to those that have a Pleurisie and the dried flowers also either boyled in water or made into Powder and drunke either in the distilled water of them or in some other drink worketh the like effects and is good also in all other diseases of the head and brest The distilled water thereof is used against surfets to drink it evening and morning It is more cooling then other Poppies and therefore cannot but be as effectual in hot Agues Frensies and other inflammations the Syrupe or water to be used Concerning Opium which is the juice of Poppie thickned see my first part of the nature of Simple Medicines Chap. 49. The manner of Administering it It is used in Decoction Syrupe c. The inward Vse A Decoction of the leaves provoketh rest if the temples and head or feet be bathed therewith and the Oyle doth the like The green heads or leaves bruised and applied with a little Vinegar or made into a Pultis with Barley meal and Hogs grease cooleth all inflammations as also that disease called Saint Anthonies fire The hurtfull Qualitie It must not be used in cold and moist bodies nor to such as have the Palsie Cramp Lethargy c. Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe both simple and compound of many kinds Ex tract Lohoch Oyle CHAP. 35. Of Quinces The Names and Temperament TThe Quince is called in Latine malus Cydonia and Cotonea bccause they were first brought out of Candy saith Plinie in his Natural Historie Book 15. Chap. 11. page 436. Malum Cotoneum Pomum Cydonium and many times Cydonium without any addition are other names given to it They are cold in the first and drie in the second Degree and very binding The sweet are not so cold nor binding as the sowre The inward Vse They are good to stay all manner of fluxes in man or woman and chollerick lasks castings and whatsoever needeth binding and that more when they are green then any way prepared by fire The Syrupe made of the juice is very profitable for the same also so is the Conserve If a little Vinegar be added it stirreth up the weak appetite and the stomach given to casting and if some spices be added it comforteth and strengthneth the decaying and fainting spirits and helpeth the Liver opprest that it cannot perfect the digestion and correcteth choller and flegme To take of the raw juice of Quinces is held a preservative against the force of deadly poyson They are good for those that spit up blood or vomit blood or for the Hicket The Mussilage of the seed taken with a little Sugar is good for the harshnesse and hoarsnesse of the throat and roughnesse of the tongue Quinces used before meals bind the belly but eaten after meals they loose the belly The manner of Administring them They must not be eaten raw but either roasted baked c. The outward Vse The smell of Quince taketh away the strength of the poyson of white Hellebore which Hunters make to kill wild beasts by dipping their Arrow heads therein It hath also been found certain that if Quinces be brought into a house where Grapes are hung up to be kept drie all the year they will assuredly rot with the very smell of them If there be need of any outward binding and cooling of any hot fluxes the Oyle of Quinces or the other Medicines that may be made thereof are very available to anoint the belly or other parts therewith it likewise strengtheneth the stomach and belly and the sinewes that are loosened by sharp humours falling on them and restraineth immoderate sweatings The mussilage of the seeds made in water is very good to cool the heat heal the sore breasts of women The Cotton or Downe of Quinces boyled in wine and applied to plague sores healeth them up and laid as a plaister made up with wax it bringeth haire to them that are bald and keepeth it from falling if it be ready to shed The seeds are very useful in Glisters against fluxes of the belly The hurtfull qualitie Quinces are not convenient for such as are much troubled with costivenesse or much bound in their bodies Of such Medicines as are made thereof Syrupe of divers kinds both simple and compound Marmalade Preserved Quinces Rob Cydoniorum Essence or Spirit Oyle c. CHAP. 36. Of Sage of Jerusalem The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Pulmonaria and Pulmonaria maculosa to distinguish it from the other Lungwort also Symphitum maculosum in English Sage of Jerusalem Couslip of Jerusalem Sage of Bethlehem Lungwort and spotted Comfrey It is judged by some to be cold and drie by others to be hot and dry The inward Vse It is chiefly commended in the Cough shortnesse of breath in ulcers of the Lungs and for such as are full of rotten matter and also for such as spit blood being boyled in water and drunk It is a very good Pot-herb and much in use for that
Salve for wounds in the head It stayeth the bleeding of the nose or any wound bleeding being thereto applied Some hold that the green herb bruised and bound to the wrests of the hands and soles of the feet will help the yellow Jaundise and mitigate the fits of Agues Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 44. Of Smallage The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Apium Apium palustre and Paludapium in English Smallage and water Parsly It is hote and drie neere in the third Degree The inward Vse It openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen maketh thin thick fiegme and cleanseth it and the blood withal It provoketh Vrine and Womens Courses and is good for the yellow Jaundise and for the tertian and quartain Agues if the juice thereof be taken but especially made into a Syrupe The seed is used to break and expel wind to kill worms and to help a stinking breath The root is effectual for all the purposes aforesaid and is stronger in operation then the herb but especially to open stoppings and to rid away an Ague if the juice thereof be taken in wine or the Decoction thereof in wine be taken Pliny saith it hath an especial propertie against the poyson of Spiders The outward Vse The juice put to hony of Roses and some Barly water is very good to gargle the mouth and throat of those that have sores and ulcers in them and will quickly heal them the same lotion also doth cleanse and heal all other foul ulcers and cankers else where if they be washed therewith The leaves bruised and boyled with Hogs grease and made into a Poultis cureth Felons and white flawes in the fingers being thereto applied The hurtful qualitie It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe CHAP. 45. Of Sorrell The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Oxlis of the sharpe tast and Acetosa in English Sorrell and Garden Sorrel It is cooling and drying in the second Degree The inward Vse It is prevalent in all hot diseases to cool any inflammations heat of the blood in Agues Pestilential or Cholerick or other sicknesses and faintings rising from heat and to refresh the overspent spirits with the violence of furious fits of Agues c. to quench thirst and to procure an Appetite in fainting and decayed stomacks for it resisteth the putrifaction of the blood killeth wormes and is as a Cordial to the heart which the seed doth more effectually being more drying and binding and thereby also stayeth the hot fluxes of womens Courses or of humours in the bloody flix or flux of the stomach The roots also in Decoction or in powder is effectual for the said purposes both roots and seeds as well as the herb is held powerful to resist the poyson of the Scorpion so that he that shall eat thereof shall feel no pain being stung The Decoction of the roots is taken to help the Iaundise and to expel gravel and the stone in the Kidneyes The Decoction of the Flowers made with wine and drunk helpeth the black Jaundise as also the inward ulcers of the body or bowels A Syrupe made with the Juice of Sorrel and Fumitorie is a soveraign help to kill the force of those sharp humours that cause the itch The distilled water of the herb is used for the aforesaid purposes The outward Vse The juice with a little vinegar is useful for frettings and gallings of the skin in any part and for Tetters c. It helpeth also to dissolve or disperse kernels in the throat and the juice gargled in the mouth helpeth the sores therein and dropped into the ears helpeth deafnesse The leaves wrapped up in a Colewort leafe or a wet paper and roasted under the Embers and applied to an hard impostume botch bile or plague sore both ripeneth and breaketh it The hurtfull qualitie It is hurtful to melancholly persons Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve Syrup CHAP. 46. Of Spinage The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Spinachia and Spinacheum olus in English Spinage and Spinach It is cold and moist in the first or second Degree The inward Vse Being young and tender it is used in Sallads and looseth the belly moderately cooleth the Lungs represseth Choler lenifieth the roughnesse of the throat and wind-pipe and is good for those that have hot and chollerick stomachs In France this herb shred and made up in bals fried with Oyle and Vinegar in the time of Lent filleth up the room of an ordinary dish The outward Vse It is outwardly used to cool inflammations to cool the heat of the stomach and Liver and laid upon hot swellings it taketh away the heat thereof and dissolveth the swelling The hurtful qualitie It weakneth the stomach encreaseth wind and waterish humours and yieldeth little or no nourishment at all hurteth the flegmatick and being often used breeds melancholly blood Of such things as are made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 47. Of Succory The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Cichorium and Cichorea in English Succory It is cold and drie in the second Degree others will have it to be hot because it is bitter The inward Vse A handful of the leaves or roots boyled in wine or water and a draught thereof drunk fasting driveth forth chollerick and flegmatick humours openeth the stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleen helpeth the yellow Jaundise the heat of the reins and of the urine the Dropsie also and those that have the green sicknesse A Decoction thereof made with wine and drunk is very effectual against long lingering Agues and a dram of the seed in powder drunk in wine before the fit of an Ague doth help to drive it away The distilled water of the herb and flowers performeth the same afore said and is special good for hot stomachs and in Agues either pestilential or of long continuance and for swoundings and passions of the heart for the heat and head-ache in Children and to temper the distemperature of the blood and liver The manner of Administering it It is used chiefly in Decoction juice and Syrupe The outward Vse The distilled water or the juice or the herb bruised and applied allayeth tumours inflammations Saint Anthonies fire pushes wheales and pimples especially used with a little Vinegar as also to wash pestiferous sores the said water is effectual for sore eyes that are inflamed or are red as also for Nurses sore breasts that are pained by abundance of milk Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve The root candied Syrupe simple and compound CHAP. 48. Of Tamarisk The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Myrica Tamarix and Tamariscus in English Tamarisk It is of a cleansing and cutting quality without manifest drying that it hath a little therein but the fruit and bark are much more drying The
TRACTATUS De facultatibus Simplicium The Second Part Of the TREATISE Of the Nature and Qualitie of such Physical Simples as are most frequently used in MEDICINES Methodically handled for the benefit of those that understand not the Latine Tongue To which is added many Compound Medicines for many diseases incident to Mankind as also an Alphabetical Table at the latter end very necessary for the READER By ROBERT PEMELL Practitioner of Physick at Cranebrooke in Kent Qui potest mederi Simplicibus frustra quaerit Composita LONDON Printed by J. Legatt for Philemon Stephens at the guilded Lion in Pauls Church-yard 1653. TO THE READER Kind Reader I Had not thought to have written any thing more of this Subject but when I had finished my first Part after examination I found that I had omitted many useful and necessary Simples I have therefore now wrote of the Nature of such onely as I omitted before for the more readie finding out of what is contained in this Second Part. Here followeth a Table of the Simples and the Chapter wherein they are handled Now my heartie desire is that this and the former Treatise may be helpful to any that shall make use of them Desiring thy prayers for me I take my leave of thee Febr. 24. 1652. Robert Pemell Medicus A Table of the Physical Simples handled in this Second Part. ADders-Tongue Chapter 1 Allisanders chap. 2 Avens chap. 3 BRook-Lime chap. 4 Bugle chap. 5 CArawayes chap. 6 Celandine the greater and lesser chap. 7 Chervil chap. 8 Clarie chap. 9 Clove Gilliflowers chap. 10 Colts-foot chap. 11 Coriander-seed chap. 12 Cowslips chap. 13 Cummin-seed chap. 14 DEvils-bit chap. 15 Dropwort chap. 16 Feather-few chap. 17 Golden rod chap. 18 Harts-Tongue chap. 19 White House-leek chap. 20 Hysop chap. 21 Knotsgrass chap. 22 White Lilly chap. 23 Lilly Coural chap. 24 Liver wort chap. 25 Mouse eare chap. 26 Nep chap. 27 Onions chap. 28 Osmund Royal chap. 29 PArsly Chapter 30 Pellitorie of the wall chapter 31 Penny royal chap. 32 Periwinkle chap. 33 Poppies garden and wild chapter 34 Quincies chap. 35 SAge of Ierusalem chapter 36 Sanicle or Sanickle chap. 37 Savine chap. 38 Savorie chap. 39 Saxifrage English or common chap. 40 Scabions chap. 41 Scurvie grasse chap. 42 Shepherds purse chap. 43 Smallage chap. 44 Sorrel chap. 45 Spinage chap. 46 Succorie chap. 47 TAmarisk chap. 48 Tansie chap. 49 Thime chap. 50 VEx vain chap. 51 Violets chap. 52 WAtercresses chap. 53 Wood-sage chap. 54 Wood sorrel chap. 55 The second Part Of the Nature of Physical Simples CHAP. I. Of Adders tongue The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Lingua Serpentis or Serpentina in English Adders tongue or Serpents tongue It is temperate between heat and cold and drie in the second Degree The inward Vse The juice of the Leaves given to drink with the distilled Water of Horse-tail is a singular remedie for all manner of wounds in the breast or bowels or any other part of the body It is with no less good success given to those that are much given to casting or vomiting and also to those that void blood at the mouth or nose or otherwise downwards the said juice or dried leaves made into powder and given in the distilled Water of Oaken buds is very good for such women as have their usual Courses or the Whites come down too abundantly upon them the said powder of the Herb taken for some time together doth cure Ruptures A Decoction of the leaves made with water and taken is good against hot Fevers and inward inflammations and heats The outward Vse The green Herb infused or boyled in red or white wine and waterie eyes washed therewith or dropped therein taketh away the watering and cooleth any inflammation that cometh thereby The leaves mixed with Hogs-grease and gently boyled and strained is good against burnings hot tumours and Apostumes spreading sores and wild-fire With the green leaves infused in Oyle Olive and set in the Sun for certain dayes or boyled sufficiently in the same Oyle is made an excellent green Oyle or Balsame singular good for all green and fresh wounds as also for old and inveterate Ulcers quickly to cure them especially if a little clear Turpentine be dissolved therein The same also stayeth and represseth all Inflammations that rise upon pains by any hurt or wounds Of such things as are made thereof Oyle of Adders tongue The distilled Water CHAP. 2. Of Allisanders The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Hypposelinum and Petroselinum Alexandrinum in English Alexanders Alexandre and Allisanders The root and seeds are hot and dry in the third Degree they clense and make thin The inward Vse Allisanders are much used to make broth with the upper part of the root and the leaves being boyled together some eat them raw with Vinegar or stew them and so eat them and this chiefly in the time of Lent to help to digest the Crudities and viscous humours that are gathered in the Stomach by the much use of Fish at that time it doth also warm any other cold Stomach and by the bitterness helpeth to open stoppings of the Liver and Spleen to move Womens courses to expel the after Birth to break wind to provoke urine and help the strangury and these things the Seed will do likewise if taken in Wine or boyled in Wine and so taken and is effectual against the bitings of Serpents The roots preserved in a pickle of Vineger and Salt are a very wholsome sauce with meats stirring up the Appetite cleansing and comforting the Stomach and remove stoppings They are convenient for every age and constitution especially for the Phlegmatick and such as are subject to stoppings The Dose The Seed is given in powder from a scruple to two scruples In Decoction from a dram to two drams CHAP. 3. Of Avens The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Caryophillata and that from the Sent of the Root so near resembling Cloves in English Avens and herb Bennet The roots and leaves are manifestly drie and something hot with a clensing qualitie The inward Vse A Decoction of the root or leaves being taken helpeth the diseases of the breast stitches of the side and to expel crude or raw humours from the Stomach and Belly It also dissolveth congealed blood happening by fals or bruises and the spitting of blood and helpeth all inward wounds comforteth the heart and strengthneth the stomach and a cold brain and therefore is good in the Spring time to open stoppings of the Liver and Spleen helpeth the wind Collick Fluxes of the Belly and Ruptures and is good against infectious vapours of the Plague and poyson The outward Vse A Decoction of the root made in Wine helpeth wounds and Ulcers though Fistulous if they be washed therewith If foule spots or marks in the face or other parts of the body be washed therewith it taketh them away and leaveth the skin well coloured The powder of the dried
purpose The manner of Administering it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It is used to heal old or new wounds being thereto applied or boyled in Hogs-grease strained and being cold laid thereto Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 37. Of Sanicle or Sanickle The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sanicula from its excellencie in healing wounds also Diapensia in English Sanicle and Sanickle It is hot and drie in the second Degree and bitter and astringent or binding The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It helpeth Wounds Ulcers Impostumes or any inward bleedings and doth wonderfully help those that have any tumour in their bodies in any part if the Decoction or juice thereof be taken or the powder in drink for there is not found any herb that can give such present help either to man or beast when the disease falleth upon the lungs or throat It stayeth all womens Courses and all other fluxes of blood either by the mouth urine or stool and lasks of the belly the ulceration of the kidneyes also and the pains in the bowels and the running of the reins being boyled in water and drunk the same helpeth ruptures or burstings and is as effectual in binding restraining consolidating heating drying and healing as Comfrey Bugle Self heal or any other woundherb whatsoever A spoonful or two of the juice taken three or foure mornings together with a little Sugar helpeth such as have any veine broken in the lungs or spetting of blood The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It cureth all green Wounds and Ulcers speedily if they be washed with the Decoction thereof or the juice It healeth also all malign putrid or stinking ulcers of the mouth throat and privities by gargling or washing with the Decoction of the leaves and roots made in water and a little Honey put thereto The herb boyled in water and applied in manner of a Pultis doth dissolve and wast away cold swellings The hurtfull qualitie Such as are much bound in their bodies are not to use it too frequently Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water of the green herb The juice CHAP. 38. Of Savine The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sabina and Savina in English Savine or garden Savine It is hot and drie in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good a year but you may have it green all the year It is hot and drie in the third Degree The inward Vse Matthiolus saith that a dram of Savine in powder mixt with 3 ounces of Niter and 2 of Hony doth wonderfully help such as are short winded The Decoction thereof drunk doth provoke the courses and draweth forth the Birth and after Birth expelleth blood by urine and is profitable for the Kings Evil. It killeth worms in children and the Bots in Horses or Cattel to give it in their drink or with their Oats The distilled water thereof is effectual against worms and helpeth those that have a giddinesse in their brain Savine doth powerfully resist putrifactions The manner of Administring It is given in Decoction or in Powder The outward Vse The perfume of the Decoction taken underneath provoketh the Courses brings away the Birth and after Birth Being mixed with Hony and used it cures Vlcers stayeth spreading and creeping Vlcers taketh away their blacknesse as also all spots and freckles from the face or body It breaketh or dissolveth Carbuncles and Plague sores It killed worms being boyled and applied to the belly or the Oyle made thereof and used doth the like The powder of the leaves mixed with cream or the green leaves boyled in cream and anointed on running sores or dry sores cleanseth them throughly and healeth them as also Saint Anthonies fire The fresh leaves bruised and laid upon running and fretting Cankers and the like killeth and destroyeth them The powder of the leaves used with some other things or strewed upon doth help those blisters that rise on the yard by inordinate luxurie after they have been bathed with the Decoction of the leaves The distilled water doth cleanse the skin from spots of marks therein and other deformities The smoake thereof cureth Hens that have gotten the pipp The hurtful qualitie It must not be given to women with childe but with good advise least it destroy the Birth Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water The Oyle of Savine CHAP. 39. Of Savorie The Kinds Names and Temperament THere are two sorts of Savory chiefly in use the Winter and the Summer Savory The Winter Savory is called Satureia hortensis or vulgaris the Summer Savory is called Satureia hortensis activa Both sorts are hot and dry in the third Degree especially the Summer kind which is both sharp and quicke in taste The inward Vse Savory expelleth wind in the stomach and bowels and is a present help for the rising of the mother procured by wind provoketh Vrine and womens Courses and is much commended for women with childe to take often of it It procures a good appetite to meat and takes away all manner of loathing to the same It cutteth tough flegme in the chest and lungs and helpeth to bring it away more easily It quickneth the sight and some write that it provoketh venery The outward Vse It is much commended for women with childe to smel often to it It helpeth to quicken the dull spirits of the Lethargy the juice being snuffed up into the nostrils the juice also is of good use to be dropped into the eyes to clear the dull sight if it proceed of raw thinn cold humours distilling from the brain The same also heated with a little Oyle of Roses and dropped into the ears taketh away the noise and singing in them and deafnesse also Being applied with wheat flower in manner of a Poultis giveth ease to the Sciatica or members that have the Palsie by heating and warming them and taketh away the pain It taketh away the stinging of Bees Wasps c. and being laid in Chambers it killeth Fleas Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Chymical Oyle CHAP. 40. Of English or common Saxifrage The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Saxifraga and Saxifraga Anglicana in English Stone-break and English Saxifrage It is hot and dry in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse A Decoction made with the seeds and roots being taken breaketh the stone in the bladder and kidneyes helpeth the strangury and causeth one to pisse freely The roots boyled in Wine and taken bringeth down womens Courses expelleth the after Birth and dead Child The root dried and made into powder and taken with Sugar comforteth and warmeth the stomach cureth the gnawings and griping pains of the belly easeth the Collick also and expelleth wind The Cheshire-women put it in their running or rennet for cheese The distilled water
distilled Water is useful for the aforesaid diseases The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It healeth all wounds and stayeth bleedings and used with some honey healeth all old Vlcers and Fistulaes in the legs or other parts of the body and also Vlcers of the mouth or used with Hogs grease it helpeth the swellings and paines of the secret parts of Man or Woman as also the Piles or Hemorrhoids Applied with some Oyle of Roses and Vinegar unto the forehead and Temples it helpeth to ease the old pains of the head and is good for those that are fallen into a Frensy The leaves bruised or the juice of them mixed with some Vinegar doth cleanse the skin and taketh away all Morphew Freckles pustulaes or the like inflammations and deformities of the skin in any part of the body The leaves bruised with Oyle of Roses and Vinegar or the Decoction of it made in Oyle of Roses keepeth the haires from falling being bathed or anointed therewith The Decoction of the leaves and roots helpeth the tooth-ache The leaves bruised and boyled in Hogs grease helpeth the Quinsie swelling of the throat and the Gout being applied warm The distilled water of the herb when it is in his full strength dropped into the eyes cleanseth them from films clouds or mist that darkens the sight and comforteth the Optick nerves and it good also to heal old sores or green wounds Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Oyntment CHAP. 53. Of Violets The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Viola and Viola martia in English Violet The garden and field Violets are cold and moist The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward Vse Violets are used to cool any heat or distemperature of the body inflammations in the eyes in the mother or in the Fundament when they are fallen down and are full of pain Impostumes also and hot swellings to drink the Decoction of the leaves or flowers made with wine or water it likewise easeth pains in the head caused through want of rest A dram of the dried leaves of the flowers of Violets doth purge the body of Chollerick humours and asswageth the heat being taken in a draught of wine or other drink The powder of the purple leaves of the flowers onely pickt and dried and drunk in powder with water is said to help the Quinsie and the Falling-sicknesse in children especially in the beginning of the disease The seed being taken resisteth the force of the Scorpion The herb or flowers while they are fresh or the flowers when they are dry are effectual in the Pleurisie and all other diseases of the Lungs to lenifie the sharpnesse of hot Rheumes and the hoarsnesse of the throat the heat also of the Urine and the sharpnesse thereof and all pains of the back or reins or bladder It is good also for the Liver and the Jaundise and in all hot Agues helping to cool the heat and quench thirst but the Syrupe of Violets is of most use and of better effect being taken in some convenient liquor and if a little of the juice or Syrupe of Lemons be put to it or a few drops of the oyle of Vitriol it is made thereby the more powerful to cool the heat and to quench the thirst and besides the effect giveth to the drink a Claretwine colour and a fine tart rellish pleasing to the tast Violets taken or made up with Honey doth more cleanse then coole and with Sugar contrariwise The dried flowers of Violets are accounted among the Cordial flowers and are used in Cordials drinks Powders and other medicines especially where cooling Cordials as Roses and Sanders are used The manner of Administring it It is used in Decoction Syrupe Powder c. The outward Vse Being outwardly applied they mitigate all kind of hot inflammations in the eyes in the mother or in the Fundament when they are fallen down and full of pain Impostumes also and hot swellings mixed with Oyle of Roses and applied it easeth pains in the head which are caused through want of sleep or in any other place arising of heat The green leaves are alwayes used with other herbs to make Poultisses for inflammations or swellings and to ease pains wheresoever arising of heat and for the Piles also being fried with yolks of Egs and applied thereto The oyle of Violets is good for the foresaid purposes Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrupe both simple and compound Julep of Violets Trochisces Conserve Tincture Vinegar of Violets Extract Oyle CHAP. 53. Of Water Cresses The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Nasturtium aquaticum in English Water Cresses They are hot and drie in the second Degree The inward Vse Water Cresses are good against the Scurvie and to cleanse the blood and humours and for all the other uses whereunto Brooklime is before said to be available as to break the stone provoke urine and Womens Courses and is very useful in the Green sicknesse It is very usual in the Spring to make Pottage thereof which is very wholsome and cleanseth the blood and grosse humours It is profitable in stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and in the Dropsie The outward Vse The Decoction thereof is said to be good to wash foul and filthy ulcers thereby to cleanse them and make them the fitter to heale The leaves or the juice is good to be applied to the face or other parts troubled with freckles pimples spots or the like at night and taken away or washed away in the morning The juice mixed with Vinegar and the fore part of the head bathed therewith is very good for those that are dull and drowsie or have the Lethargy Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water The Spirit CHAP. 54. Of Wood Sage The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Salvia agrestis in English Wood Sage Wilde Sage and Garlick Sage It is hot and dry in the second Degree The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse The Decoction thereof is good to be given to those whose urine is stayed for it provoketh it and Womens Courses also It is thought to be good against the French poxe because the Decoction thereof drunk doth provoke sweat digesteth humours and dissolveth swellings and nodes in the flesh The Decoction of the hearb rather green then day made with wine and taken is accounted a safe and sure remedy for those who by fals bruises or beatings doubt some vein to be inwardly broken to disperse and avoid the congealed blood and to close up the Vein and is also good for such as are inwardly bursten the same also is good for the Palsie The outward Vse Being bruised and applied in manner of a Poultis it helpeth burstings The juice of the herb or the powder thereof dried is good for moist ulcers and sores in the legs or other parts to dry them and thereby