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
marks of bruises stripes or wounds the Morphew also Sun-burning or any the like Pilewort doth wonderfully help the Piles or Hemorrhoides as also kernels by the ears and throat called the Kings-evil or any other hard wens or tumours either the Decoction of the leaves and roots or an ointment made of them with Hogs grease or fresh Butter and used A Poultis against Cancrous sores of Womens breasts Take of the juice of Celandine and Goos-dung of each a like quantitie mix them together and apply it An Injection good in the cure of hollow wounds Take of Celandine Sage Saint Johns Wort of each half a hand ful Elecampane root four ounces Vineger a pint Water six pints boyl them till near half be consumed add thereto of Honie a pound Aloes in fine powder foure ounces let them boyle gently a while then keep it for your use Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Juice Salt CHAP. 8. Of Chervill The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Cerefolium Cerifolium and Chaerifolium in English Chervil and Chervel It is of a temperate heat and moderate drinesse The inward Vse It doth moderately warm the stomach and it is a certain remedy saith Tragus to dissolve congealed or clotted blood in the body after fals or bruises if the juice or the distilled water thereof be drunk it is taken also by divers to be good to provoke urine and to expel the stone in the kidneyes and Womens Courses taken either in meat or drink and moreover to help the Pleurisie and prickings of the. The round tufts or heads which contain the seeds do far excel the leaves and may be eaten as a sallad by themselves with Oyle Olive Vineger and Pepper for they are very good for a cold and weak stomach The roots boyled and eaten as before with Oyle Vinegar and pepper are good for a weak stomach for weak and aged persons and for such as are dull and without courage for they delight the stomach comfort the heart increase strength and stir up Venus or Lust A Decoction of Chervil taken provoketh sleep sweetly The outward Vse Being bruised and applied it dissolveth any tumours or swellings in any part of the body as also to take away the spots and marks in the flesh and skin of congealed blood by bruises or blowes in a short space and also easeth the Collick and pain of the belly Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Salt of Chervil CHAP. 9. Of Clarie The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Horminum and Orminum in English Clary or Cleere eye It is hot and drie in the third Degree The inward Vse The Seeds or the Leaves boyled in Wine and taken provoketh to Venery It is much in use with Men or Women that have weak backs to help to strengthen the Reins either used by it self or with other Herbs that conduce to the same effect and in Tansies often or the fresh Leaves fried in Butter being first dipped in a batter of Flower Eggs and a little Milke served as a dish to the Table is not unpleasant to any but exceeding profitable for weak backs It provoketh Womens Courses and bringeth away the after Birth It is used in Italy to help Barrennesse when it proceeds from a cold and moist Disposition it stayeth the Whites and helpeth also a cold stomach oppressed with cold Flegme purgeth the Head of Rheume and much corruption The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse The Seeds made in fine Powder put into the eye Eye alone or mixed with Honey and so used cleareth the Sight and taketh away white or red spots therein The Muscilage of the Seed made with VVater and applied to tumours or swellings disperseth and taketh them away and also draweth forth splinters thorns or other things gotten into the flesh the Leaves used with Vinegar either by it self or with a little Hony doth help hot inflammations if timely applied The powder of the dried Leaves put into the Nose provoketh sneesing and thereby purgeth the Head and Brain of much Rheume and Corruption The hurtful qualitie The frequent use of Clary offendeth the head and is hurtful for the brain and memorie Clownes Wound-wort or All-heale See my Help for the Poor page 10.11 12 13 14. CHAP. 10. Of Clove gillowflowers The Names and Temperament THey are called in Latin Caryophilli in English Clovegillow-flowers They are temperate in heat and drinesse The Duration They will keep good a year being well dried The inward Vse They are very Cordial and much in use in Feavers both pestilential and others in faintnesse of the heart and spirits The syrupe is of the same Nature The Flowers being pickled with Vinegar and Sugar are a pleasant and dainty sauce stir up the Appetite and are also of a Cordial facultie The outward Vse They are used in wounds of the Head they draw out pieces of bones the Skul being broken ease the Head-ache and pain of the Teeth being thereto applied The Medicines made thereof Syrupe Conserve Vinegar CHAP. 11. Of Colts-foot The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Tussilago and Tarfara in English Colts-foot Hors-foot and Fole-foot Being fresh it is cooling and drying but when it is drie it is somewhat hot and drie The Duration The Leaves and Flowers being dry will keep good a year The inward Vse The drie Leaves are best for such as have thinne Rheumes and Distillations upon the Lungs causing the Cough thereby to thicken and drie it The fresh Leaves or Juice or Syrupe made thereof is fittest for an hot dry Cough and for wheesing and shortnesse of breath the dried Leaves taken as Tobacco is in the like manner good for the thinne Rheumes Distillations and Coughs as also the Root taken in like sort The distilled Water hereof simply or with Elder Flowers and Nightshade is a singular remedie against all hot Agues to drink two ounces at a time The outward Vse The distilled Water simply or with Elder Flowers and Nightshade helpeth the pains of the head proceeding from heat if Clothes be wet therein and applied thereto The same also applied to any hot swelling or inflammation doth much good yea it helpeth Saint Anthonies fire and burning also and is singular good to take away wheales and small pushes that rise through heat as also against the burning heat of the Piles or of the privie parts to apply wet clothes therein to the places The fume of the dried Leaves or Roots taken through a Tunnel burned upon coals effectually helpeth those that are troubled with shortnesse of breath and fetch their wind thick and often and breaketh the Apostumes of the breast Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrupe both Simple and Compound Conserve made of the Flowers CHAP. 12. Of Coriander-seed The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Semen Coriandri in English Coriander and Coliander-seed It is hot and dry in the
whether you use the Flowers Leaves or Seed but the Roots are most effectual either taken in Powder or in a Decoction with white Wine whereunto a little Honey is added The same helpeth to expel the after-Birth is good in the Jaundise and Falling-sicknesse The Roots made into Powder and mixed with Honey into the form of an Electuarie doth much help them whose stomacks are swollen breaking and dissolving the wind which was the cause thereof as also is very effectual for all the diseases of the Lungs as shortnesse of Breath wheesings hoarsenesse of the throat and the Cough and to bring away cold Flegme there-from or any other parts there-abouts The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder or Decoction chiefly The outward Vse Being bruised and applied it helpeth the swelling of the Piles or Hemorrhoides The Dose It is given in powder from half a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 17. Of Featherfew The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Parthemium matricatia and Febrifuga because it expels Feavers or Agues in English Featherfew and Feaverfew It is hot and dry in the third Degree or hot in the third Degree and dry in the second it cleanseth purgeth or scourceth openeth and fully performeth all that bitter things can do The inward Vse It is chiefly used for the diseases of the mother whether it be the rising of the Mother or the hardnesse or inflammations of the same if a Decoction of the flowers or herbs be made in wine with a little Nutmeg or Mace put therein and drunk often in a day the same bringeth down the Courses also speedily and warmeth those parts oppressed by stoppings or cold as also helpeth to expel the dead Birth and the after Birth A Decoction thereof taken with Sugar or Hony helpeth the cough and stuffing of the chest by cold as also to cleanse the reins in them The powder of the herb saith Dioscorides taken in wine with some Oxymel or Water and Honie purgeth like to Epithymum both Choller and Flegme and is available for those that are short winded and are troubled with melancholly and heavinesse or sadnesse of the spirits It is very effectual for the swimming of the head and winde in the stomach and is frequently given before the fits of Agues It is good in the Dropsey and helpeth such as are impotent in venereous acts It is a good remedie against Opium taken too liberally The manner of Administring It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse Being applied outwardly to the Mother it helpeth the rising thereof the hardnesse or inflammation of the same and bringeth down Womens Courses the Birth and after Birth if a Woman sit over the hot Fumes of the Decoction of the herb made in water or wine It is effectual for all cold pains of the head the herb being bruised and applyed to che crown of the head It is a frequent custome to apply the herb bruised with Glasse and Bay-salt to the wrists of the hands before the fits of Agues The same bruised and heated on a tile with a little wine to moysten it or fried with a little Oyle and wine in a frying-pan and applied warm to the stomach or belly expelleth wind and griping pains The distilled water is used to take away spots freckles and other deformities of the skin The hurtfull qualitie It must not be used in very hot and drie bodies Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Filipendula See Dropwort CHAP. 18. Of Golden Rod. The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Virga aurea in English Golden Rod. It is hot and dry almost in the second Degree The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It is much in use against the stone in the Kidneyes and to provoke Urine as also to bring away gravel The Decoction of the herb green or drie or the distilled water thereof is very effectual for inward bruises and stayeth bleedings in any part of the body and of wounds also and Fluxes in women and fluxes of the belly as also the bloody flix in man or woman availeth in Ruptures and is a soveraign wound herb The manner of Administering it It is given chiefly in Decoction The outward Vse The green herb bruised and applied helpeth bruises bleeding at the nose or wounds bleeding Fluxes of the belly and Ruptures It healeth green wounds quickly or old sores and ulcers that are hard to be cured which often come by flux of moist humours thereunto and hinder them from healing it is likewise useful in all lotions for sores or ulcers in the mouth or throat or in the privie parts of Man or Woman the Decoction thereof likewise helpeth to fasten the teeth that are loose Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 19. Of Harts-tongue The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Lingua Cervina and Phyllitis in English Harts-tongue It is cold and drying The inward Vse It is commended against the hardnesse and stopping of the Liver and Spleen and against the heat of the Liver and Stomach it is very good also against lasks and the bloody flux and spitting of blood Dioscorides saith it is good against the biting of Serpents The leaves are green almost all the yeare The distilled water is commended against the passions of the heart and to stay the Hicket The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse The distilled water thereof is said to help the falling of the Pallate and to stay the bleeding of the gums if the mouth be gargled therewith The herb or the juice applied doth mundifie or cleanse wounds and ulcers Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water of the leaves CHAP. 20. Of White House-leek The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sempervivum and sedum majus in English Houseleek and sengreen It is cold in the third Degree moderately drying and binding The inward Vse The juice thereof taken with Sugar or a Posset made with the juice is singular good in all hot Agues and inflammations for it cooles and temperateth the blood and spirits quenches thirst helpeth fluxes of the belly stayeth the Courses in women killeth worms and is good against the biting of the Phalangium Spider The distilled water is profitable for the purposes aforesaid The outward Vse The juice dropped into the eyes is good to stay all hot defluxions of sharp and salt rheume into them It cooleth inflammations Saint Anthonies fire and all other hot corruption in the flesh scaldings also and burnings the shingles fretting Ulcers Cankers Tetters Ringworms and the like easeth the hot gout The juice taketh away warts and Corns being often bathed rherewith and the skin of the leavs being laid on afterwards it easeth the headache and distempered heat of the brain in Frensies or for want of rest being applied to the temples or forehead the leaves
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
milk doth abate the hardnesse quickly if it be fried with butter and applied and doth also take away black and blew spats or marks by bruises fals c The juice thereof dropped into the ears with a little wine easeth the pains thereof The hurtfull qualitie Parsly eaten raw and too frequently hurts the head breedeth cholerick blood and is hardly digested Women with child must not be too bold with it least it prove dangerous to them Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 31. Of Pellitorie of the wall The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Helxine and Perdicium because Partridges sometimes feed thereon also Parietaria and herba Muralis or Muralium because it groweth near to walls It is counted by most to be cold and moist but surely it is hot otherwise it cannot be so effectual against wind and the stone The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse The dried herb in powder made up with Hony into an Electuarie or the juice of the herb or the Decoction thereof taken with Sugar or Honie is a singular remedy for any old continual or drie cough shortnesse of breath and wheesing in the throat the juice thereof taken to the quantitie of three ounces at a time doth wonderfully ease those that are troubled with the suppression of their Vrine and to expel both the gravel and stone The Decoction also of the herb being drunk easeth the pains of the mother and provoketh the Courses the same also easeth those griefs that arise from the stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Reins The distilled water drunken with Sugar worketh the same effects The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It is much used in Glysters to ease pains in the back sides or bowels proceeding from wind or the like stoppings of Urine or the gravel and stone it worketh the like effect also if the bruised herb sprinkled with some Muskadine be warmed upon a tile or in a dish upon a few quick coals in a chaffing-dish and applied to the belly The decoction thereof may serve as a bath for women to sit in to bring down their Courses to ease gripings c. The same Decoction also with a little Hony added thereto will serve to good purpose to gargle the throat when it is swollen or pained The juice held a while in the mouth easeth the tooth-ache and dropped into the ears easeth the noise and hummings in them and taketh away the pricking and shooting pains in them The juice or herb bruised and applied with a little salt is very effectual to cleanse Fistulaes and to heal them It is likewise very effectual for any green wound that if it be bruised and bound thereto for three dayes you need no other medicine or salve to heal it A Pultis made hereof with Mallowes and boyled in Wine with Wheat bran and Bean flower and some Oyle put thereto and applied warm to any bruised Sinew Tendon or Muscle doth in a very short time restore them to their strength and taketh away the pains of bruises and dissolveth the congealed blood of any beatings or fals from high places The juice or the distilled water cleanseth the skinne from Spots Freckles Purples Wheals Sunburn Morphew c. and leaveth the skin smooth and delicate The said Water or Juice doth asswage hot Impostumes burnings or scaldings as also all other hot tumours or inflammations be it Saint Anthonies fire or any other eruptions of heat being bathed often with wet clothes dipped therein or the said juice made into an Ointment with Cerusse and Oyle of Roses and annointed therewith which doth also cleanse foule rotten Ulcers and stayeth creeping Ulcers and runing Scabs in Childrens heads and helpeth also to stay the falling off the hair of the head c. The leaves mixed with Oyle of sweet Almonds in manner of a Pultis and laid to the pained parts is a good help for them that are troubled with the Stone or are troubled with Wind and gripings Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 32. Of Penny-royal The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Pulegium because it killeth fleas being burned In English Penny-royal and Pudding-grasse It is hot and dry in the third Degree and of subtile parts The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It maketh thick flegm thinn warmeth a cold stomach and digesteth raw matter being boyled and drunk it provoketh womens Courses expels the dead child and after Birth and allayeth the gnawing of the stomach Being mixed with Honey and salt and drunk it is a good Medicine for the Lungs and helpeth cramps The Decoction thereof is good in the Falling-sicknesse Dropsie Jaundise stopping of the Vrine and in the Leprosie Drunk with wine it helpeth such as are stung with venemous beasts The manner of administering it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse Applied to the nostrils with Vinegar it reviveth those that are fainting or sounding being dried and burnt it strengthneth the gums It is helpful to those that are troubled with the gout applied to the place till it wax red applied in a cerot or plaister it taketh away spots or marks in the face it much profiteth those that are splenetick or liver grown being applied with salt The Decoction helpeth those that have the itch being bathed therewith being put into baths for women to sit therein it helpeth the swelling and hardnesse of the mother and when it is out of its place Being bruised and put into Vinegar it cleanseth foul Vlcers and causeth the matter to digest it helpeth black and blew eyes and all discolourings of the face by the fire Being boyled in wine with Hony and Salt it helpeth the tooth-ache It helpeth the cold griefs of the joynts taking away the pains and warming the cold parts being fast bound to the place after a bathing or having been in a hot house A lotion to refresh wearied limbs Take of Penny-royal and Origanum of each a handful and a half of Sage a handful Boyl them in water and wash therewith or bath therein at night The hurtful qualitie Very hot and drie bodies must not be too busie with it Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve Oyle Chymical CHAP. 33. Of Periwinkle The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Vinca Pervinca and Pervinca also Clematis Pervinca in English Periwinkle and Pervinkle It is hot about the second Degree something drie and astringent The inward Vse The leaves boyled in wine and drunk stoppeth the lask and bloody flix An handful of the leaves stamped and the juice thereof given to drink in red wine stoppeth the lask and bloody flix spitting of blood the bleeding of the Hemorrhoides and the overflowing of womens Courses which seldome faileth in any It is also excellent in inward wounds The manner of Administring it It is given in juice or in
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
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
is much in use to give children against the stopping of their Urine and to ease griping pains in their belly The manner of Administring it It is used chiefly in Decoction The outward Vse It is used outwardly in Bathes and Fomentations to provoke Vrine and to ease pains of the belly c. proceeding from wind The Dose It is given from half a dram to a dram both the root herb and seeds Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 41. Of Scabious The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Scabiosa in English Scabious It is hot and dry in the second Degree opening cleansing digesting and making thinne The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It is effectual for all sorts of Coughs shortnesse of breath and all other the diseases of the brest and lungs ripening and digesting cold flegme and other tough humours voyding them forth by coughing and spitting It ripeneth also all sort of inward Vlcers and Apostumes yea the Pleurisie also if the Decoction of the dry or green herb being made with wine be drunk some time together thereby voiding it forth by Vrine as well as other wayes Four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting with a dram of Mithridate or Venice Treacle doth free the heart from any infection of the Plague or Pestilence so as upon the taking thereof they sweat two houres in their beds at the first yet after the first time taking let them that are infected take the same proportion again and again if need be for fear of further danger The same is good against the stinging of any venemous beast The Decoction drunke helpeth the pains and stitches of the sides The Decoction of the roots taken for fourtie dayes together or the powder of them to the quantity of a dramme at a time taken in Whey doth as Matthiolus saith wonderfully help those that are troubled with dangerous running or spreading Scabs Tetters or Ringworms yea although they proceed from the French pox The juice or the Decoction drunk doth very much help those that are broken out into scabs and itches The same also wonderfully helpeth all inward wounds be they made by thrust or stroke by the drying cleansing and healing qualitie therein A Syrupe made of the juice and Sugar is very effectual to all the purposes aforesaid and so is the distilled water of the herb and flowers made in due time The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction chiefly A Decoction good against the Cough and shorenesse of breath c. Take of dried Scabious a handful Licoris bruised Anniseed and Fennelseed bruised of each one Ounce white Orris root cut in thin slices half an Ounce Figs cut into pieces a dozen Let all be steeped for a night in a quart of fair water or rather in so much wine boyling them the next day until a third part be consumed at the least whereof take a draught every morning and evening warm with Hony or Sugar The outward Vse The green herb bruised and applied to any Carbuncle or Plague sore is found by good experience to dissolve or break it within the space of three houres the same applied helpeth the stinging of any venemous beast The juice made up into an ointment with Hogs-grease helpeth the itch and scab being thereto applied The Decoction of the herb and roots applied doth help all sorts of hard or cold tumours or swellings in any part of the body and is also as effectual for any shrunk sinew or veine in any place The juice made up with the powder of Borax and Camphor doth cleanse the skin of the face or any other part of the body as Freckles Pimples Morphew and Leprie The same Decoction helpeth the rednesse and spots in the white of the eyes used either by it self or with the juice of Fennel The head washed with the same Decoction cleanseth it from dandraffe scurff scabs sores itches and the like being used warm Tents also dipped in the juice or water thereof doth heale all green wounds old sores and ulcers The herb bruised and applied doth loosen splinter broken bone arrow head or other such like thing lying in the flesh and causeth it to be easily drawn forth Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Syrup both simple and compound Conserve of the flowers Salt CHAP. 42. Of Scurvy-grasse The Names and Temperament THe common Scurvy-grasse is called Cochlearia and Cochlearia vulgaris the other sort with round leaves is called in Latine Cochlearia rotundifolia and Cochlearia Batava in English Scurvigrasse or Spoonwort that with round leaves is called Dutch-Scutvy-grasse It s hot and dry in the second or third Degree especially the garden Scurvy-grasse The inward Vse The English Scurvy-grasse is more used for the salt tast it beareth which doth somewhat open and cleanse but the Dutch or garden Scurvy-grasse is of better effect and chiefly used if it may be had by those that have the Scurvy especially also to purge and cleanse the Blood the Liver and Spleen for all which diseases it is of singular good effect by taking the juice in the Spring every morning fasting in a cup of drink The Decoction is good for the same purpose and the herb tunned up in new drink either by it self or with other things for it openeth obstructions or stoppings and evacuateth cold clammy and flegmatick humours both from the Liver and Spleen wasting and consuming the swelling and hardnesse thereof and thereby bringing to the body a more lively colour The Conserve made of the leaves is a fine delicate Medicine for weak and tender stomachs and worketh the same effect although a little slowly the like doth the Syrupe The manner of Administering it It is given in juice Decoction c. The outward Vse The Juice helpeth all foul Vlcers and sores in the mouth if it be often gargled therewith and used to the skin doth cleanse the same from spots marks or skars that happeneth therein Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrupe Conserve Salt and Spirit of Scurvy-grasse Sengreen See House-leek CHAP. 43. Of Shepheards purse The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Bursa pastoris or Pera pastoris in English shepheards purse or pouch and in the North Pick-purse and Case-weed It is counted by most to be cold and dry and much binding The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It stayeth all fluxes of blood as also the fluxes of the belly the bloody flux and the abundance of womens Courses or the pissing of blood the juice or the Decoction of the herb with some Plantane being drunk or any other way taken The manner of Administering it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse In a Glister it cureth the bloody flix and bruised and applied it helpeth inflammations and Saint Anthonies fire cureth green wounds and is of great effect being made into a