c. are large and round Docks are like Tobacco Elecampane Leafs are long large and few Thyme Rue Asparagus Sprigwell Fennel c. have many small Leafs Leafs of Orpine Aloes and Housleek are thick and oily Stonecrop Leaves are long and round like Rosemary some Leafs are indented as Radish Vervain Dandelion some less indented as Maudlin Alheal Tansie Sneeswort Arsmart rough and spotted Comfrey and Teazel are rough Leafs Bearsbreech and Mandrake are smooth and glib Burnet smells like a Cucumber stinking Orage like Old Ling Crosswort smells like Honey Willow-weed like coddled Apples Pasque-flower Gentian or Felwort being squeez'd and smelt to will bite the Nose Coriander smells strong so doth Smallage Rue Hemlock Henbane stinking Gladwin tastes like Roast-Beef Pignuts taste like other Nuts Vine-Leafs taste like Sorrel so doth Barbary-bush Rocket tastes like Milk burnt-to Cuckowpint hath a biting taste so hath Spearwort Aloes Lavender-cotton and the lesser Centaury Cresses Garden-Ginger and Terragon have a biting taste but pleasant Seaweed Scurvy-grass and Samphire taste salt Mirabolans and Fennelseed are sweet before ripe but afterwards taste spicey Tamarinds Barberries Crabs and Sloes have a pleasant sharp taste Euphorbium Celandine Sowthistle Spinage old Lettuce Figs from the Tree are bitter There is a Wormwood so like Lavender that it can be known from it only by the smell and taste Select Remedies against the Plague and any Venom or Poyson The King of Poland's Preservative against the Plague TAke of the best Vinegar six quarts Juice of Celandine clarified nine pints Leaves and Roots of Avens Roots of Elecampane of each one ounce Roots of Angelica Zedoary Juniper-berries of each two ounces Sage one handful Digest this two days in a gentle heat then strain it and keep it in Bottles clean and stopt This is a powerful Remedy both for preserving from and curing the Plague and oâ—her â—â—â—â—gnant Fevers It also clears the Sight to a wonder by taking a little Glass of it in the Morning fasting 'T is recorded That no Person who drank this in the great Plague in 1592 was infected with it but was preserv'd from it and all other Diseases Another great Preservative against the Plague Take Sage Elder-leaves Rubus Idens Rue Rosemary Wood-sorrel of each half a handful stamp 'em together in a Stone Mortar then put 'em in a Stone Pitcher or other suchlike Vessel and pouâ— upon them a pint of good Whitewine and a pint of Vinegar let it infuse 24 hours then strain it and add to the strain'd Liquor half a pint of Angelica-water then dissolve in it Mithridate and Venice-Treacle of each one dram Take of this Liquor one spoonful in the Morning another at Night and you shall be preserved If you fear you have taken any Infection take two or three spoonfuls of it and go to Bed and sweat if possible The great Preservative which Sir Kenelm Digby bid me prepare for his Family in the great Plague at London in 1665 was thus Take a pound of the Leaves of Wood-sorrel bruise 'em by themselves very well then take three pound of fine Sugar pouder'd and mix these together keeping it stiâ—ring and beating for three hours then get four ounces of Mithridate or London-Treacle pound 'em all together for half an hour longer then put it up in Gallipots and tie it up close with a Bladder Leather or Paper In time of Infection take the quantity of a large Nutmeg every Morning fasting and if you have taken any Infection or if you find your self struck with any Disease at Heart or Pain in the Stomach take almost as much more and get to Bed and sweat for an hour Of this I took my self and went up and down the City every day in the Plague-time and yet thro' GOD's Blessing was preserv'd so was all that took it But to preserve in time of Infection Sir Kenelm says 't is good to eat some tops of Rue with Bread and Butter and a little very old strong Cheese in a Morning and drink a Glass of Stomach-water Claret or Wine and Water after it An excellent Perfume for a House in time of Infection Take Talk reduce it to pouder and mix it with Vinegar so burn it in a Fireshovel of Coals and your House will by GOD's Assistance be preserv'd from Infection Another Perfume Take Roots of Angelica dry'd and pouder'd then mix the same with Vinegar and let it sleep therein three or four days so drop it on a hot Brick every Morning and Night In Holland Germany c. in time of Infection they burn Juniper-berries in a Chafingdish or a Fireshovel of Coals and go into every Room with it If the Berries be bruis'd and mix'd with Vinegar so burnt 't will be more effectual The Lady Allen's Plague-water Take Rue Agrimony Wormwood Celandine Sage Balm Mugwort Dragons Pimpernel Marigolds Fetherfeu Burnet Sorrel Scabious Wood-betony brown Mayweed Avens Tormentile Carduus Benedictus of each one handful Rosemary two handfuls Angelica and Burdocks each one handful Shred all these together very small then steep 'em in the best White-wine as much as will cover the Herbs then slice in four ounces of Elecampane-root Let all these steep three Days and Nights stirring them every 12 hours Cover the Tub close when you distill it lay it not above an inch thick in the bottom Save the first Running by it self The London plague-Plague-Water Take Roots of Angelica Masterwort Butterbur Peony-roots of each four ounces Vipergrass Virginia Snakeroot each one ounce Leafs of Rue Rosemary Balm Carduus Benedictus Scordium Marigoâ—d with the Flowers Dragon Goatsrue Mint of each two handfuls Shred the Herbs cut the Roots and stamp them a little and infuse 'em for two days in six quarts of Nants Brandy then put thereto six quarts of fair Water so distill it in an Alembeck drawing from it two gallons which put up in Bottles and hang two drams of Saffron in it ty'd up in a Rag Or make the Tincture of two drams of Saffron with the first running and mix that with the rest of your Water To every quart of this Water put two ounces of fine Sugar This is excellent against the Plague and all malignant Distempers as Small-pox Measles sâ—oâ—ted and purple Fevers c. The Dose is from one â—unce to two in Angelica or Sage-water sweetned with Sâ—rup of Clovegilliflowers Dr. Bruges's Antidote against the Plague Take Sage and Rue each one handful shred and stamp 'em then boil 'em in three pints of Malmsâ—y till a pint be consumed then strain and set it over the Fire again putting into it a Pennyworth of long Pepper Ginger half an ounce of Nutmegs and Cloves each two drams Beat 'em all together and let them boil a walm or two then put into it an ounce of Mithridate half an ounce of Treacle and a quarter of a pint of hot Angelica water Take of this a spoonful at a time every Morning during the Contagion and if infected before take two spoonfuls and sweat upon it Under GOD you may depend upon this sovereign Antidote for none that used it timely did ever find it fail 'T is likewise good in the Small-pox Measles or any malignant Fever Sir Walter Raleigh's Experiment to draw forth a Swelling or Plague-Sore Take a Cock-Chicken pull the Rump bare and hold it close to the Sore till the Venom is drawn out for then the Chicken will die but you must apply a fresh one till the Chicken lives and that will not be till all the Venom is out An approv'd Remedy for the Biting of mad Dogs either in Man or Beast Take a handful of Rue shred and stamp it one diam of Treacle and a spoonful of the shavings or filings of Tin put all these into a quart of Ale and boil it till half be consumed then strain it and give the Patient thereof two spoonfuls at Morning and Night Another Take rusty Bacon stamp it well with Betony and Agrimony each alike quantity and apply to the Bite A most excellent Remedy for Bitings of mad Dogs Vipers Serpents or Snakes experienc'd by a famous Chirurgion Take of the lesser Consolida or Larkspur Chervil the white ends of Leeks the tops of Broom of each two handfuls a little new Cream off the Morning Milk and a good handful of Salt Stamp them together in a Stone Mortar and with the Juice rub the Part griev'd which will be hard in the Flesh and sometimes black then lay it on the Part as a Poultice and tye it fast on with a Bandage the Swelling in a short time will abate and a Cure succeed Sir Kenelm Digby says That the same Chirurgion cured some with this Remedy when other Chirurgions would have cut off an Arm or Leg bit by venomous Beasts and that among the rest he cured a Man in Sir Kenelm's presence whose Arm was as black as Ink by being bitten by a Serpent Against Venom or Poyson Take Seeds of Sage bruise and boil them in Goats Milk what quantity you please till 't is wasted to a third part Drink thereof three days and you will find it a sovereign and effectual Remedy For biting of a Serpent or venomons Creature Drink the Juice of Plantane and stamp that and Celandine together each like quantity temper them with Urine the staler the better and apply to the Sore 't will asswage the Swelling and draw out the Venom Also anoint the place with the Oil of Shell-snails being prick'd with a Needle and lay thereto a Snail unprick'd FINIS
AN English Herbal OR A Discovery of the Physical Vertues of all Herbs in this Kingdom what Planet governs each Herb and how to gather them in their Planetary Hours CONTAINING Some Hundreds of Medicines Made of ENGLISH HERBS Whereby any Person may keep his Body in health or cure himself when sick for a small Charge with such Herbs and Roots as naturally grow in ENGLAND Collected for a General Good Sold by A. C. at the Ring in Little-Britain Reader YOU have herein an Account of the Herbs growing in England and the Planet that rules 'em that you may know how to gather 'em in their prime The Planets are the Sun ☉ Sunday the Moon ☽ Monday Mars ♂ Tuesday Mercury ☿ Wednesday Jupiter ♃ Thursday Venus ♀ Friday Saturn ♄ Saturday Observe that every Planet governs the first Hour after Sun-rise upon his Day and the next Planet to him takes the next Hour successively in his order so be it any Day every 7th Hour comes to each Planet successively for instance If the Day be Friday then the first Hour after Sun-rise is Venus's the next Saturn's and so on till it comes to Venus again If you gather Herbs in their planetary Hour some say you may do great matters otherwise not but be sure in gathering your Herbs you gather the most juicy so dry 'em in the Sun which some say is much better than Shade and keep 'em in Paper Bags Mr. Cole lays no stress on Planetary Hours further than that the Sun and Moon have influence over 'em the first fer Heat t'other for Moisture but that the Full Moon is a good time to gather Herbs whence the Juice is to be taken Those you gather for Winter Use do it before they run to Seed Flowers gather in their prime dry and lay up Seeds full ripe Roots keep near the Fire or they will rot Barks newly gather'd are best Other Authors say 't is best to gather Herbs when they are full of Juice on a clear Day when the Dew is gone off ' em Flowers gather when full blown Seeds when they begin to dry Fruit quite ripe Roots before they begin to spring and dry 'em carefully either in Sun or Shade it matters not NB. Our English Herbs make as wholsom Tea's as foreign sweeten'd with Sugar or Syrup and you may make 'em with Syrups or Berries of what Colour and Taste you please Notable Things AN English HERBAL ALehoof Ground-Ivy Gill or Coltsfoot grows in Hedges and in shaded Lanes 't is an Herb of Venus and cures the Diseases she causes by Simpathy and the Diseases of Mars by Antipathy Sodden in Swines-grease it 's a good Ointment for all Aches 't is excellent in Tea It 's also good for all inward Bruises Wounds Ulcers c. boil'd either by itself or other Wound-herbs it easeth all griping Pains or Wind in Spleen Stomach or Sides it cures the Jaundice expels Venom Poyson and Plague 'T is good against the Gout and provokes Urine Being put in Ale it clears it in a Night's time and cleanses the Blood The Juice drop'd into the Ears helps Noise and Deafness Agrimony an Herb of Jupiter grows on Banks by Hedges or other Fences It is moderately dry and binding temperate as to heat cleanses the Liver and Lungs helps the Jaundice and is profitable for the Bowels healing inward Bruises Wounds and Putrifactions Boil'd in Wine and drank 't is good for biting of mad Dogs stinging of Serpents c. It cures and clears filthy muddy Urine helps Coughs stops a Bloody-flux made into a Salve it cures Cancers old Sores and corroding Ulcers draws forth Splinters Thorns and Iron got into the Flesh It strengthens disjointed Limbs The Juice dropt into the Ears is good against Imposthumes a Tea made of it is good for sore Throats It 's a great Strengthner of the Liver and whole Body purifying the Blood used either in Ointment Decoction Diet-drink or as you please There 's also a Water-Agrimony has the same Vertue Being burnt the Smoak drives away Gnats Wasps Flies and other Insects A Draught of the Tea is good against Agues taken before the Fit comes Acorns see Oak Adders-tongue grows in Meadows and moist places and is govern'd by the Moon in Cancer but dry in the third degree 'T is good for green Wounds whether drank by Decoction or boil'd in Oil. It makes an excellent green Balsam like that of St. Johns-wort Alkanet an Herb of Venus is good for old Ulcers Inflamations St. Anthony's Fire c. If you make a Vinegar of it as you do of Roses it cures Leprosie and Morphew Apply it to the Womb it drives out the dead Child it helps Bruises is excellent to bring out the Small-pox and Measles it 's also good in green Wounds a Decoction with Hydromel drank helps the yellow Jaundice Ague-tree Sasafras-wood a Decoction in Water drank helps a Dropsy cures Agues expels Wind creates an Appetite helps the French Disease being laid in a Bed it drives away Bugs It sweetens the Breath and helps Coughs Colds c. It grows in the West-Indies Allheal grows in Gardens 't is an Herb of Mars being cholerick hot and biting It helps the Gout Cramp Convulsions kills Worms provokes Urine and helps all Joint-aches 't is good to cure Griefs of the Head Lethargy Falling-sickness Vertigo Wind-Cholick Obstructions of the Spleen Liver and Stone in Kidnies or Bladder It provokes the Terms and purgeth gently Amara Dulcis grows mostly in shady and moist places It removes Witchcraft from Man and Beast by wearing it about the Neck apply the Berries bruised to Felons stamp'd with rusty Bacon cures ' em It is under Mercury If both Wood and Leaves be boil'd together in Whitewine and drank in a Morning opens Obstructions helping Dropsy and Jaundice Aloes mixt with Rosewater and anointing kills Crab-lice 't is purgative and one chief Ingredient in Pills one or two Pills of washt Aloes may be us'd by such as are costive dimn-sighted heavy-hearted or otherwise indispos'd Roseate Aloe-Pills are gentle Purgers very good against yellow Jaundice There are 4 sorts distinguish'd by their purity or fineness Aloes Cabalina is the blackest Aloes Hepatica are Liver-colour'd and finer Aloes Cicatrina are of a Citron-colour or from the Tree Cicatoria Aloes Lucida are the brightest and best purging gently The Scotch Pill I suppose is thus made Make a strong Decoction a handful of Rue in a pint of Water in which dissolve a pound of Aloes when well dissolv'd pour off all the liquid leaving the gummy Sediment behind then evaporate over a gentle Fire in a clean Pipkin the watery consistence till it comes to the thickness of a Syrup mix in this an ounce of Myrrh finely pouder'd and a dram of Saffron or two in pouder holding the Saffron before the Fire a little As it cools make it into small Pills with Pouder of Liquorice and take 1 2 or 3 at any time an hour after Dinner or at Night Alexanders grow usually
Stitches Wind and kills Lice Buckthorn Plantane grows in sandy and many other Places is an Herb of Saturn being cold dry and very binding 'T is excellent against the biting of mad Dogs or Serpents if apply'd to the Place bitten The Roots boil'd in Whitewine opens Obstructions provokes Venery expels Gravel stops the Nose bleeding Lask of the Belly and Bloody-flux The Herb boil'd in Posset-drink cures the Defluxion of hot Humours in the Eyes and all sore Eyes Betony Water grows in Ditches and on Banks is under Jupiter in Cancer hot and dry in the second degree for Wounds 't is a good Herb and may be very effectual for old Ulcers Bruises and Wounds the Juice boil'd in Honey wet your Tents and Lint therewith and apply it The Water distill'd is good for Sun-burnt Hands or Face Betony Wood grows in Woods and shady Places this is also under Jupiter This as the Elder hath so many Vertues that a Book hath been written on them It fortifies the Heart and Liver prevents Epidemical Diseases helps Digestion encreases Appetite cures the Falling-sickness Jaundice Palsie and Witchcraft If you take the Root Flowers or Herb in Broth or Decoction Conserve or Syrup Electuary or Powder all work the same Cure It cures the Dropsy Scurvy Gout Frenzy short Breath Worms Stone Obstructions Tooth-ach biting of venomous Beasts Boyls Fistula's Distempers in the Bladder or Reins helps Women in Travail the Fume of the Decoction taken in at the Ears eases them Beech-tree grows among Oaks is under Saturn and is cold dry and binding Beech-tree-leaves are good apply'd to hot Swellings to disperse them and there is often found in Old Beeches a Water that cools hot Swellings and disperses them and cures Tettars Itch Scabs and Scurfs in Men or Beasts wash'd with it The Nuts or Masts are nourishing to Beasts that eat it and an Oyl is now made of the Mast to eat with Sallads little inferior to â—â—â—â—â—d-Oyl Bilberries grow on Heaths there are two 〈◊〉 Black and Red they are under Jupiter The Bâ—â—â—k are good in Feverish Agues they cool the Stomach Blood and Liver and are a little binding they strengthen the Stomach stay Vomiting and Loathing the Red are most binding They stop Fluxes and the Terms their Juice made into a Syrup is good against the Diseases before-mention'd 't is also good against spitting of Blood old Coughs Agues or Ulcers in the Lungs They make a pleasant and wholsome Tea with Sage Boifoyl or Twayblade is found in Copses and Woods another sort of it grows in wet Grounds and Marshes 'T is govern'd by Saturn and is dry and cold In all Wounds 't is very binding and consolidating for Ruptures 't is admirable both outwardly and inwardly apply'd Birch-tree grows in Woods is under Venus and by Nature hot and dry If you drink the dâ—still'd Water of the Leaves or the Water that comes out of the Tree when 't is pierc'd it breaks the Stone in the Reins and Bladder If the Water is â—â—still'd it serves for a Wash that beautifies the Face 'T is a good Water for a sore Throat or Mouth a Coal of the green Wood beaten to Powder and apply'd stops bleeding speedily Birds-foot grows on Heaths and barren Ground is under Saturn and of a drying binding healing quality It helps a Rupture outwardly or inwardly applied the Stone it also breaks Bishops-weed grows wild in most Places and is under Venus this Herb is hot and dry in the third degree 'T is in taste sweet and bitter and is very opening 'T is excellent in Consumptions expels Wind provokes the Courses and breaks the Stone taken in Wine it hinders the poisonous effects of any Poison being decocted and drank it cures a red Face and makes it pale if applied outwardly It also takes away Bruises or Deformities of the Skin making it pale and fair Bistort Snakeweed grows in moist Woods but mostly in Gardens there is two sorts 't is under Saturn cold and dry This Herb is a great Antidoâ—e against Poison the Root powder'd driveth out the Small-pox Plague Measles or any Malignity The Root decocted doth the same and helps spitting of Blood inward Bleedings and all Fluxes in Women or Men is good against Vomiting and Loathing Ruptures Bruises or Bursten It cures the Jaundice and eases Pains The distill'd Water or Decoction is good to wash the bites of mad Dogs or other venomous Beasts being drank it cureâ—h Abortion A dram of the Root taken in some of the Water for some time cures the running of the Reins injected into the Womb heals Ulcers it stops Defluxions applied to any part Buckshorn Sanguinaria grows in barren sandy Ground 't is an Herb under Saturn being one sort of Plantane Its Vertues are much the same being cold dry and binding It stops bleeding where-ever applied and destroys Warts Bugle is a sort of Comfry that grows in Woods is govern'd by Venus and temperately hot 't is a good Wound-herb applied outwardly or inwardly It cures Ulcers Fistula's and Gangrenes by Ointment Decoction Water Powder or Syrup It cures the Night-mare strange Fears or Sights in the Night Burnet grows in Gardens and also wild 't is an Herb of the Sun an excellent Herb to keep the Body in Health for as the Sun preserves Life in all so his Herbs are most cordial to all Boil'd in Wine it preserves the Brain and Heart from all Infection Pestilence nay it enlivens the Spirits tho' it be but put into a Glass and look'd on it cures Melancholy it cures a Dysentery or sux of the Blood Diarâ—â—â—â—a Vomiting or Loathing 'T is admirable in its Vertues used any way Butter-bur grows in moist Ground Marshes and by the Water-side 't is under the Sun hot and dry in the third degree 'T is most cordial to the Heart and Spirits and very bitter the Roots are good against the Plague and Small-pox when infected sweating out the Malignant Matter boil'd in Wine or Posset-drink Also the Powder of it drank in Wine is good against Suffocation or want of Breath it provokes Urine and the Courses and kills all sorts of Worms in Old or Young The Powder of the Root dries up all Sores that will not yield to other Medicines and takes away Blemishes and Spots Burdock is a stinking Bur that grows by the sides of Ditches any where 't is under Venus and cold in the first degree 'T is so attracting that the Seed or Leaves draw the Matrix upward or downward if you apply the Leaves to the top of the Head it draws it upward if to the soles of the Feet it draws it downward if you would stay it in its due place bind a Leaf to the Navel 'T is good for old Sores and Ulcers The Root is excellent for the Stone Lask or Consumption either preserv'd or otherwise The Seeds are used to break the Stone and for other Uses as beforesaid C Cabbages and Colworts grow in Gardens they are Plants of the Moon cold and dry and