the Liver oppressed that it cannot perfect the digestion and correcteth Choller and Flegm If you would have them purging put Honey in them instead of Sugar and if more laxative for Choller Rubarb for Flegm Turbith for Watery Humours Scammony but if more forcibly to bind use the unripe Quince with Roses and Acacia or Hipocistis and some torrefied Rubarb The Bay-tree THe Boughs of this Tree with Holly and Ivy are very comly to be set up about Pews in Churches also about several Rooms in Houses therefore vendible at Markets Vses Physical The Berries are very effectual against all Poison of Venemous Creatures as also against the Pestilence or other infectious diseases and therefore is put in sundry Treacles for that purpose seven of them given to a Woman in sore travail of Child-birth do cause a speedy Delivery and expel the After-birth and therefore not to be taken by such as have not gone out their aime lest they procure Abortment or cause labour too soon They wonderfully help all cold and rheumatick Distillations from the Brain to the Eyes Lungs or other parts A Bath of the Decoction of the Leaves and Berries is singular good for Women to sit in that are troubled with the Mother or the Diseases thereof or the stopping of their Courses or for the Diseases of the Bladder Pains in the Bowels by Wind and stopping of Urin. The Oil made of the Berries is very comfortable in all cold Griefs of the Joynts Nerves Arteries Stomach Belly or Womb and helpeth Palsies Convulsions Cramps Aches Trembling and Numness in any parts Weariness also and Pains that come by sore travelling all Griefs and Pains likewise proceeding from Wind either in the Head Stomach Back Belly or Womb by annointing the parts affected therewith A Decoction of equal parts of Bay-berries Cummin-seed Hysop Origanum and Euphorbium with some Honey doth wonderfully help Distillations and Rheums and setteth the Pallat of the Mouth into its place The Powder made into an Electuary with Hony doth help the Consumption Old Coughs Shortness of Breath and thin Rheumes also the Meagrim they mightily expel Wind and provoke Urin help the Mother and kill the Worms Thus have we given an account of the Vse and Vertues of all Trees and Shrubs planted within this Pleasant Land In the next place we shall give you the Vertues and Vse of those Roots and Herbs and only those that are most common and useful in a Family Alexander Vertues and Vse ALexander is a timely Pot-herb It warmeth a cold Stomach and openeth stoppings of the Liver and Spleen it helpeth the Strangury it is good to break Wind to provoke Vrin to move Womens Courses and to expel the After-birth if the herb be boyled in Wine or being bruised and taken in Wine The Seed is likewise effectual for all these things Alexander Potage is very good and wholsom food Asparagus Vertues and Vse THe Buds or young Shoots of this Plant are much sold and eaten in and about London The Shoots or Branches boyled in White-wine or Vinegar is prevalent for them that have Arteries loosned or are troubled with the Hip-gout or Sciatica and boiled in ordinary broth maketh the Belly soluble and open The Decoction of the Roots in White-wine and the Back and Belly bathed therewith or sitting therein as a Bath or kneeling or lying down in the same hath been found effectual against Pains in the Reins and Bladder Pains of the Mother and Chollick and no less effectual against stiff and benummed Sinews or those that are shrunk by Cramps and Convulsions and helpeth the Sciatica The Decoction of the Roots boyled in Wine and taken is good to clear the Sight and being taken fasting several Mornings together stirreth up bodily lust in Man or Woman The Buds or Branches boyled in ones ordinary Broth provoketh Urin being stopped it expelleth the Gravel and Stone out of the Kidneys Anniseeds Vertues and Vse ANnise-seeds are of an opening and cleansing quality therefore very effectual to break Wind and open Obstructions and are much used in Comfits Artichoaks Vertues and Vse ARrtichoaks are plentifull of fruit and much desired for they increase Sperm and procure bodily Lust. Angelica Vertues and Vse THe Stalks or Roots candied and eaten fasting are good Preservatives in time of Infection and at other times to warm and comfort a cold Stomach The Root also steeped in Vinegar and a little of that Vinegar taken sometimes fasting and the Root smelled unto is good for the same purpose The Root steeped in Wine and a Water distilled from the said Root in glass and two or three spoonfuls at a time easeth all Pains and Torments coming of Cold and Wind so as the Body be not bound and taken with some of the Root in Powder at the beginning helpeth the Plurisie as all other Diseases of the Lungs and Breast as Coughs Pthisick and and Shortness of Breath It helps Pains of the Chollick the Strangury and stopping of the Urin openeth the Stoppings of the Liver and Spleen The Decoction drunk before the Fit of an Ague that they may sweat if possible before the Fit come will in two or three times taking rid it quite away It helps digestion and is a Remedy for a Suâ—fit The Juice or the Water dropped or Tents wet therein and put into old filthy deep Vlcers or the Powder of the Root in want of either doth cleanse and cause them to heal quickly by covering the naked bones with flesh The Root taken in Powder to the weight of half a drachm at a time with some good Treacle in Carduus Water it doth resist Poison the Plague and all Epidemical Diseases if the party thereupon be laid to sweat in his Bed Alehoofe Vertues and Vse A Handful of the said Herb put into Drink that is thick with removing or any other accident it will clarifie it in a few hours and if tunn'd up with new Drink it will so clarifie it in a night that it will be the fitter to be drunk the next morning The Decoction of it in Wine drunk for some time together procureth ease unto them that are troubled with the Sciatica or Hip-gout as also the Gout in the Hands Knees or Feet The Juice boyled with a little Honey and Verdigrees doth wonderfully cleanse Fistula's Vlcers and stayeth the spreading and eating of Cancers and Vlcers The Decoction of Ground-Ivy in Wine and if you put to it some Honey and a little burnt Allum it is excellent good to gargle any sore Mouth or Throat and to wash Sores and Ulcers The Herb boyled and drunk is singular good for exulcerated Lungs and being drunk tunn'd up in Beer or Ale it in a short time easeth all griping Pains windy and chollerick Humors in the Stomach Spleen or Belly An Excellent Receit for Sore Eyes The Juice of Celandine Field-Daisies and Ground-Ivy clarified and a little fine Sugar dissolved therein and dropped into the eye is a soveraign Remedy for all the Pains Redness and
the Plague Sage Rosemary Honey-suckles and Plantane boyled in Wine or Water with Honey and Allum put thereto is an excellent Gargle to wash sore Mouths and Throats Cankers or the secret parts of Man or Woman A Medicine or Pills much commended for those that are in a Consumption Take of Spicknard and Ginger of each two drachms of the Seed of Sage toasted at the fire eight drachms of long-Pepper twelve drachms all these being brought into fine Powder put thereto so much Juice of Sage as may make them into a Mass for Pâ—lls taking a drachm of them every Morning fasting and so likewise at night drinking a little pure water after them It helpeth also the Falling-sickness the Lethargy the Palsie and all Defluxions of Rheum from the Head and for the diseases of the Chest or Breast also all pains of the Head and Joynts that come of cold Winter and Summer Savory Vertues and Vse THe Conserves and Syrups of these Herbs are a very good Remedy against the Chollick and Iliack passions expelling Wind in the Stomach and Bowels also it is a present help for the rising of the Mother procured by wind it cutteth tough Flegm in the Chest and Lungs and helpeth to expectorate it the more easily The Herbs are both of them hot and dry but the Summer Savory is more effectual to all the purposes aforesaid they are both of them very good Pot-herbs Saffron Vertues and Vse THis Herb is a very good Cordial and a notable expulsive Medicine against Epidemical Diseases as Pestilence Small-Pox and Measles an excellent Remedy for the Yellow-Jaundice it quickens the Brain helps difficulty of breathing Consumption of the Lungs and exceedingly strengthens the Heart but let not above ten grains of the dried Flowers be given at one time for an immoderate quantity may hurt the heart instead of helping it Scurvy-grass Vertues and Vse THe Herb tunned up in new Drink either by it self or with other things openth Obstructions evacuateth cold clammy and flegmatick humors both from the Liver and Spleen wasting and consuming both the swelling and hardness thereof The Juice of Dutch Scurvey-grass if to be had or else the English drunk in the Spring every morning fasting in a Cup of Drink or the Decoction thereof drunk is effectual for all the Diseases before mentioned also to purge and cleanse the Blood the Liver and the Spleen and especially for those that have the Scurvey Sorrel Vertues and Vse THe Roots of Sorrel in a Decoction or in Powder is good in all hot Diseases to cool any inflammation and heat of blood in Agues pestilential or cholletick or other Sicknesses and Faintings rising from heat and to quench Thirst and procure an Appetite in fainting or decayed Stomachs A Syrup made with the Juice of Sorrel and Fumitory is a soveraign help to kill those sharp humors that cause the Itch the Decoction of the Flowers made with Wine and drunck helpeth the Black Jaundice as also the inward Ulcers of the Body and Bowels The Seed and Herb is effectual in all the causes aforesaid Wood-sorrel serveth to all the purposes that the other or Garden Sorrel doth and more effectually Smallage Vertues and Vse THe Juice of this Herb taken but especially if made into a Syrup openeth obstructions of the Liver and Spleen rarifieth thick Flegm and cleanseth it and the blood and is singular good against the Yellow-Jaundice The Juice put to Hony of Roses and Barley-water is very good to gargle the Mouth and Throat of those that have Sores and Ulcers in them and healeth all other foul Ulcers and Cankers elsewhere if washed therewith The Decoction of the Root in Wine or the Juice thereof taken in Wine is held to be stronger in operation than the Herb to all the purposes aforesaid Smallage Potage eaten in the Spring is very effectual to purge and cleanse the Blood Succory Vertues and Vse THe Distilled Water of the Herb and Flowers is especial good for hot Stomachs and in Agues either Pestilential or of Long continuance for Swounings and Passions of the Heart for the Heat and Head-ach in Children A Decoction made in Wine and drunk or a drachm of the Seed in Powder drunk in Wine before the Fit of an Ague helpeth to drive it away A handful of the Leaves or Roots boyled in Wine or Water and a draught thereof drunk fasting driveth forth cholerick and flegmatick humors openeth obstructions of the Liver Gall and Spleen helpeth the Yellow Jaundice the heat of the Reins and of the Urin also the Dropsie English Tobacco Vertues and Vse THe Herb bruised and applyed to the place grieved with the Kings Evil helpeth it effectually in nine or ten dayes it also cureth any fresh wound or cut and the Juice put into old sores both cleanseth and healeth them The Juice made into a Syrup or the Distilled Water of the Herb drunk with some Sugar or the Smoke taken by a Pipe but only fasting The same helpeth to expel Worms in the Stomach and Belly and to ease the pains in the Head and the griping pains in the Bowels It is good to provoke Urin and expel Gravel and the Stone in the Kidneys also to expel Windiness and other Humors which cause the Strangurie or the Mother Tansie Vertues and Vse THe Herb bruised and often smelled unto as also applied to the Navil is very profitable for such Women as are given to miscarry in Child-bearing or the Herb boiled in ordinary Beer and the Decoction drunk doth the like let those Women that desire Children make use of this Herb for if their Womb be not as they would have it this Decoction will make it as it should be The Decoction or the Juice drunk in Wine helpeth the Strangury and those that have weak Reins and Kidneys it also expels wind in the Stomach Belly or Bowels and is good to procuâ—e Womens Courses A Tansie made with the Herb and Eggs helpeth to digest and carry downward those bad humors that trouble the stomach Violets Vertues and Vse THe Syrup of Violets is effectual in the Plurisie and all Diseases of the Lungs to lenifie the sharpness of hot Rheums and the hoarsness of the Throat the heat also and sharpness of Urin and all pains of the Back Reins and Bladder it is good also for the Liver and Jaundice and to cool the heat and quench the thirst in hot Agues and if a little of the Juice of Lemmons be put to it or a few drops of the Oyl of Vitriol it is made thereby the more powerful to cool the heat and quench the thirst A Decoction of the Leaves or Flowers made with Water or Wine and drunk or to ayply them Poultis wise to the grieved place easeth the pains also the pains in the Head A drachm weight of the dried Leaves of the Flowers of Violets taken in Wine or any other Drink a draught in a morning fasting doth strongly purge the Body of cholerick humors and asswageth the
Watering of them as also for the Pin and Web Skins and Films growing over the sight it helpeth Beasts also Garden Beans Vertues and Vse BEans eaten are extreme windy meat but if eaten with Bacon they are good food and useful in a Family and if after the Dutch fashion when they are half boyled you husk them and then stew them with sweet Butter they are wholsomer food The Flower of Beans and Fenugreek mixed with Hony and applyed to Fellons Boyles Bruises or blue marks by blows or the Imposthumes in the Kernels of the Ears helpeth them all and with Rose-leaves Frankincense and the White of an Egg being applyed to the Eyes helpeth them that are swoln or do water or have received any blow upon them if used with Wine The Ashes of the Husks made up with old Hogs-grease helpeth the old Pains Contusions and Wounds of the Sinews the Sciatica and Gout The Water distilled from the green Husks is held to be very effectual against the Stone and to provoke Urin. Bean Flower is used in Poultisses to asswage Inflammations rising upon Wounds and the Swelling of Womens Breast French-Beans Vertues and Vse THe ordinary French or Kidney-Beans are much in use being sold in every Market and commonly boyled and eaten with the Husk they are of an easie digestion they move the Belly provoke Urin enlarge the Breast that is straitned with shortness of breath engender Sperm and incite Venery Balm Vertues and Vse A Syrup with the Juice of this Herb and Sugar would be kept in every Gentlewomans House to relieve the weak Stomachs and sick Bodies of their poor sickly Neighbours as also the Herb kept dry in the House that so with other convenient Simples you may make it into an Electuary with Honey according as the Disease is The Herb bruised and boyled in a little Wine and Oil and laid warm on a Boil will ripen and break it The Leaves with a little Nitre taken in Drink are good against a Surfet of Mushromes helps the griping pains of the Belly and being made into an Electuary is good for them that cannot fetch their breath A Tansie or Cawdle made with Eggs and the Juice thereof while it is young putting to it some Sugar and Rose-water is good for Women in Childbed when the After-birth is not throughly avoided and for their faintings upon or after their sore Travel This is an excellent Herb to revive a fainting Heart and drive away all troublesome cares and thoughts out of the mind arising from Melancholly or black Choller it is very good to help Digestion and open the Obstructions of the Brain and causeth the Mind and Heart to become merry Wood-Betony Vertues and Vse THis is a very precious Herb most fitting to be kept in a Mans House both in Syrup Conserve Oyl Ointment and Plaister The Flowers are usually conserved The Green Herb bruised or the Juice applyed to any inward Hurt or outward green Wound in the Head or Body will quickly heal and close it up as also any broken Bone Splinter Thorn or other thing gotten into the Flesh and old Sores or filthy Ulcers The Powder of Betony mixed with pure Honey is very good for all sorts of Coughs or Colds Wheesing or Shortness of Breath Distillations of thin Rheum upon the Lungs which causeth Consumptions The Herb the Root or the Flâ—wers in Broth drunk or made into Conserve Syruâ— Electuary Water or Powder either of these wayes taken helpeth the Palsie Falling-sickness Jaundice Convulsions Gout or Shrinking of the Sinews Dropsies and Pains in the Head The Decoction of the Herb made with Mead and a little Penyroyal is good for those that are troubled with putrid Agues The Decoction made in Wine killeth the Worms in the Belly openeth Obstructions both of Spleen and Liver cureth Stitches and Pains in the Back or Sides the Torments and gripâ—ng of Pains of the Bowels and the Wind-Chollick and mixed with Honey purgeth the Belly A Drachm of the Powder of Betony taken with a little Honey in some Vinegar doth wonderfully refresh those that are oveâ—wearied by travail and helpeth those that piss or spit blood or that are Bursten or have a Rupture The Juice dropped into the Ears destroyeth the Worms easeth the Pains and cureth the running Sores in them The Leaves and Flowers are comfortable both in Meat and Medicine and helpeth those that cannot digest their meat or sowre Belchings or continual Rising in their stomach using them either green or dry Burnet Vertues and Vse THis Herb is little inferior to Betony for it is a most precious herb the continual use of it preserves the Body in health The Juice taken in some Drink and the Party laid to sweat is a special help to defend the heart from noisom Vapours and from infection of the Pestilence The distilled Water the Juyce or Decoction of the Herb or the Powder of the Root or Herb they are available in all manner of Fluxes of blood or humors to stanch bleeding inward or outward Lasks Scourings the Bloody-flux Womens too aboundant Courses the Whites and the chollerick belchings and castings of the Stomach and is a singular good Wound-herb for all sorts of Wounds either inward or outward Burrage and Bugloss Vertues and Vse THese are both great Cordials great Strengthners of Nature exceeding good Pot-herbs good for Bees and most comfortable for the heart and stomach The Flowers candied or made into a Conserve is good for those that are weak with long sickness and to comfort the heart and spirits of those that are in a Consumption or troubled with often swoonings or passions of the Heart The Distilled Water is effectual to all the purposes aforesaid and helpeth the redness and inflammation of the Eyes being washed therewith The Juice of the Herb made into a Syrup and taken is good to defend the Heart and help to resist and expel Poyson also good to expel Pensiveness and Melancholly it helpeth to clarifie the blood and mitigate heat in Feveâ—s The Root Seed and Leaves are good to all the purposes aforesaid The Seed and Leaves are good to encrease Milk in Womens Breasts The Leaves Flowers and Seed all or any of them are put with other cooling opening cleansing herbs to open Obstructions help the yellow Jaundice and mixed with Fumitory to cool cleanse and temper the Blood thereby it helpeth all spreading Scabs or Sores Carrets Vertues and Vse THey are useful in a Family and that Powder-beef Eaters do well know Carrets break Wind and remove Stitches in the Sides provoke Urin and Womens Courses and help to break and expel the Stone the wild kind is most effectual to the purposes aforesaid the Seed is good for the Dropsie helpeth the Chollick the Stone in the Kidneys and helpeth Conception being taken in Wine Cabbages and Coleworts Vertues and Vse THese are our Country Housewifes Pot-herbs they are much commended being eaten before meat to keep one from suâ—fetting as also from being drunk with Wine The often
this South-west Grove and the Dwelling-house just opposite to the Warren is the great Fish-pond or Decoy by Boat you may over into the Island in the middle of which you may behold a stately Bird-cage or Aviary full of singing and whistling Birds round this Cage at an equal distance one from the other are 4 Seats covered over with several Greens There having rested your self and afterwards walking round the Island you may behold pleasant to your sight several Holley or Hombe Bushes kept very neat and handsom for the Decoys and other wild Ducks to lay their Eggs in as those in the Warren made of wood for the tame Ducks And taking Boat again you may walk into the Arable Land and behold Gods blessing by the great increase of Corn and returning through the Pasture Fields into the Dwelling-House you may rest and be refreshed with such food as this pleasant Land doth afford and being satisfied pause with your self and consider although this be not the Paradise we read of yet it does much resemble the same for what was Paradise but a Garden and Orchard of Trees and Herbs full of pleasure and nothing there but delights so is there here for first here is the Nightingale the pretty Robin-red-brest and the little Wren with all the musical Birds that both whistle and sing with a pleasant Consort of Wind musick to usher in the Spring and refreshing and easing those cares of which we by our offence are all made Heirs In the Summer to furnish your Table a fat Buck will be in season also young Peacocks Turkies Phesants Partridge and many other Fowl which are at your command with variety of Fish and other Flesh as Hares Rabbets and such like your Orchards and Gardens will afford you several sorts of Fruit and pleasant Flowers both for colours and scent and in the Groves and Woods most stately Trees and pleasant Walks What shall I say a thousand pleasant Delights are attendant in this Pleasant Land And what is there of all these few that I have reckoned which does not please the eye the ear the smell the taste yea the other sence may also take great pleasure in handling such rare Fruit and Flowers as are presented In the Winter there will come in a new supply to furnish your Delights at Table and that is Felfares Black-birds Thrushes Quail Rayl Woodcocks Snipes Wildgeese Duck and Mallard Widgen and Teal with many more And the remainder of the Summer Stock now in season as Turkies Pheasant Partridge Hares Conies and such like and a hot Pasty made of the flesh of a Barren Doe will not be out of season neither a fat Pig and Gammon of Bacon The Bees have laboured all the Summer to provide Hony and Wax for your Winter occasions and the Dairy-Maids have not been idle but provided Butter and Cheese to serve your Family all Winter and Spring besides the Monies made at Markets The Kitchen Garden will also furnish your Table with several sorts of Roots and Herbs and the Physick Garden with Roots Herbs and Seed to preserve your health Now the pretty Silk-worms are hard at labour spining Silk to cloath you and if the Gardener be an Artist he hath provided from the Grape both Sack and Claret to chear your spirits And in the Bowling-green you may by Exercise add unto all these pleasures by refreshing your senses keep your body in health But to sum up all if you did know the yearly profit that does arise out of this pleasant land you would find it a sufficient overweight to all your pleasures I did intend here to set down the particular and total Charge thus to plant 200 Acres of Land with the yearly profit that may arise from the same as I have performed in planting a thousand Acres with Timber-trees and Underwoods But this already swelling the bulk of my Book beyond my intentions promise the next opportunity when I shall have an occasion to speak of something concerning the whole Body of Husbandry both to do that and also to polish these rough-hewed lines laying down the best way of improving all kind of Earths simple and compound rich and barren We shall now conclude this Treatise with giving you the Vertues and Use of all Plants growing in this our Paradise And I shall begin with the first planted and so in order proceed The Hawthorn THis Plant being well planted and liking the ground makes the best Fence or Hedge that can be made by any Plant The Seed or Berries are wholsom Winter food for the Deer and spare Swine also good food for Blackbirds Felfares Thrushes and such like The Uses Physical The seed in the berries beaten to powder and drunk in Wine is very good against the Stone and Dropsie the Distilled water of the Flowers stayeth the Lask and if Clothes be wet in the Water will wonderfully draw out any thorn or splinters that abide in the flesh if applyed to the place grieved The Blackthorn Sloes are very good Winter food for spare Swine also Deer will feed on them The Vses Physical All the parts of the Sloe-bush are binding cooling and drying and all effectual to stay bleeding at the Nose and Mouth or any other place the Decoction of the Berries either fresh or dried or the Conserve which is most familiarly taken is very good to stay the Lask of the belly or stomach or the Bloody-flux and helpeth to ease the pains in the Sides Bowels and Guts but the distilled water of the Flowers first steeped in Sack for a night and drawn therefrom by the heat of a Balneum Anglice a Bath is a most certain Remedy tried and approved to ease all manner of gnawings in the Stomach Sides and Bowels or any griping pains in any of them To drink a small quantity when the extremity of pain is upon them the simple distilled water of the Flowers or green Berries are good to wash and gargle the mouth and throat wherein are swellings sores or kernels and to stay the defluxions of Rhume to the eyes or other parts as also to cool the heat and inflamations in them and to ease the hot pains of the head to bathe the forehead and temples therewith The Oak THe Timber of this Tree is the Walls and Bulwark of England being converted to the use of building Ships also it is sound and long-lasting Timber for building Houses and for many other uses The seed called Acorns are very good food for the Deer Swine and Poultry The Vses Physical The Acorn-cups and the Bark and Leaves do bind and dry very much the Decoction of the inner bark and powder of the Cups stay â—â—â—iting or flux of blood in Man or Woman and the involuntary flux of natural seed The Acorns in powder taken in Wine provoke Urin and resist the poyson of venemous Creatures The distilled Water or Decoction of the leaves is a special Remedy for the Whites in Women The Oken Buds are good to be used
against pestilential and hot burning Fevers it cooleth the heat of the liver and breaketh the stone The Decoction of Acorns and the Bark made in Milk and taken resisteth the force of poysonous Herbs and Medicines The Beech. THe Timber of this Tree is used about Keels of Ships also Quarters for building houses Fellows and Spokes for Cart-wheels and all sort of Joynery ware also many Implements of Husbandry and firing The seed called Beech-mast is very good feeding for Swine to make them Porkers and for Bacon also good food for the Deer Wild Peacocks Turkies Ducks and other Fowl The Vses Physical The Water found in the hollow places of decaying Beeches will cure both Man and Beast of any Scurff Scab or Running Teters if washed therewith the Leaves of the Beech are cooling and binding and therefore good to be laid to hot swellings to discuss them you may boyl the Leaves into a Poultis or make an Ointment of them when time of year serves The Chesnut-tree THis Timber is very serviceable for building it being of very long lasting also very good for Hoops and Hop-poles Turnery ware and Joyners These Nuts are vendible at Markets also special food to fat Hogs and for feeding of Deeâ— Peacocks Turkies and other Fowl and may be used in the Family being well boyled or rosted in the fire The Walnut-tree THe Timber is very usefull for Joyners and Turners c. These Nuts are vendible in Markets and will serve to crack in the house being distributed among the Servants the overplus may be given to the Swine for they will make very good Bacon The Vses Physical The Bark and Leaves of the Tree being taken young do bind and dry and taken with sweet wine they move the belly downwards but being old they grieve the stomach in hot Bodies cause choller and head-ach The Kernels being taken with Juniper Berries Rue Figs and a little Salt in a Morning fasting is an Antidote against any poison or infection but when the Kernels grow old they are more oily and are not fit to be eaten but are then used to heal wounds of the sinews Gangrenes and Carbuncles the said Kernels being burned are very astringent and being taken in Red-wine will stay the Hasks and Womens Courses and being mixed with Oyl and Wine the head being annointed therewith will stay the falling of the hair The Kernels being beaten with Rue and VVine helpeth the Quinsie the Oyl that is pressed out of the Kernels is very profitable taken inward like Oyl of Almonds To help the Chollick and expel VVind an ounce or two thereof may be taken at a time The distilled Water of the green husk before they be half ripe and drunk an ounce or two at a time is of excellent use to cool the heat of Agues also to resist the Infection of the Plague and if some of the said Water be applyed to the Sores it will work more effectually The Distilled Water of the green husk being ripe and when they are shelled from the Nuts and drunk with a little Vinegar is very good for those that are infected with the Plague so as before the taking thereof a vein be opened the said Water is also very good against the Quinsie being gargled and bathed therewith and helpeth the deafness and pains in the ears The Distilled Water of young green leaves in the end of May is a singular Cure for foul running Vlcers and Sores being bathed therewith The young green Nuts taken before they be half ripe and preserved with sugar are very good for those that have weak stomachs or Defluxions thereon The next that follows are the Plants planted in the Groves The Ash. THese Plants being young are very useful for making Hoops and Hop-poles and when they are grown to Timber they will serve for several sorts of Coopers Ware and other Necessaries and Firing The Vses Physical The Distilled Water of the young tender tops and the leaves of the Ash being taken a small quantity every morning is a singular Medicine for those that are subject to the Dropsie or to abate the greatness of those that are too gross or fat The ashes of the Bark made into Lye will cure those heads that are leprous scabby or scald if bathed therewith The decoction of the leaves in White-wine cureth the Jaundice and helpeth to break the Stone and expel it The Kernel within the husks commonly called Ashen-keys prevaileth against stitches and pains in the Sides proceeding of Wind and avoideth away the Stone by provoking uâ—in The Withey THese Plants are very useful for making Hoops and Hop-poles when they are young and when they are grown great they will serve for several Implements of Husbandry also Firing The Vses Physical The Decoction of the leaves bark and seed of the Withey being drunk in Wine helpeth to stay thin hot sharp salt distillations from the head upon the Lungs causing a Consumption The Leaves bruised with some Pepper and drunk in Wine much helpeth the Wind-Collick The Water gathered from the Withey when it flowreth by slitting the Bark and setting a Vessel to receive it is very good for dimness of sight taking away the films that grow over the eyes it also stays Rhumes that fall into them and clear the face and skin from spots and discolourings The Flowers and Bark being boyled in White-wine wine and drunk a good quantity for you cannot well drink too much it being a very cool tree is a Medicine that hath an admirable faculty in drying up humors The burnt ashes of the Bâ—rk being mixed with Vinegar taketh away Warts Corns and superfluous flesh being applyed to the place The Hazel Nut and Filbud-trees THese Nut Plants at 8 years growth will make very good smart hoops also there will be besides the hoops many Rods very useful to make hurdles for Sheep-pens breading walls and such like The Nuts and Filbuds are good Marketable Ware and these Nuts mixed with the Walnuts and Chesnuts will feed Hogs wonderfully and make better Bacon than that called Westphalia The Vses Physical The dryed husks and shels of the Hazel Nut to the weight of 2 drachmes taken in Red-wine stayeth Lasks and womens Courses The Milk drawn from the kernels or the parched kernels made into an Electuary with Mead or Honied water is very good to help an old Cough The Kernels being parched and a little Pepper put to them and drunk digest the distillations of the Rheume from the head therefore the opinion of those that say that Nuts cause shortness of breath is most false for how can that which strengthens the Lungs cause shortness of breath The Barberry-bush THese Berries are vendible at Markets also the Syrops Conserves and Preserves of the said Berries are of great use in a Family therefore they ought to be ready in the house upon all occasions The Vses Physical The Fruit and Rind of the Shrub with the Flowers of Broom and Heath and Furs cleanse the body of Choller the Berries get
a man a good stomach to his victuals by strengthening the attractive faculty the inner Rind of the Barberry-tree boyled in VVhite-wine and a quarter of a pint drunk each morning doth cleanse the body of Chollerick humors and free it from such Diseases as choller causeth such are Scabs Itches Tetters Ring-worms Yellow-Jaundice Boils c. It is excellent for hot Agues Burnings Scaldings heat of the Blood heat of the Lâ—ver Bloodiflux the Berries are as good as the Bark and more pleasing they may be kept all the year being made into Conserves Preserves c. The Blackberry Bush. THese Berries are good for young Turkies Peacocks and many other Poultry The Vses Physical The Berries or the Flowers are a powerful Remedy against the poyson of the most venemous Serpents as well drunk as outwardly applyed helpeth the Sores of the fundament and the Piles but the flower and fruit unripe are very binding and so profitable for the Bloody-flux or Lask and are a fit Remedy for spitting of blood the distilled water of the branches leaves and flowers or of the fruit is very pleasant in taste and very effectual in Fevers and hot distempers of the Body Head Eyes and other parts also do cure Ulcers Sores VVounds Bloody-flux Quinsie Either the Decoction or Powder of the Root being taken is good to break or drive forth Gravel and the Stone in the Reins and Kidneys the Leaves and Brambles as well green as dry are excellent good Lotions for Sores in the Mouth or Secret parts the Juice of the Berries mixed with the Juice of Mulberries do bind more effectually and help fretting and eating Sores and Ulcers wheresoever the Powder of the Leaves strewed on cankrous and running Ulcers doth wonderfully help to heal them the Leaves boiled in-Lye and the head washed therewith healeth the Itch and running sores thereof and maketh the hair black The Rasberry-Bush Vertues and use THese Berries do make wholsome VVine called Rasberry VVine The Conserves of Rasberries are very good against many distempers of the Body therefore useful to be kept in house all the year the Berries are very pleasant to eat with Cream or VVine the Syrop of the Berries is cooling and good for a sore mouth and throat and other diseases that come of heat also they are vendible at Markets and good food for the young Peacocks Turkies and other Poultry The Gooseberry-Bush Vertues and Vse BEsides the ordinary eating of them they are of good use preserved also baked in Pies or Tarts the overplus may be sold or given to the Swine and Poultry The Currant-Bush Vertues and Vse BEsides the ordinary spending of this fruit there are Syrrups Conserves and Preserves made of them very usefull in a Family what is not spent in the House or sold the little Birds will feed on and in their season you may feed on them so that it is but converting Currants into flesh and you may make a sufficient Improvmement of them Straberries THis is a cool Berry and very wholesome to eat in wine what is not spent in the Family or sold in Markets the Birds will be glad of The Uses Physical The Distilled water of the Berries is a soveraign Remedy and Cordial in the panting and beating of the heart and is good for the yellow Jaundice The Juice or VVater is singular good for hot inflamed eyes if dropped into them The Leaves and Roots boyled in Wine and Water and drunk do cool the Liver and Blood and asswage all Inflammations in the Reins and Bladder allayeth the heat and sharpness of the Urin stayeth the Bloody-flux and Womens Courses and helpeth the swelling of the Spleen The Berries when they are ripe are cold and moist therefore excellent to cool the Liver the Blood and Spleen or an hot chollerick Stomach also to refresh and comfort the fainting spirits and quench thirst they are good also for other Inflammations yet it is not amiss to refrain them in a Fever lest by their putrefying the Stomach they encrease the Fits The Juice or Water is of excellent use for all Pushes Wheals and other breaking forth of hot and sharp humors in the face and hands or other parts of the Body to bath them therewith Lotions and Gargles for sore Mouths or Vlcers therein or in the Privy parts or elsewhere are made with Roots and Leaves We shall here add a Receit or Medicine for Sore-eyes Take so many Strawberries as you shall think fitting and put them into a Distillatory or body of Glass fit for them which being well closed set it in a Bed of horse-dung for twelve or fourteen dayes and afterwards distill it carefully and keep it for your use We shall now proceed to the Orchards and Gardens The Service-tree THese Berries when they are ripe may be spent in the House and some of them sold and what is left Birds and Poultry will help you away with Uses Physical Services when they are mellow are fit to be taken to stay Fluxes Scowring and Costing but if they be dryed before they be mellow and kept all the year they may be used in Decoctions for the said purpose either to drink or to bath the parts requiring it and is profitable used in that manner to stay the bleeding of wounds and at the Mouth and Nose to be applyed to the forehead or nape of the Neck The Mulberry-tree THe Leaves of this Tree are the chiefest food for the Silk-worms and about that time the Leaves grow old and begin to fall then these Worms begin to spin and will require no more food and about the time the sap puts forth leaves again which will be about the next Spring following the said old Worms having laid many Eggs do die and the said Eggs produce young Worms to feed on the new or young leaves The Syrup or Conserves of the Berries are very useful in a Family therefore are to be kept in house all the year There is Wine also made of the Berries which will cheer and comfort the spirits The Uses Physical The Berries being ripe and eaten open the Belly and the unripe bind being dried they are good to stay Fluxes The juice or the syrup made of the juice of the ripe Berries helpeth all Inflammations and Sores in the Mouth Throat and Pallat of the Mouth when it is fallen down The leaves beaten with vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire A Decoction made of the bark and leaves is good to wash the mouth and teeth when they ake if the root be a little slit or cut and a small hole made in the ground next thereunto in the Harvest time it will give out a certain juice which being hardned the next day is of good use to help the Tooth-ach to dissolve Knots and purge the Belly This Berry will also sell at Markets the overplus will feed the Swine and Poultry The Ch rry-tree CHerries will vent at most Markets and arise to a considerable profit if you
Family All Plums are vendible in Markets Vses Physical Plumtree Leaves boyled in Wine is good to wash and gargle the mouth and throat to dry the flux of Rhume coming to the Pallat Gums or Almonds of the ears Plums that are sweet moisten the stomach make the Belly soluble those that are sowr quench thirst more and bind the Belly the Gum or Leaves boyled in Vinegar and applyed killeth Tetters and Ringworms the dryed Fruit sold by the Grocers under the name of Damask Prunes do somewhat loosen the Belly and being stewed are often used both in health and sickness to rellish the mouth and stomach to procure appetite and a little to open the Body allay Choller and cool the Stomach The flowers of the Peach-tree steeped all night in a little Wine standing warm strained forth in the morning and drunk fasting doth greatly open the Belly and move it downwards A Syrup made of them as the Syrup of Roses is made worketh more forcibly than that of Roses for it provoketh Vomiting and spendeth Waterish and Hydroptick Humors by the continuance thereof The Flowers made into a Conserve worketh the same effect for Children and young People nothing is better to purge Choller and the Jaundice than the leaves and flowers of this Tree being made into a Syrup or Conserve two spoonfuls may be given at a time the liquor that droppeth from the tree being wounded is given in the Decoction of Coltsfoot to those that are troubled with the Cough or shortness of breath by adding thereto some sweet Wine and putting some Saffron also therein it helpeth all defects of the Lungs Two drachms thereof given in the Juice of Lemmons or of Radish is good for those that are troubled with the Stone An Excellent Receit Take 50 Kernels of Peach Stones and one hundred Kernels of Cherry Stones a handful of Elder Flowers fresh and dried and three pints of Muscadine set them in a closed pot into a Bed of Horse-dung fourteen dayes which after distill in Glass with a gentle fire and keep it for your use you may drink upon occasion 3 or 4 ounces at a time This Drink does wonderfully ease the pains and wringings of the Belly through wind or sharp humors The Milk or Cream of these Kernels being drawn forth with some Vervain water and applyed to the forehead and temples doth much help to procure rest and sleep to sick persons wanting it the Kernels of the Peach being bruised and boiled in Vinegar until they become thick and applyed to the head it will procure the hair to grow again upon bald places or where it is too thin The Tamarisk Tree THis Tree is not only a comely Ornament in a Garden but Cans and Cups made of the Timber of the Tree are very wholsome to drink out of Uses Physical The Bark boyled in Wine or Vinegar and drunk and applyed outwardly is very powerful against the hardness of the spleen The Leaves boyled in Wine and drunk is good to stay the bleeding of the Hemorrhoidal Veins the spitting Blood the Jaundice the Collick and the too much abounding of Womens Courses The Bark and Leaves boyled in Wine the mouth and teeth washed therewith helpeth the Tooth-ach and dropped into the ears easeth the pains The Wood is very effectual to consume the spleen and therefore to drink out of Cups and Cans made thereof is good for splenetick Persons and is available to help the Dropsie arising from the hardness and obstruction of the Spleen as also for the Melancholy and the black Jaundice that ariseth thereof The Ashes of the Wood doth quickly help the blisters raised by Burnings or Scaldings by fire or water The Figg-tree I Cannot say much to the use of our English Figs when they are ripe they are much eaten and there will be no loss of them because Poultry and Swine will thrive by feeding on them Uses Physical Figgs taken when they are young and green are very wholsome to eat either preserved or candied the Confectioners know better how to order them than I can inform The dried Figs fold at the Grocers are very Medicinal besides the common earing of them An Antidote against Poyson or Infection Take two Figs a couple of Walnuts 20 leaves of Rue 20 Juniper Berries and 2 or 3 Corns of Salt beat all these together into a Masse take about the quantity of a Hâ—zel Nut every Morning fasting and it will to admiration preserve your Body in health The Medlar-tree THe Fruit of this Tree is useful in House and vendible at Markets The Vses Physical The Medlar Stones made into Powder and drunk in Wine wherein some Parsly roots have lien infused all night or a little boyled do break the Stone in the Kidneys helping to expel it The Fruit eaten by Women with child stayeth their longings after unusual meats and is very effectual for them that are apt to miscarry to help that Malady and make them joyful Mothers The Decoction of them is good to gargle and wash the mouth throat and teeth when there is any defluxion of blood to stay it or of humors which causeth pains and swellings The dried Leaves in Powder strewed on fresh bleeding wounds restraineth the blood and healeth up the wounds quickly If a Plaster be made with dried Medlars beaten and mixed with the Juice of Red-Roses whereunto a few Cloves and Nutmeg may be added and a little red Corral also and applyed to the stomach that is given to casting or loathing of meat it effectually helpeth The Quince-tree THis Fruit is known by good experience to be very profitable in Housekeeping being Pickled Preserved or made into Marmelade or Conserves The Uses Physical The Muccilage taken from the Seeds of Quinces boyled a little in water is very good to cool the heat and heal the sore Breasts of Women The same with a little Sugar is good to lenifio the harshness and hoarsness of the Throat and roughness of the Tongue Quinces when they are green help all sorts of Fluxes in Man or Woman and Chollerick Lasks Castings c. The Crude Juice of Quinces is held a Preservative against the force of deadly Poison The Oile of Quinces or other Medicines that may be made thereof are very available to cool any hot Fluxes if the Belly or other parts be annointed therewith it likewise strengthneth the Stomach and Belly and the Sinews that are loosned by sharp humors falling on them and restraineth immoderate Sweatings The Cotton or Down of Quinces boyled to Plague sores healeth them up and laid as a Plaster made up with Wax it bringeth hair to them that are bald and keepeth it from falling if it be ready to shed The Syrup of the Juice or the Conserve are much of a binding quality being consumed by the fire if a little Vinegar be added it stirreth up the languishing Appetite and much conducible to the Stomach given to casting some Spices being added it comforteth and strengthneth the decayed and fainting Spirits and helpeth
Pains also stayeth the Belly and Stomach from casting and easeth the pains and windiness of the Mother Endive Vertues and Vse A Syrup of the herb is a fine cooling Medicine for Fevers The Seed is available for Faintings Swounings and Passions of the Heart The Decoction of the Leaves or the Juice or the Distilled Water serveth well to cool the excessive heat in the Liver and Stomach and in the hot Fits of Agues and all other Inflammations in any parts of the Body This is also a very good Pot-herb Elecampane Vertues and Vse THe Roots and Herb beaten or bruised and put into new Ale or Beer and daily drunk cleare strengthen and quicken the sight of the Eyes wonderfully The Decoction of the Roots in Wine or the Juice taken therein killeth and driveth forth all manner of Worms in the Belly Stomach and Maw The dryed Root made into Powder and mixed with Sugar and taken is very effectual to warm a cold and windy Stomach or the pricking therein and stitches in the Sides caused by the Spleen and to help the Cough Shortness of Breath and Wheesing in the Lungs The fresh Roots preserved with Sugar or made into a Syrup or Conserve serveth to the same purposes The Root chewed fastneth loose Teeth and helpeth to keep them from putrefaction The Decoction of the Roots in Wine being drunk is good for those that are Bursten Eye-bright Vertues and Vse THe Juice of Eye-bright tunned up with strong Beer that it may work together or the Powder of the dryed herb mixed with Sugar a little Mace and Fennel-seeds and drunk or eaten in Broth or the said Powder made into an Electuary with Sugar doâ—h powerfully help and restore the Sight decayed by Age The Juice or Distilled Water of Eye-bright taken inwardly in White-wine or Broth or dropped into the Eyes for divers dayes together helpeth all Infirmities of the Eyes that causeth dimness of sight also helpeth a weak Brain and Memory Feaverfew Vertues and Vse THe Decoction of the Herb made with some Sugar or Hony put thereto is used with good success to help the Cough and stuffing of the Chest by Cold as also to cleanse the Reins and Bladder and help to expel the Stone in them The Herb boyled in White-wine and drunk cleanseth the Womb and expelleth the After-birth A Syrup of the Herb worketh the same effect The Powder of the Herb taken in Wine with some Oximel purgeth both Choller and Flegm and is available for those that are Short-winded and are troubled with Melancholly and Heaviness or Sadness of the Spirits This Herb is chiefly used for the Diseases of the Mother applyed outwardly or a Decoction of the Flowers in Wine with a little Nutmeg or Mace put therein and drunk often in a day Fumitory Vertues ' and Vse THe Juice of Fumitory and Docks mingled together with Vinegar and the places gently washed or wet therewith cureth all sorts of Scabs Wheals or Pushes on any part of the Bodyâ— The Juice or Syrup thereof or the Decoction made in Whey by it self with some other purging or opening Herbs and Roots to cause it to work the better is very effectual for the Liver and Spleen opening the Obstructions thereof and clarifying the Blood from faltish chollerick and adust humors and after the purging doth strengthen all the inward parts it is good also against the Yellow-Jaundice and spendeth it by Urin which it procureth in aboundance The Distilled Water of the Herb is also of good effect in the former Diseases and conduceth much against the Plague and Pestilence being taken with good Treacle The Powder of the dried Herb given for some time together cureth Melancholly but the Seed is strongest in operation for all the former Diseases Fennel Vertues and Vse THis is a very good Pot-herb or for Sallets and of good use to boyl with Fish for it consumes the Flegmatick humor which Fish most plentifully afford and annoy the Body by and therefore it is a most fit Herb for that purpose Fennel is also very good for Bees and is much used in dressing Hives for Swarms The Distilled Water of the whole Herb or the Juice dropped into the Eyes cleanseth them from Mists and Films that hinder the sight The Leaves or Seed boyled in Barley Water and drunk is good for Nurses to encrease their Milk and make it more wholsome for the Child The Roots are of most use in Physick-Drinks and Broths that are taken to cleanse the Blood to open Obstructions of the Liver and provoke Urin and amend the ill colour in the Face The Seed and the Root helpeth the painful and windy swellings of the Spleen and the Yellow-jaundice as also the Gout and Cramps Germander Vertues and Vse THe Decoction thereof taken for some dayes together driveth away and cureth both Tertian and Quartan Agues It is also good against all Diseases of the Brain as continual Head-ach Falling-sickness Melancholly Drowsiness and Dulness of spirit Convulsions and Palsies The Juice of the Leaves dropped into the Ears killeth the Worms in them Gromel Vertues and Vse THe Seed being bruised and boyled in White-wine or in Broth or the like or the Powder of the Seed taken therein Two drachms of the Seed in Powder taken with Womens Breast Milk is very effectual to procure a speedy Delivery to such Women as have sore pains in their Travail and cannot be delivered The Herb when the Seed is not to be had either boiled or the Juice thereof drunk is effectual to all the purposes aforesaid but not so powerful or speedy in operation It is an Herb of singular force as any other to break the Stone and avoid it and the Graveleither in the Reins or Bladder Goutwort Vertues and Vse THe very bearing of this Herb about one easeth the pains of the Gout and defends him that bears it from the disease therefore had not his Name for nothing but upon good experience is known to help the Cold-Gout and Sciatica as also Joynt-aches aud other cold Griefs Groundsel Vertues and Vse THis Herb is moist and somewhat cold withall thereby causing expulsion and repressing the heat caused by the motion of the internal parts in Purges and Vomits and is as gallant an universal Medicine for all Diseases coming of heat as the Sun shines upon The Juice taken in Drink or the Decoction of the Herb in Wine or Ale helpeth the pains in the Stomach proceeding of Choller It is good against the Jaundice and Falling-sickness being taken in Wine A drachm of the Juice given in Oximel is good to provoke Urin expelleth Gravel in the Reins or Kidneys It helpeth also the Sciatica Griping of the Belly and Chollick helpeth the defects of the Liver The Juice of the Herb or the Leaves and Flowers with some fine Frankincense in Powder used in wounds of the Body Nerves and Sinews doth singularly help to heal them The Distilled Water of the Herb performeth well all the aforesaid Cures Hysop Vertues and Vse
HYsop boyled with Figs is an excellent Medicine for the Quinsie or swelling in the Throat to wash and gargle it The green Herb bruised and a little Sugar put thereto doth quickly heal any Cut or green Wound and being taken either in a Syrup or licking Medicine it helpeth to expectorate tough Flegm and is effectual in all cold Griefs or Diseases of the Chest and Lungs Hysop boyled with Rue and Honey and drunk helpeth those that are troubled with Coughs Shortness of Breath Wheesings and Rheumatick Distillations upon the Lungs Taken with Oximel it purgeth gross humors by the Stool It helpeth those that have the Falling-sickness which way soever it be applyed Hops Vertues and Vse THe Decoction of the tops of Hops open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen cleanseth the Blood loosens the Belly provokes Urin and cleanseth the Reins from Gravel A Syrup made of the Juice and Sugar cureth the yellow Jaundice easeth the Head-ach that comes of heat and tempereth the heat of the Liver and Stomach St. Johns wort Vertues and Vse THe Seed is much commended being drunk for forty dayes together to help the Sciatica the Falling-sickness and the Palsie The Decoction of the Herb and Flowers but of the Seed especially in Wine being drunk or the Seed made into Powder and drunk with the Juice of Knot-grass helpeth all manner of spitting and vomiting Blood be it by any Vein broken inwardly by bruises falls or howsoever the same helpeth those that are bitten or stung by any venemous Creature Two drachms of the Seed made into Powder and drunk in a little Broth doth gently expel Choller or congealed Blood in the Stomach Kidney-wort Vertues and Vse THe bruised Herb or the place bathed with the Juice or Distilled Water thereof healeth Pimples Redness the St. Anthonies Fire and other outward Heats and Inflammations The Juice or the Distilled Water being drunk is very effectual for all Inflammations and unnatural heats to cool a fainting hot Stomach or a hot Liver or the Bowels The said Water is available for the Dropsie and helpeth to break the Stone Liquoris Vertues and Vse THe Juice of Liquoris dissolved in Rose-water with some Gum Tragacanth is a fine licking Medicine for Hoarseness and Wheesings Liquoris boyled in fair Water with some Maiden-hair and Figs maketh a good Drink for those that have a dry Cough or Hoarseness Wheesings Shortness of Breath and for all Griefs of the Breast and Lungs Phthisick or Consumptions caused by the distillation of salt humors on them Lavender Vertues and Vse A Decoction made with the Flowers of Lavender Horehound Fennel and Asparagus Roots and a little Cinnamon is very profitably used to help the Falling-sickness and the giddiness or turning of the Brain to gargle the Mouth with the Decoction thereof is good against the Tooth-ach Two spoonfuls of the Distilled Water of the Flowers taken helpeth them that have lost their Voice as also the Tremblings and Passions of the Heart and Faintings and Swounings not only being drunk but applyed to the Temples or Nostrils to be smelt unto Lavender is of special good use for all the Griess of the Head and Bâ—ains that proceed of a cold cause Lettice Vertues and Vse THis is one of our good House-wifes Sallet-herbs but the use of them is forbiden to those that are short-winded or have any imperfection in their Lungs the best way of eating them is boyled The Juice of Lettice boyled with Oyl of Roses or mixed therewith and applyed to the Forehead and Temples procureth Sleep and easeth the Head-ach proceeding of an hot cause The Seed and Distilled Water of Lettice are as effectual as the Herb In all things Lettice being eaten helpeth Digestion loosens the Belly quenches Thirst encreases Milk in Nurses easeth griping Pains of the Stomach or Bowels that come of Choâ—ler Lovage Vertues and Vse THe Distilled Water of the Herb helpeth the Quinsie in the Throat and helpeth the Plurisie being drunk 3 or 4 times The Leaves bruised and fried with a little Hogs-Lard and laid hot to any Botch or Boil will quickly break it Half a drachm at a time of the dried Root in Powder taken in Wine doth wonderfully warm a cold stomach helping digestion and consuming all raw and superfluous moisture therein easeth all inward Gripings and Pains dissolveth Wind and resisteth Poison and Infection To drink the Decoction of the Herb is good for any sort of Ague Sweet-Marjerom Vertues and Vse THe Powder snuffed up into the Nose provoketh sneezing and thereby purgeth the Brain and chewed in the Mouth draweth forth much Flegm The Decoction of the Herb made with some Pellitory of Spain and Long Pepper or with a little of Acorus or Origanum being drunk is good for those that are beginning to fall into a Dropsie for those that cannot make water and against Pains and Torments in the Belly The Decoction of Marjerom being drunk helpeth all the Dâ—seases of the Chest which hinder the freeness of breathing and is also profitable for the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen It helpeth the cold Griefs of the Womb and the windiness thereof Mint Vertues and Vse THe Decoction of the Herb gargled in the Mouth cureth the Gums and Mouth that is sore as also with Rue and Coriander causeth the Pallat of the Mouth that is down to return to his place the Decoction being held and gargled in the mouth it also mendeth an ill-savoured Breath the Powder of Mint being dryed and taken after meat helpeth digestion and those that are splenetick taken with Wine helpeth Women in their sore travail in Child-bearing it is good against the Gravel and Stone in the Kidneys and the Strangury it is a safe Medicine for the biting of a Mad Dog the Herb being bruised with salt and laid thereon being smell'd unto it is comfortable for the head and Memory Marigolds Vertues and Vse A Plaister made with the dry Flowers in Powder Hogs-grease Turpentine and Rozin and applyed to the Breast strengthens and succours the Heart infinitely in all Fevers The Flowers either green or dried are used much in Possets Broths and Drinks as a Comforter of the heart and spirits and to expel any malignant or pestilential quality which might annoy them Mustard Vertues and Vse THe Seed taken either by it self or with other things either in an Electuary or Drink doth mightily stir up bodily Lust and helpeth the Spleen and Pains in the Sides and Gnawing in the Bowels and used as a Gargle draweth up the Pallat of the mouth being fallen down The Distilled Water of the Herb when it is in flower is much used to drink inwardly to help in any Diseases aforesaid but outwardly also for Scabs Itch or other like infirmities The Decoction of the Seed made in Wine and drunk provoketh Urin and resisteth the force of Poison We shall add an excellent Receit or Medicine for Old People or Weak Stomachs Take of Mustard-seed a drachm Cinnamon as much and having beaten
them to Powder and half as much Mastick in Powder and with Gum-Arabick dissolved in rose-Rose-water make it up in Troches of which take about half a drachm weight an hour or two before Meals Motherwort Vertues and Vse THere is no better Herb to strengthen and drive melancholly Vapours from the heart and make a merry chearful blith soul than this herb it may be kept in Syrup or Conserve the Powder thereof to the quantity of a spoonful drunk in Wine is a wonderful help to Women in their sore Travails as also for the suffocation of the Mother it also cleanseth the Chest of cold Flegm and is of good use to dry up the cold humors to digest and disperse them that are settled in the Veins Joynts and Sinews of the Body Sweet-Maudlin Vertues and Vse THis Herb taken in Whey or the Decoction purgeth Choller and Flegm openeth Obstructions and healeth their evil effects and is a wonderful help to all sâ—rts of Day-Agues It is astringent to the Stomach and strengthneth the Liver and all other inward parts taken fasting in the Morning it is very profitable for the pains in the head that are continual it is an especial friend and help to evil weak and cold Livers and very profitable for those that are fallen into a continual evil disposition of the whole Body called Cachexia Mallows Vertues and Vse THe Roots and Seeds hereof boyled in Wine or Water is good for those that have Excoriations in the Guts or the Bloody-flux also for them that are troubled with Ruptures Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews and boyled in White-wine for the Imposthumes of the Throat called the Kings-Evil and the Kernels that rise behind the Ears and Inflammations or Swellings in Womens Breasts The Juice of Mallows drunk in VVine or the Decoction of them therein doth help Vvomen to a speedy and easie Delivery and is special good for the Falling-sickness The Syrup and Conserve made of the Flowers are very effectual for the same Diseases and to open the Body being Costive the dried Roots boyled in Milk and drunk is special good for a Chine-cough The Marsh-Mallows are more effectual than the ordinary Onions Vertues and Vse TO eat Onions fasting with bread and salt hath been held with divers People a good Preservative against Infection being rosted under the Embers and eaten with sugar and Oyl or honey much conduce to help an inveterate Cough and expectorate the tough Flegm Orpine Vertues and Vse A Syrup made of the Juice with Honey and Sugar and a spoonful or two taken at a time is a speedy Cure for a Quinsie The Leaf bruised and laid to any green wound in the hands or legs doth heal them quickly and being bound to the throat helpeth the Quinsie it helpeth also Ruptures and Burstings The Distilled VVater of the Herb being drunk for certain dayes together is profitable for Gnawings or Excoriations in the Stomach or Bowels or for Ulcers in the Lungs Liver or other inward parts Parsnip Vertues and Vse THe Root is very useful in a Family being good and wholsome Nourishment and fatneth the Body much the Seed hereof being drunk cleanseth the Belly from tough Flegmatick matter therein easeth them that are Liver-grown and VVomens passions of the Mother The Seed and Root of the VVild or Cow-parsnip boyled in Oyl and the head rubbed therewith helpeth those that are fallen into a Frenzy also Lethargie or Drowsie evil and the Headach Parsly Vertues and Vse An excellent Receipt or Medicine to open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen and expel the Dropsie and Jaundice by Urin. TAke of the Seeds of Parsley Fennel Annise and Caraways of each an ounce of the Roots of Parsley Burnet Saxifrage and Carawayes of each an ounce and an half let the Seed be bruised and the Roots washed and cut small let them lie all night in steep in a Pottle of VVhite-wine and in the Morning be boyled in a close earthen Vessel until a third part or more be wasted which being strained and cleared take 4 ounces thereof Morning and Evening first and last abstaining from drink after it for three hours this is also good against the Falling-sickness and the Stone in the Kidneys The Distilled Water of Parsley is good to give Children when they are troubled with Wind in the Stomach or Belly Pennyroyal Vertues and Vse THe Herb boyled in Milk and drunk is very effectual for the Cough and for Ulcers or Sores in the Mouth the Decoction thereof being drunk helpeth the Jaundice and Dropsie and all Pains of the Head and Sinews that come of a Cold cause and helpeth to clear and quicken the Eye-sight Penny-royal and Mint together put in Vinegar and put to the Nostrils to be smell'd unto or a little thereof put into the Mouth helpeth Faintings and Swounings and being drunk in Wine it easeth the Headach and the Pains of the Breast and Belly stayeth the Gnawing of the Stomach and inward Pains of the Bowels Pellitory of the Wall Vertues and Vse THe Juice clarified and boyled into a Syrup with Honey and a spoonful of it drunk in a Morning once a week is a certain Cure for those that are subject to the Dropsie The Decoction of the Herb being drunk easeth pains of the Mother it also easeth those griefs that arise from Obstructions of the Liver Spleen and Reins the same Decoction with a little Honey added thereto is good to gargle a sore Throat The Juice held a while in the Mouth easeth the pains in the Teeth The dried Herb made up into an Electuaâ—y with Honey or the Juice of the Herb or the Decoction made up with Sugar or Honey is a singular Remedy for any old or dry Cough the Shortnes of Breath and Wheesing in the Trhoat A Poultis made of the Herb with Mallows and boyled in Wine with Wheat Bran and Bean-flower and some Oyl put thereto and applied warm to any bruised Sinew Tendon or Muscle doth in a very short time restore them to their strength The green herb bruised and bound to any green wound for three dayes you shall need no other Medicine to heal it further Pepper-wort Vertues and Vse THe Leaves bruised and mixed with old Hogs-grease and applyed to the place and to continue threon four hours in Men and two hours in Women the place being afterwards bathed with Wine and Oyl and then wrapped with Wool or Skins is very effectual for the Sciatica or any other Gout or pain in the Joynts Purslan Vertues and Vse THis is a very good Sallet Herb to cool any heat in the Liver and in hot Agues nothing better it also cooleth the Blood Reins and Stomach The Herb bruised and applyed to the Forehead and Temples allayeth excessive heat therein hindring rest and sleep The Juice is good to stay Vomitings and taken with Sugar or Honey helpeth an old and dry Cough Shortness of Breath and the Phtisick and stayeth immoderate Thirst The Seed is more effectual than the Herb to
all the purposes aforesaid and is good to cool the heat and sharpness of Urin The Distilled Water of the Herb is used by many as the more pleasing with a little Sugar to work the same effects Rubarb Vertues and Vse THe Powder of Rubarb taken with a little Mummia and Madder Roots in some Red-wine dissolveth clotted blood in the Body happening by any fall or bruise and healeth Burstings The Root steeped all night in White-wine and a draught drunk in a morning fasting or a drachm of the Powdeâ— of the dried Root being either taken of it self or with a scrupâ— of Ginger made into Powder in a Mess of Warm Broth or in a draught of White-wine purgeth Choller and Flegm downwards very gently and safely without danger cleanseth the Stomach Liver and Blood opening Obstructions helpeth those Griefs that come thereof as the Jaundice Dropsie swelling of the Spleen Tertian and Day Agues and the pricking pain of the Sides and also stayeth spitting of blood Rosemary Vertues and Vse THe dried Leaves shread small and taken in a Pipe as Tobacco is taken helpeth those that have any Cough or Phtisick or Consumption by warming and drying the thin Distillations which cause those diseases to burn the Herb in Chambers correcteth the air in them the Flowers and the Conserve made of them is singular good to comfort the heart and to expel the Contagion of the Pestilence the Decoction or Powder of Rosemary taken in Wine helpeth the cold Distillations of Rheum into the Eyes and all other cold Diseases of the Head and Brain as the Giddiness Drowsiness Dulness of the Mind and Senses dumb Palsie or loss of Speech and Falling-sickness to be both drunk and the Temples bathed therewith it is a Remedy for the Windiness in the Stomach or Bowels Wind in the Spleen helpeth those that are Liver-grown it helpeth a weak Memory quickneth the Senses helpeth dim Eyes and a stinking Breath it is very comfortable to the Stomach in all cold Griefs helping both retention of meat and digestion We shall here direct you to make a soveraign Oyl or Balm to heal the Diseases before mentioned Take what quantity you please of the Flowers and put them in a strong Glass tie a fine linnen cloth over the mouth and turn the mouth down into another strong Glass which being set in the Sun an Oyl will distill into the lower Glass this preserve as precious for divers uses to touch the Temples and Nostrils with two or three drops is the Dose allowed for the Diseases of the Head and Brains and a drop two or three as the cause requireth for the inward griefs Rue Vertues and Vse An Excellent Receipt or Antidote against Poison or Infection and to preserve the Body in health TAke twenty leaves of Rue a little Salt two Walnuts and two Figs all of them beaten together into a Mass with twenty Juniper Berries take every morning fasting the quantity of a Hazel Nut. We shall add another Receipt and it is a Remedy for the pains or griefs of the Chest or Stomach of the Spleen Belly or Sides by wind or stitches of the Liver obstructions of the Reins and Bladder by the stopping of Urin. Take of Nitre Pepper and Cummin-seed of each equal parts of Rue clean picked as in weight as all the other three First steep the Cummin-seed in Vinegar twenty four hours then dry it by the fire or in an Oven and then beat them well together and with Honey make it up into an Electuary this will also help to extenuate fat corpulent Bodies A Decoction made of Rue with some dried Dill leaves and flowers easeth all pains and torments inwardly to be drunk and outwardly to be applyed warm to the place grieved the same being drunk helpeth the pains both of Chest and Sides also Coughs hardness of breathing the Inflammations of the Lungs and the tormenting pains of the Sciatica and the Joynts being anointed or laid to the places as also the shaking Fits of Agues to take a draught before the Fit come Roses Vertues and Vse OF the Red Roses are made many Compositions all serving to sundry good uses the moist Conserve is both binding and Cordial for untill it be about two years old it is more binding than cordial and after that more cordial than binding The old Conserve mixed with Aromaticum Rosarum is a very good Cordial against Faintings Swounings Weakness and Trembling of the Heart strengthening both it and a weak Stomach helpeth Digestion stayeth casting and is a very good Preservative in the time of Infection some of the younger Conserve taken with Mithridatum mixed together is good for those that are troubled with Distillations of Rheum from the Brain to the Nose and defluxion of Rheum into the Eyes and being mixed with the Powder of Mastick is very good for the Running of the Reins and for other looseness of humors in the Body The dry Conserve or Sugar of Roses is a very good Cordial to strengthen the heart and spirits The Syrup of drie red Roses strengthens a Stomach given to casting cooleth an over-heated Liver comforteth the Heart and resisteth Putrefaction and Infection Red-rose Water is better than Damask being cooling and cordial refreshing and quickning weak and faint spirits and used either in meats or Broths Honey of Roses is good to gargle the Mouth and Throat to cleanse and heal them the Cordial Powder called Diarrhodon Abbatis and Aromaticum Rosarum doth comfort and strengthen the Heart and Stomach procures an Appetite helps Digestion and stayeth Vomiting Vinegar of Roses is of much good use and to procure rest and sleep if some thereof and Rose-water together be used to smell unto but more usually to moisten a piece of Red-rose Cake cut fit for the purpose and heated between a double folded Cloth with a little beaten Nutmeg and Poppy-seed strewed on the side that must lie next to the forhead and temples and so bound to for all night The Syrup of Damask Roses is both simple and compound the simple solutive Syrup is a familiar safe gentle and easie Medicine purging Choller taken from one ounce to three or four The Syrup with Agatick or the compound Syrup is more forcible in working for one ounce thereof by it self will open the body more than the other and worketh as much on Flegm as Choller Rupture-wort Vertues and Vse THe Juice or Distilled Water of the green Herb taken in Wine and drunk helpeth all Fluxes Vomitings Running of the Reins the Strangury Stone or Gravel in the Reins or Bladder also Stitches in the Side all griping pains in the Stomach or Belly the Obstructions of the Liver and the Yellow-Jaundice A drachm of the Powder of the dried Herb taken in Wine every day for certain dayes together is effectual for all the Diseases aforesaid and is found by experience to be an excellent and speedy Cure for the Rupture Sage Vertues and Vse THe Juice of Sage drunk with Vinegar is very good against