marks of bruises stripes or wounds the Morphew also Sun-burning or any the like Pilewort doth wonderfully help the Piles or Hemorrhoides as also kernels by the ears and throat called the Kings-evil or any other hard wens or tumours either the Decoction of the leaves and roots or an ointment made of them with Hogs grease or fresh Butter and used A Poultis against Cancrous sores of Womens breasts Take of the juice of Celandine and Goos-dung of each a like quantitie mix them together and apply it An Injection good in the cure of hollow wounds Take of Celandine Sage Saint Johns Wort of each half a hand ful Elecampane root four ounces Vineger a pint Water six pints boyl them till near half be consumed add thereto of Honie a pound Aloes in fine powder foure ounces let them boyle gently a while then keep it for your use Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Juice Salt CHAP. 8. Of Chervill The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Cerefolium Cerifolium and Chaerifolium in English Chervil and Chervel It is of a temperate heat and moderate drinesse The inward Vse It doth moderately warm the stomach and it is a certain remedy saith Tragus to dissolve congealed or clotted blood in the body after fals or bruises if the juice or the distilled water thereof be drunk it is taken also by divers to be good to provoke urine and to expel the stone in the kidneyes and Womens Courses taken either in meat or drink and moreover to help the Pleurisie and prickings of the. The round tufts or heads which contain the seeds do far excel the leaves and may be eaten as a sallad by themselves with Oyle Olive Vineger and Pepper for they are very good for a cold and weak stomach The roots boyled and eaten as before with Oyle Vinegar and pepper are good for a weak stomach for weak and aged persons and for such as are dull and without courage for they delight the stomach comfort the heart increase strength and stir up Venus or Lust A Decoction of Chervil taken provoketh sleep sweetly The outward Vse Being bruised and applied it dissolveth any tumours or swellings in any part of the body as also to take away the spots and marks in the flesh and skin of congealed blood by bruises or blowes in a short space and also easeth the Collick and pain of the belly Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Salt of Chervil CHAP. 9. Of Clarie The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Horminum and Orminum in English Clary or Cleere eye It is hot and drie in the third Degree The inward Vse The Seeds or the Leaves boyled in Wine and taken provoketh to Venery It is much in use with Men or Women that have weak backs to help to strengthen the Reins either used by it self or with other Herbs that conduce to the same effect and in Tansies often or the fresh Leaves fried in Butter being first dipped in a batter of Flower Eggs and a little Milke served as a dish to the Table is not unpleasant to any but exceeding profitable for weak backs It provoketh Womens Courses and bringeth away the after Birth It is used in Italy to help Barrennesse when it proceeds from a cold and moist Disposition it stayeth the Whites and helpeth also a cold stomach oppressed with cold Flegme purgeth the Head of Rheume and much corruption The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse The Seeds made in fine Powder put into the eye Eye alone or mixed with Honey and so used cleareth the Sight and taketh away white or red spots therein The Muscilage of the Seed made with VVater and applied to tumours or swellings disperseth and taketh them away and also draweth forth splinters thorns or other things gotten into the flesh the Leaves used with Vinegar either by it self or with a little Hony doth help hot inflammations if timely applied The powder of the dried Leaves put into the Nose provoketh sneesing and thereby purgeth the Head and Brain of much Rheume and Corruption The hurtful qualitie The frequent use of Clary offendeth the head and is hurtful for the brain and memorie Clownes Wound-wort or All-heale See my Help for the Poor page 10.11 12 13 14. CHAP. 10. Of Clove gillowflowers The Names and Temperament THey are called in Latin Caryophilli in English Clovegillow-flowers They are temperate in heat and drinesse The Duration They will keep good a year being well dried The inward Vse They are very Cordial and much in use in Feavers both pestilential and others in faintnesse of the heart and spirits The syrupe is of the same Nature The Flowers being pickled with Vinegar and Sugar are a pleasant and dainty sauce stir up the Appetite and are also of a Cordial facultie The outward Vse They are used in wounds of the Head they draw out pieces of bones the Skul being broken ease the Head-ache and pain of the Teeth being thereto applied The Medicines made thereof Syrupe Conserve Vinegar CHAP. 11. Of Colts-foot The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Tussilago and Tarfara in English Colts-foot Hors-foot and Fole-foot Being fresh it is cooling and drying but when it is drie it is somewhat hot and drie The Duration The Leaves and Flowers being dry will keep good a year The inward Vse The drie Leaves are best for such as have thinne Rheumes and Distillations upon the Lungs causing the Cough thereby to thicken and drie it The fresh Leaves or Juice or Syrupe made thereof is fittest for an hot dry Cough and for wheesing and shortnesse of breath the dried Leaves taken as Tobacco is in the like manner good for the thinne Rheumes Distillations and Coughs as also the Root taken in like sort The distilled Water hereof simply or with Elder Flowers and Nightshade is a singular remedie against all hot Agues to drink two ounces at a time The outward Vse The distilled Water simply or with Elder Flowers and Nightshade helpeth the pains of the head proceeding from heat if Clothes be wet therein and applied thereto The same also applied to any hot swelling or inflammation doth much good yea it helpeth Saint Anthonies fire and burning also and is singular good to take away wheales and small pushes that rise through heat as also against the burning heat of the Piles or of the privie parts to apply wet clothes therein to the places The fume of the dried Leaves or Roots taken through a Tunnel burned upon coals effectually helpeth those that are troubled with shortnesse of breath and fetch their wind thick and often and breaketh the Apostumes of the breast Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrupe both Simple and Compound Conserve made of the Flowers CHAP. 12. Of Coriander-seed The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Semen Coriandri in English Coriander and Coliander-seed It is hot and dry in the
first or second Degree The Duration They will keep good two or three years The inward Vse These Seeds being taken in VVine killeth VVorms increaseth Blood and Sperme It is also good against the Serpent called Amphisbaena It is comfortable to the Stomach by heating and drying the cold and moisture thereof helpeth the Digestion and expresseth the Vapours therein that rise upwards and resisteth forcible pains of the VVind Collick and the stopping of Urine They are very convenient for cold Phlegmatick and Rheumatick bodies Coriander Comfits taken after meat closeth up the mouth of the stomach stayeth vomiting and helpeth digestion These Seeds must be prepared before they are used which is done by steeping them all night and a day in wine Vinegar and then dry them and keep them for your use The hurtfull Qualitie They are counted hurtful for such as have the Head-ache Falling-sicknesse and swimming of the Head Of such things as are made thereof Coriander Comfits Chymical Oyle CHAP. 13. Of Cowslips The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Herba Paralysis in English Cowslip They are moderately drie and a little hot The Duration They will keep good a year The inward Vse They are used in the Apoplexie Palsie and such like diseases of the head in arthritical Pains Gouts and Convulsions The roots made into a Decoction and taken easeth the pains of the back and bladder opening the passages of Urine which was the cause thereof The juice of the leaves is good for such as have their inward parts hurt rent or broken The conserve of Cowslip is profitable in the Palsey Apoplexie weaknesse of the Joynts c. The outward Vse The juice of the Flowers or the distilled water is used to cleanse the skin from spots or discolourings therein as also to take away the wrinckles thereof and cause the skin to become smooth and fair The Flowers or Leaves bruised and applied helpeth the joynt-gout and swellings that arise from the stinging of venemous creatures An Ointment or Oyle made with the juice of Cowslips and Linseed Oyle cureth burnings and scaldings Of such things as are made thereof Conserve of Cowslip The distilled Water Syrupe Oyle by infusion Vineger CHAP. 14. Of Cummin-seed The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Caminum and Cyminum in English Cummin-seed It is hot and drie in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good two or three years The inward Vse Cummin-seed dissolveth wind in the body and easeth the pains of the Collick being boyled in Wine and drunk and is used as a correctour of any windie meats it helpeth also those that are bitten by Serpents taken in the same manner The same taken in Beere or Posset drink is good for those that are short winded or are otherwise troubled with an old cough or the disease of the breast to boyle the same with Figs in Wine It is very useful in the Dropsie called Tympanie and in giddinesse of the head The outward Vse Being boyled in Wine and so made into a Poultis it taketh the swellings of the Codds by wind or a waterish humour if it be applied thereto with Barley meale It helpeth also other cold pains and swellings being thus applied It stoppeth bleeding of the nose being mixed with Vinegar and smelt to and boyled in Water and the lower parts bathed therewith stayeth the bounding Courses of Women Cummin-seed bruised and fried with an hard Egg and laid to the nod of the neck easeth an old head-ache and stayeth the rheume that falleth into the eyes or are blood-shotten or else the powder mixed with wax into the form of a Plaster and applied warm to the eyes will soon help it and take it away Being applied to the belly with Wine and Barley meale boyled together to the form of a Poultis it easeth the gripings and torments of the belly Being quilted in a little bag with a smal quantitie of Bay salt and made hot upon a Bed-pan with fire or such like and sprinkled with good Wine Vinegar and applied to the side very hot it taketh away the stitch and pains thereof and easeth the Pleurisie The hurtfull qualitie It must not be used in very hot dry and chollerick bodies If it be much used either inwardly or outwardly it is said to make the party look pale Of such medicines as are made thereof The Species Diacuminu Chymical Oyle CHAP. 15. Of Devils-bit The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Morsus Diaboli and Succisa in English Devils-bit and Forebit It is hot and dry in the second Degree The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward Vse It is very profitable against the Plague and all Pestilential diseases or poysons and the bitings of venemous beasts the hearb or root being boyled in Wine and drunk the same also helps those that are inwardly bruised by any fal or crusht by any casualtie dissolving the clotted or congeald blood and voyding it by stool or otherwise The Decoction of the Hearb wherein some Hony of Roses is put is very effectual to help inveterate tumours and swellings of the Almonds and throat which do hardly come to ripenesse for it digesteth cleanseth and consumeth the flegme sticking thereto It helpeth also to procure womens Courses and to ease all pains of the Mother to break winds therein and in the bowels The powder of the root taken in Beere or Posset drink driveth forth VVorms in the body It is useful in the Falling-sicknesse French Poxe and inward wounds The distilled water is effectual for the aforesaid diseases The manner of administering it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse The Hearb or Root bruised and applyed taketh away the black and blew marks after bruises and such like A decoction of the Hearb with some Hony of Roses mixed therein helpeth tumour and swellings of the throat and Almonds if the mouth and throat be often gargled or washed therewith The juice or distilled water of the Hearb is as effectual for green wounds and old sores as the Scabiouses be and cleanseth the head from scurffe and sores and the skin from itches pimples freckles Morphew or other deformities thereof but especially if a little Vitriol be dissolved therein The Dose It is given in Powder from half a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water The Juice CHAP. 16. Of Dropwort The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Filipendula and Philipendula in English Philipendula and Dropwort It is hot and drie in the third Degree opening and cleansing yet a little binding It is called Dropwort because it helpeth such as have their Urine stopt and pisse by drops The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward Vse It is very effectual to provoke Urine as also to help the Strangurie and all other pains of the Bladder and Reins helping mightily to break and expel the Stone either in the Kidneyes or Bladder and also to bring away the gravel
stamped with hony gleweth together sinewes that be cut in sunder consumeth or scoureth away the Vlcers of the head called Achores and likewise all scurvinesse of the beard and face and is good to be laid to all dislocations or places out of joynt The same stamped with Vinegar the leaves of Henbane or the meale of Barley cureth the Tumours and Apostumes of the privie members it bringeth the hair again upon places that have been burned or scalded if it be mingled with oyle or grease and the place anointed therewith the same rosted in Embers and stamped with leaven of Rie bread and Hogs-grease breaketh pestilential botches and ripeneth Apostumes in the flanks coming of Venery and such like the same mixed with oyle of Roses cureth wilde-fire burnings and closeth up wounds and ulcers and is good also to be laid upon the biting of Serpents The same boyled in Vinegar and applied cureth corns To breake a Felon Take of Sorrel Marsh Marigold of each half a handful white Lilie root a dram bruise them and roast them in Embers in a Dock leaf bind it on hot to the places affected The oyle made of the Flowers is good to supple mollifie and digest excellent to soften the sinewes and to cure the hardnesse of the Matrix The distilled water mixed with Camphor and oyle of Tarter is used to beautifie the face Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve Oyle both simple and compound CHAP. 24. Of Lilly Coural The Names and Temperament IT is called Lilium Courallium in English Lilly Coural Lilly of the Valley May Lilly and Liricon fancie They are hot and dry of complexion The inward Vse The Flowers distilled in wine and drunk the quantitie of a spoonful restoreth speech to those that have the dumb Palsie or Apoplexy and is good against the gout and comforteth the heart it is very profitable in the swimming of the head Palsie and all cold diseases of the head The outward Vse The distilled water thereof helpeth the inflammation of the eyes being dropped therein The powder thereof being blown up into the nose is a good Errhine and doth draw away cold humors from the brain The flowers put into a glasse and set in a hill of Ants close stopped for the space of a moneth and then taken out therein you shall find a liquor that easeth the pain of the Gout and helpeth the Serpigo or Titter. Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water both simple and compound Spirit Conserve Oyle Chymical and by infusion CHAP. 25. Of Liverwort The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Lichen Hepatica and Jecoraria and that either because it healeth the Lichen Tetters which deform the skin and make it rough or from helping the diseases of the Liver It is cold and dry and somewhat binding The inward Vse It is singular good for all the diseases of the Liver both to cool and cleanse it and helpeth also inflammations in any part and the yellow Jaundise likewise Liverwort being bruised and boyled in small Beere and drunk cooleth the heat of the Liver and Kidneyes and helps the running of the reins in Men and the whites in Women It is good in the hectick Feaver and all other hot Feavers as also in the Scab Tetter and all other running sores If it be boyled in Posset drink and taken it helpeth bleeding at the Nose The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It stoppeth the bleeding of wounds being applied and is also a singular remedy to stay the spreading of Tetters or Ringworms and other fretting sores and scabs Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 26. Of Mouseare The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Pilosella and Auricula muris in English Mouseare It is hot and dry and of a cleansing binding and consolidating quality The inward Vse The Juice hereof taken in Wine or the Decoction thereof drunk doth help the Jaundies although of long continuance to drink thereof morning and Evening and abstaining from other drink two or three houres after it is often used as a special remedy against the stone and other pains of the bowels The Decoction thereof with Succory and Centory is held very effectual to help the Dropsie and them that are inclining thereto and the diseases of the Spleen It stayeth the Fluxes of blood either at the mouth or nose and inward bleedings also for it is a singular wound herb It helpeth the bloody Flix and stayeth the abundance of womens Courses The Juice or Decoction of the herb taken before the fit of a Quartane Ague is said to keep back or much to lessen the fit and by the use of it to take it quite away It is good for Ruptures or burstings The distilled water thereof is available in all the diseases aforesaid The syrupe made thereof is useful for such as are troubled with the Cough and Consumption as also for inward bleedings and Ruptures The manner of Administering it It is given in Juice Decoction or Powder The outward Vse The green herb bruised and presently bound to any fresh cut or wound doth quickly sodder the lips thereof and the Juice Decoction or Powder of the dried herb is most singular to stay the malignitie of spreading or fretting Cankers or Vlcers Wheresoever as well those in the mouth as secret parts of Men and Women The distilled water is good to wash wounds and sores and to apply Tents or clothes wet therein The Powder of the drie herb stayeth bleeding at the nose being put therein It is said to be so powerful to harden iron or steele that if any edged or pointed tool shall be often quenched in the juice thereof it will cut all other iron or steel or stone very easily without turning edge or point The Dose It is given in powder from half a dram to a dram in juice from one spoonful to two Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water The Syrupe CHAP. 27. Of Nep. The Names and Temperament IT is called Nepeta Herba Cattania and Herba Catti and that because Cats delight both to smel and eat thereof and gladly rub themselves against it It is hot and drie in the third Degree and of thinne parts The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward Vse It is used to procure Womens Courses it warmeth and comforteth the coldnesse and drieth the over-much moisture of the mother which may be the cause of barrennesse and by the frequent use of it may cause women to be more fruitful It is also good for the wind and pains of the mother or rising of it It is used in pains of the head that come from any cold cause as Catarrhes and thinne Rheumes and for giddinesse thereof and for winds in the stomach and belly also for cramps or cold aches to dissolve the cold and winde that affecteth the place and to bring warmth and comfort thereunto afterwards
distilled Water is useful for the aforesaid diseases The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It healeth all wounds and stayeth bleedings and used with some honey healeth all old Vlcers and Fistulaes in the legs or other parts of the body and also Vlcers of the mouth or used with Hogs grease it helpeth the swellings and paines of the secret parts of Man or Woman as also the Piles or Hemorrhoids Applied with some Oyle of Roses and Vinegar unto the forehead and Temples it helpeth to ease the old pains of the head and is good for those that are fallen into a Frensy The leaves bruised or the juice of them mixed with some Vinegar doth cleanse the skin and taketh away all Morphew Freckles pustulaes or the like inflammations and deformities of the skin in any part of the body The leaves bruised with Oyle of Roses and Vinegar or the Decoction of it made in Oyle of Roses keepeth the haires from falling being bathed or anointed therewith The Decoction of the leaves and roots helpeth the tooth-ache The leaves bruised and boyled in Hogs grease helpeth the Quinsie swelling of the throat and the Gout being applied warm The distilled water of the herb when it is in his full strength dropped into the eyes cleanseth them from films clouds or mist that darkens the sight and comforteth the Optick nerves and it good also to heal old sores or green wounds Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Oyntment CHAP. 53. Of Violets The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Viola and Viola martia in English Violet The garden and field Violets are cold and moist The Duration It will keep good a yeare The inward Vse Violets are used to cool any heat or distemperature of the body inflammations in the eyes in the mother or in the Fundament when they are fallen down and are full of pain Impostumes also and hot swellings to drink the Decoction of the leaves or flowers made with wine or water it likewise easeth pains in the head caused through want of rest A dram of the dried leaves of the flowers of Violets doth purge the body of Chollerick humours and asswageth the heat being taken in a draught of wine or other drink The powder of the purple leaves of the flowers onely pickt and dried and drunk in powder with water is said to help the Quinsie and the Falling-sicknesse in children especially in the beginning of the disease The seed being taken resisteth the force of the Scorpion The herb or flowers while they are fresh or the flowers when they are dry are effectual in the Pleurisie and all other diseases of the Lungs to lenifie the sharpnesse of hot Rheumes and the hoarsnesse of the throat the heat also of the Urine and the sharpnesse thereof and all pains of the back or reins or bladder It is good also for the Liver and the Jaundise and in all hot Agues helping to cool the heat and quench thirst but the Syrupe of Violets is of most use and of better effect being taken in some convenient liquor and if a little of the juice or Syrupe of Lemons be put to it or a few drops of the oyle of Vitriol it is made thereby the more powerful to cool the heat and to quench the thirst and besides the effect giveth to the drink a Claretwine colour and a fine tart rellish pleasing to the tast Violets taken or made up with Honey doth more cleanse then coole and with Sugar contrariwise The dried flowers of Violets are accounted among the Cordial flowers and are used in Cordials drinks Powders and other medicines especially where cooling Cordials as Roses and Sanders are used The manner of Administring it It is used in Decoction Syrupe Powder c. The outward Vse Being outwardly applied they mitigate all kind of hot inflammations in the eyes in the mother or in the Fundament when they are fallen down and full of pain Impostumes also and hot swellings mixed with Oyle of Roses and applied it easeth pains in the head which are caused through want of sleep or in any other place arising of heat The green leaves are alwayes used with other herbs to make Poultisses for inflammations or swellings and to ease pains wheresoever arising of heat and for the Piles also being fried with yolks of Egs and applied thereto The oyle of Violets is good for the foresaid purposes Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrupe both simple and compound Julep of Violets Trochisces Conserve Tincture Vinegar of Violets Extract Oyle CHAP. 53. Of Water Cresses The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Nasturtium aquaticum in English Water Cresses They are hot and drie in the second Degree The inward Vse Water Cresses are good against the Scurvie and to cleanse the blood and humours and for all the other uses whereunto Brooklime is before said to be available as to break the stone provoke urine and Womens Courses and is very useful in the Green sicknesse It is very usual in the Spring to make Pottage thereof which is very wholsome and cleanseth the blood and grosse humours It is profitable in stoppings of the Liver and Spleene and in the Dropsie The outward Vse The Decoction thereof is said to be good to wash foul and filthy ulcers thereby to cleanse them and make them the fitter to heale The leaves or the juice is good to be applied to the face or other parts troubled with freckles pimples spots or the like at night and taken away or washed away in the morning The juice mixed with Vinegar and the fore part of the head bathed therewith is very good for those that are dull and drowsie or have the Lethargy Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water The Spirit CHAP. 54. Of Wood Sage The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Salvia agrestis in English Wood Sage Wilde Sage and Garlick Sage It is hot and dry in the second Degree The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse The Decoction thereof is good to be given to those whose urine is stayed for it provoketh it and Womens Courses also It is thought to be good against the French poxe because the Decoction thereof drunk doth provoke sweat digesteth humours and dissolveth swellings and nodes in the flesh The Decoction of the hearb rather green then day made with wine and taken is accounted a safe and sure remedy for those who by fals bruises or beatings doubt some vein to be inwardly broken to disperse and avoid the congealed blood and to close up the Vein and is also good for such as are inwardly bursten the same also is good for the Palsie The outward Vse Being bruised and applied in manner of a Poultis it helpeth burstings The juice of the herb or the powder thereof dried is good for moist ulcers and sores in the legs or other parts to dry them and thereby
bruised and laid upon the crown or seam of the head stayeth bleeding at the nose very quickly The leavs being gently rubd on any stung with netles or bees or any venemous Creature doth presently take away the pain The distilled water of the herb is good for the purposes aforesaid Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water The Juice Syrupe CHAP. 21. Of Hysope The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Hyssopus and Hyssopum in English Hysope and Hyssope It is hot and drie in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good a year being dried The inward Vse Hysope boyled with Rue and Hony and drunk doth help those that are troubled with Coughs shortnesse of breath wheesing and Rheumatick distillations upon the Lungs taken also with Orymel or water and honey it purgeth grosse humours by the stool and with honey killeth worms in the belly It amendeth the native colour of the body spoyled by the yellow Jaundise helpeth the Dropsie and the Spleen if it be taken with Figs and Nitar It is good in the Falling-sicknesse provokes Vrine expels wind and brings down Womens Courses and easeth the sharp fits of Agues The distilled water is good for the same diseases but doth not work so effectually as the Decoction The syrupe also hath the same vertue The manner of administering it It is given in Pils Decoction and in Electuaries Pils against the Falling-sicknesse Take of Hysope Horehound and Castoreum of each half a dram of the Root of Male Peony two drams of Assa-fetida one scruple with the juice of Hysope make Pils and take two or three of them every night so long as they last A Decoction good against the Cough and tough Flegme Take of Hysope one handful Figs two Ounces Sugar-candie one Ounce boyl them in a quart of Muscadine until half a pint be consumed strain it and drink a small draught thereof morning and evening The outward Vse It taketh away black and blew spots and marks that come by strokes bruises or fals being boyled and the places bathed therewith It is an excellent Medicine for the Quinsie to wash and gargle the throat being boyled with Figs it helpeth the Tooth-ache being boyled in Vinegar and gargled therewith the hot vapours of the Decoction taken by a Funnel in at the Eares easeth the inflammations of them Mesue saith the singing noyse of them being bruised and Salt Honey and Cummin-seed put to it helpeth those that are stung by Serpents The green Herbs bruised any a little Sugar put to it doth quickly heal any green wound or cut in the hand or else where The Oyl thereof being anointed killeth Lice and taketh away the itching of the head The hurtfull Qualitie Hot and drie bodies must be sparing in the use of it Plinie saith it is an enemy to the stomach and provoketh casting it is best in the Spring and Winter and that for aged and Flegmatick persons and all such as abound with cold and rheumatick humours Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Conserve of the Flowers Species Diahyssopu Syrupe both Simple and Compound Oyle CHAP. 22. Of Knotgrasse The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Polygonum and Ceutumnodia from the many joynts or knots that every branch hath It is cold in the second or third Degree of a binding Nature The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse The Juice or Decoction thereof is most effectual to stay any bleeding at the mouth and to cool and temper the heat of the blood or of the stomach and to stay any flux of the blood or humours either of the belly or womb as Courses in Women or the running of the Reins also The juice given before the Tertian or Quartane Ague comes is said to drive it away it is also good to provoke Urine when it is stopped as also when it passeth away by drops and with pain and when it is hot and sharp also to take a dram of the Powder of the Herb in wine for many dayes together being boyled in Wine and drunk it helpeth those that are stung or bitten by venemous Creatures and the same is very effectual to stay all falling down of humours rheumatick upon the stomach and killeth Worms in the belly or stomach and easeth all inward pains that arise from heat sharpnesse and corruption of blood and choller and is good for inward wounds The distilled water taken by it self or with the powder of the herb or seed is very effectual to all the purposes aforesaid The manner of Administring it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse The juice hereof stayeth the bleeding of the nose being applied to the forehead and temples or to be squirted up into the nose the same cooleth all manner of inflammations even Saint Anthonies fire or any other breaking forth of heat all hot swellings and impostumations all eating and sweating or burning sores and fistulous Cancers or foul filthie Vlcers being applied or put into them but especially for all sorts of Vlcers and sores in the privie parts of Men or Women restraining the humours from falling to them and cooling and drying up the hot and moist inflammations that are apt to to follow such sores in such places It keepeth all fresh and green wounds by restraining the blood and quickly closeth up the lips of them the juice dropped into the ears helpeth them wonderfully although they are foul and have running matter in them It helpeth also the inflammation of the eyes being put therein The Dose The Dose in Powder is from half a dram to a dram Of such medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 23. Of White Lilly The Names and Temperament It is called in Latine Lilium Album and Rosa Junonis in English White Lilly The Leaves or Flowers are hot and moist and partly of a subtile substance the root is drie in the first Degree and hot in the second The inward Vse The Roots boyled in honied water and drunk driveth forth by the siege all corruption of blood as Plinie saith The seeds are good to be taken against the biting of Serpents and expelleth the poyson of the Pestilence causing it to break forth in blisters in the outward part of the skin being taken in VVine or the roots stamped and strained with wine and given to drinke for two or three dayes together The juice tempered with Barley meale and baked in cakes and so eaten ordinarily for a moneth or sixe weeks together with meat and no other bread during that time is said to cure the Dropsie The distilled water being taken is said to cause easie and speedy deliverance and to expel the after Birth The same water is used in diseases of the Lungs shortnesse of Breath the Cough c. The outward Vse The Root rosted and well mixed with Oyle of Roses doth soften the hardnesse of the Matrix and provoketh the Courses in Women being laid thereupon The same
It is used for colds and coughs and shortnesse of breath The juice thereof drunk in Wine is profitable for those that are bruised The manner of Administring It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse A bath made thereof and used or to sit over the hot Fumes doth help to bring down womens Courses help barrennesse and warm those parts The green herb bruised and applied to the Fundament there abiding for two or three houres easeth the sharp pains of the piles the juice also is effectual for the same purpose being made up into an Ointment and applied A Decoction thereof is commended to wash the head to take away the scabs thereof and may be effectual for other parts of the body also CHAP. 28. Of Onions The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Cepa in English Onions They are hot and drie in the fourth Degree The inward Vse Onions provoke the appetite ease the pains of the belly provoke urine and womens Courses help the biting of a mad Dog and of other venemous creatures to be used with a little Honey and Rue and increase Sperme especially the seed They also kill the worms in children if they drink the water fasting wherein they have been steeped all night being rosted under the Embers and eaten with Honey and Sugar and Oyle they help an old Cough by cutting the tough Flegme and causing it to be easily spit forth It is counted by many a good preservative against infection to eat Onions fasting with bread and salt Onions sliced and dipped in the juice of Sorrel and given to one sick of a Tertian Ague to eat taketh away the fit in once or twise so taking them The manner of Administering them The best way to use them is to boyl them and so to eat them with Butter Vinegar and Pepper or to lay them a steep some time in water and so to eat them The outward Vse The juice snuffed up into the nostrils purgeth the head and helpeth the Lethargie and is good also for scalding or burning by fire water or gunpowder and used with Vinegar taketh away all blemishes spots and marks in the skinne and dropped into the eares easeth the pains and noise in them applyed also with Figs beaten together helpeth to ripen and break Impostumes and other sores especially being first rosted in Embers stamped with Salt Rue and Hony and so applied they are good against the biting of a mad Dog The juice of Onions mixed with the Decoction of Pennirial and a cloth wet therein and applied easeth the Gout Some take a great Onion and being made hollow they fill the place with good Treacle and then roast it well under Embers after which let the outermost skins be taken away and being well beaten and applied to any Plague sore or putrid ulcer they say it is a soveraign Medicine The juice mixed with Hony and a bald head anointed therewith causeth the hair to grow again They provoke the Hemorrhoides being laid unto them either by themselves or stamped with Vinegar They help Kibes being roasted and applied with butter or hogs-grease The hurtful qualitie Being too often or immoderately eaten raw they breed ill and corrupt humours in the stomach inflame the blood increase thirst cause drowsinesse and the head-ache hurt the sight dull and disturb the memorie and understanding They are hurtful to young men and chollerick persons They are flatulent or windie CHAP. 29. Of Osmund royal The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Osmunda regalis of the singular properties therein also Filix aquatica in English Osmund royal Osmund the waterman water Fern and Zut Christophers herb The root is hot and drie The Duration The root will keep good two or three years The inward Vse The Decoction of the leaves or roots drunk is useful for Ruptures or burstings as also for such as have falled or bruised themselves or have any inward wound and giveth ease to the Collick and splenetick diseases The powder hath the sams vertue and is excellent for such as cannot hold their water The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or powder The outward Vse It is singular in wounds bruises broken bones Ruptures or burstings boyled into an Ointment or Oyle as a Balsame or Balme or boyled in astringent wine and so applied in manner of a Poultis The Dose The Dose of the root in powder is from half a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water of the leaves Syrupe CHAP. 30. Of Parsley The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Petroselinum in English Parsley or garden Parsley It is hot and dry in the second Degree the seed hot in the second Degree and drie almost in the third the root is also of a moderate heat The inward Vse It is much used in meats and brothes in all Countries and doth help to provoke Urine and Womens Courses and to break wind both in the stomach and bowels and doth a little open the body but the root much more and openeth the stoppings of both Liver and Spleen and is profitable for the yellow Jaundise and Dropsie Galen commendeth it against the Falling-sicknesse and to provoke Urine mightily especially if the roots be boyled and eaten with Parsneps The seed is held by most to be most effectual yet some do think the root to be strongest but the seed is effectual to provok Vrine and Womens Courses to expel winds to breake the stone and to ease the pains and torments thereof or of any other part in the stomach and body procured by wind and also is effectual against venome and is put therefore into counterpoysons for that purpose as also against the danger that cometh to them that have taken Litharge it is also used among other things that serve for the Cough The seeds boyled in white wine and taken help to bring away the Birth and after Birth The distilled water of the herb is much used by Nurses for Children against wind and gripings in the belly or stomach The manner of administering it It is chiefly used in Decoction A Decoction against the Jaundise Dropsie Falling-sicknesse Stone in the Reins Take of Parsly seeds Fennel Aniseed and Carrawayes of each an Ounce of the roots of Parsly Burnet Saxi frage and Carrawayes of each one Ounce and a half let the seeds be bruised and the roots washed and cut small let them all be steeped in a pottle of white wine one night and in the morning boyled in a close earthen vessel until a third part or more be wasted which being strained and cleared take foure Ounces thereof at a time morning and evening first and last abstaining from drink for three houres after The outward Vse The leaves of Parsly laid to the eyes that are inflamed with heate or are swollen doth much help them if it be used with bread or meal and being laid to womens hard breasts that come by the curding of their
milk doth abate the hardnesse quickly if it be fried with butter and applied and doth also take away black and blew spats or marks by bruises fals c The juice thereof dropped into the ears with a little wine easeth the pains thereof The hurtfull qualitie Parsly eaten raw and too frequently hurts the head breedeth cholerick blood and is hardly digested Women with child must not be too bold with it least it prove dangerous to them Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 31. Of Pellitorie of the wall The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Helxine and Perdicium because Partridges sometimes feed thereon also Parietaria and herba Muralis or Muralium because it groweth near to walls It is counted by most to be cold and moist but surely it is hot otherwise it cannot be so effectual against wind and the stone The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse The dried herb in powder made up with Hony into an Electuarie or the juice of the herb or the Decoction thereof taken with Sugar or Honie is a singular remedy for any old continual or drie cough shortnesse of breath and wheesing in the throat the juice thereof taken to the quantitie of three ounces at a time doth wonderfully ease those that are troubled with the suppression of their Vrine and to expel both the gravel and stone The Decoction also of the herb being drunk easeth the pains of the mother and provoketh the Courses the same also easeth those griefs that arise from the stoppings of the Liver Spleen and Reins The distilled water drunken with Sugar worketh the same effects The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It is much used in Glysters to ease pains in the back sides or bowels proceeding from wind or the like stoppings of Urine or the gravel and stone it worketh the like effect also if the bruised herb sprinkled with some Muskadine be warmed upon a tile or in a dish upon a few quick coals in a chaffing-dish and applied to the belly The decoction thereof may serve as a bath for women to sit in to bring down their Courses to ease gripings c. The same Decoction also with a little Hony added thereto will serve to good purpose to gargle the throat when it is swollen or pained The juice held a while in the mouth easeth the tooth-ache and dropped into the ears easeth the noise and hummings in them and taketh away the pricking and shooting pains in them The juice or herb bruised and applied with a little salt is very effectual to cleanse Fistulaes and to heal them It is likewise very effectual for any green wound that if it be bruised and bound thereto for three dayes you need no other medicine or salve to heal it A Pultis made hereof with Mallowes and boyled in Wine with Wheat bran and Bean flower and some Oyle put thereto and applied warm to any bruised Sinew Tendon or Muscle doth in a very short time restore them to their strength and taketh away the pains of bruises and dissolveth the congealed blood of any beatings or fals from high places The juice or the distilled water cleanseth the skinne from Spots Freckles Purples Wheals Sunburn Morphew c. and leaveth the skin smooth and delicate The said Water or Juice doth asswage hot Impostumes burnings or scaldings as also all other hot tumours or inflammations be it Saint Anthonies fire or any other eruptions of heat being bathed often with wet clothes dipped therein or the said juice made into an Ointment with Cerusse and Oyle of Roses and annointed therewith which doth also cleanse foule rotten Ulcers and stayeth creeping Ulcers and runing Scabs in Childrens heads and helpeth also to stay the falling off the hair of the head c. The leaves mixed with Oyle of sweet Almonds in manner of a Pultis and laid to the pained parts is a good help for them that are troubled with the Stone or are troubled with Wind and gripings Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 32. Of Penny-royal The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Pulegium because it killeth fleas being burned In English Penny-royal and Pudding-grasse It is hot and dry in the third Degree and of subtile parts The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It maketh thick flegm thinn warmeth a cold stomach and digesteth raw matter being boyled and drunk it provoketh womens Courses expels the dead child and after Birth and allayeth the gnawing of the stomach Being mixed with Honey and salt and drunk it is a good Medicine for the Lungs and helpeth cramps The Decoction thereof is good in the Falling-sicknesse Dropsie Jaundise stopping of the Vrine and in the Leprosie Drunk with wine it helpeth such as are stung with venemous beasts The manner of administering it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse Applied to the nostrils with Vinegar it reviveth those that are fainting or sounding being dried and burnt it strengthneth the gums It is helpful to those that are troubled with the gout applied to the place till it wax red applied in a cerot or plaister it taketh away spots or marks in the face it much profiteth those that are splenetick or liver grown being applied with salt The Decoction helpeth those that have the itch being bathed therewith being put into baths for women to sit therein it helpeth the swelling and hardnesse of the mother and when it is out of its place Being bruised and put into Vinegar it cleanseth foul Vlcers and causeth the matter to digest it helpeth black and blew eyes and all discolourings of the face by the fire Being boyled in wine with Hony and Salt it helpeth the tooth-ache It helpeth the cold griefs of the joynts taking away the pains and warming the cold parts being fast bound to the place after a bathing or having been in a hot house A lotion to refresh wearied limbs Take of Penny-royal and Origanum of each a handful and a half of Sage a handful Boyl them in water and wash therewith or bath therein at night The hurtful qualitie Very hot and drie bodies must not be too busie with it Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve Oyle Chymical CHAP. 33. Of Periwinkle The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Vinca Pervinca and Pervinca also Clematis Pervinca in English Periwinkle and Pervinkle It is hot about the second Degree something drie and astringent The inward Vse The leaves boyled in wine and drunk stoppeth the lask and bloody flix An handful of the leaves stamped and the juice thereof given to drink in red wine stoppeth the lask and bloody flix spitting of blood the bleeding of the Hemorrhoides and the overflowing of womens Courses which seldome faileth in any It is also excellent in inward wounds The manner of Administring it It is given in juice or in
Decoction The outward Vse The juice or the herb bruised and put into the nose stoppeth the bleeding thereof The same chewed helpeth the tooth-ache and all stinging of venemous beasts being thereto applied The same mingled with milk and oyl of Roses and put into the Matrix in a Pessary or in other Suppository taketh away the pains thereof Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Pilewort See Celandine CHAP. 34. Of garden and wild Poppies The Names and Temperament THe white Poppy is called in Latine Papaver album sativum the black Papaver nigrum sativum the red Papaver rubrum sativum the red wild Poppie is called Papaver Rhaeas Papaver erraticum and Sylvestre in English Red Poppy and Corn-Rose They are all cold and moist some in the third some in the fourth Degree The inward Vse They are chiefly in use to cause sleep to cool the body and also in diseases of the breast and lungs especially in the Cough Hoarsnesse and Consumptions of the Lungs The Garden Poppy heads with seeds made into a syrupe is frequently used to procure rest and sleep in the sick and weak and to stay hot Rheumes that fall from the head into the stomach and upon the lungs causing a continual Cough the fore-runner of a Consumption the same also helpeth the hoarsnesse of the throat and when one hath lost their voice which the oyl of the seed doth likewise The black seed boyled in wine and drunk is said to stay the flux of the belly and the immoderate Courses of women The empty shels or husks of the Poppy heads are usualy boiled in water and given to procure sleep so do the leavs in the same manner A caudle made of the seeds of white Poppy or made into Almond milk and so given causeth sleep The wild or red Poppy that groweth in the Corn while it is young is a sallet herb in Italy in many places and is used to prevent the Falling-sicknesse The Syrupe made with the Flowers is given to those that have a Pleurisie and the dried flowers also either boyled in water or made into Powder and drunke either in the distilled water of them or in some other drink worketh the like effects and is good also in all other diseases of the head and brest The distilled water thereof is used against surfets to drink it evening and morning It is more cooling then other Poppies and therefore cannot but be as effectual in hot Agues Frensies and other inflammations the Syrupe or water to be used Concerning Opium which is the juice of Poppie thickned see my first part of the nature of Simple Medicines Chap. 49. The manner of Administering it It is used in Decoction Syrupe c. The inward Vse A Decoction of the leaves provoketh rest if the temples and head or feet be bathed therewith and the Oyle doth the like The green heads or leaves bruised and applied with a little Vinegar or made into a Pultis with Barley meal and Hogs grease cooleth all inflammations as also that disease called Saint Anthonies fire The hurtfull Qualitie It must not be used in cold and moist bodies nor to such as have the Palsie Cramp Lethargy c. Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe both simple and compound of many kinds Ex tract Lohoch Oyle CHAP. 35. Of Quinces The Names and Temperament TThe Quince is called in Latine malus Cydonia and Cotonea bccause they were first brought out of Candy saith Plinie in his Natural Historie Book 15. Chap. 11. page 436. Malum Cotoneum Pomum Cydonium and many times Cydonium without any addition are other names given to it They are cold in the first and drie in the second Degree and very binding The sweet are not so cold nor binding as the sowre The inward Vse They are good to stay all manner of fluxes in man or woman and chollerick lasks castings and whatsoever needeth binding and that more when they are green then any way prepared by fire The Syrupe made of the juice is very profitable for the same also so is the Conserve If a little Vinegar be added it stirreth up the weak appetite and the stomach given to casting and if some spices be added it comforteth and strengthneth the decaying and fainting spirits and helpeth the Liver opprest that it cannot perfect the digestion and correcteth choller and flegme To take of the raw juice of Quinces is held a preservative against the force of deadly poyson They are good for those that spit up blood or vomit blood or for the Hicket The Mussilage of the seed taken with a little Sugar is good for the harshnesse and hoarsnesse of the throat and roughnesse of the tongue Quinces used before meals bind the belly but eaten after meals they loose the belly The manner of Administring them They must not be eaten raw but either roasted baked c. The outward Vse The smell of Quince taketh away the strength of the poyson of white Hellebore which Hunters make to kill wild beasts by dipping their Arrow heads therein It hath also been found certain that if Quinces be brought into a house where Grapes are hung up to be kept drie all the year they will assuredly rot with the very smell of them If there be need of any outward binding and cooling of any hot fluxes the Oyle of Quinces or the other Medicines that may be made thereof are very available to anoint the belly or other parts therewith it likewise strengtheneth the stomach and belly and the sinewes that are loosened by sharp humours falling on them and restraineth immoderate sweatings The mussilage of the seeds made in water is very good to cool the heat heal the sore breasts of women The Cotton or Downe of Quinces boyled in wine and applied to plague sores healeth them up and laid as a plaister made up with wax it bringeth haire to them that are bald and keepeth it from falling if it be ready to shed The seeds are very useful in Glisters against fluxes of the belly The hurtfull qualitie Quinces are not convenient for such as are much troubled with costivenesse or much bound in their bodies Of such Medicines as are made thereof Syrupe of divers kinds both simple and compound Marmalade Preserved Quinces Rob Cydoniorum Essence or Spirit Oyle c. CHAP. 36. Of Sage of Jerusalem The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Pulmonaria and Pulmonaria maculosa to distinguish it from the other Lungwort also Symphitum maculosum in English Sage of Jerusalem Couslip of Jerusalem Sage of Bethlehem Lungwort and spotted Comfrey It is judged by some to be cold and drie by others to be hot and dry The inward Vse It is chiefly commended in the Cough shortnesse of breath in ulcers of the Lungs and for such as are full of rotten matter and also for such as spit blood being boyled in water and drunk It is a very good Pot-herb and much in use for that
is much in use to give children against the stopping of their Urine and to ease griping pains in their belly The manner of Administring it It is used chiefly in Decoction The outward Vse It is used outwardly in Bathes and Fomentations to provoke Vrine and to ease pains of the belly c. proceeding from wind The Dose It is given from half a dram to a dram both the root herb and seeds Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 41. Of Scabious The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Scabiosa in English Scabious It is hot and dry in the second Degree opening cleansing digesting and making thinne The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It is effectual for all sorts of Coughs shortnesse of breath and all other the diseases of the brest and lungs ripening and digesting cold flegme and other tough humours voyding them forth by coughing and spitting It ripeneth also all sort of inward Vlcers and Apostumes yea the Pleurisie also if the Decoction of the dry or green herb being made with wine be drunk some time together thereby voiding it forth by Vrine as well as other wayes Four ounces of the clarified juice of Scabious taken in the morning fasting with a dram of Mithridate or Venice Treacle doth free the heart from any infection of the Plague or Pestilence so as upon the taking thereof they sweat two houres in their beds at the first yet after the first time taking let them that are infected take the same proportion again and again if need be for fear of further danger The same is good against the stinging of any venemous beast The Decoction drunke helpeth the pains and stitches of the sides The Decoction of the roots taken for fourtie dayes together or the powder of them to the quantity of a dramme at a time taken in Whey doth as Matthiolus saith wonderfully help those that are troubled with dangerous running or spreading Scabs Tetters or Ringworms yea although they proceed from the French pox The juice or the Decoction drunk doth very much help those that are broken out into scabs and itches The same also wonderfully helpeth all inward wounds be they made by thrust or stroke by the drying cleansing and healing qualitie therein A Syrupe made of the juice and Sugar is very effectual to all the purposes aforesaid and so is the distilled water of the herb and flowers made in due time The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction chiefly A Decoction good against the Cough and shorenesse of breath c. Take of dried Scabious a handful Licoris bruised Anniseed and Fennelseed bruised of each one Ounce white Orris root cut in thin slices half an Ounce Figs cut into pieces a dozen Let all be steeped for a night in a quart of fair water or rather in so much wine boyling them the next day until a third part be consumed at the least whereof take a draught every morning and evening warm with Hony or Sugar The outward Vse The green herb bruised and applied to any Carbuncle or Plague sore is found by good experience to dissolve or break it within the space of three houres the same applied helpeth the stinging of any venemous beast The juice made up into an ointment with Hogs-grease helpeth the itch and scab being thereto applied The Decoction of the herb and roots applied doth help all sorts of hard or cold tumours or swellings in any part of the body and is also as effectual for any shrunk sinew or veine in any place The juice made up with the powder of Borax and Camphor doth cleanse the skin of the face or any other part of the body as Freckles Pimples Morphew and Leprie The same Decoction helpeth the rednesse and spots in the white of the eyes used either by it self or with the juice of Fennel The head washed with the same Decoction cleanseth it from dandraffe scurff scabs sores itches and the like being used warm Tents also dipped in the juice or water thereof doth heale all green wounds old sores and ulcers The herb bruised and applied doth loosen splinter broken bone arrow head or other such like thing lying in the flesh and causeth it to be easily drawn forth Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Syrup both simple and compound Conserve of the flowers Salt CHAP. 42. Of Scurvy-grasse The Names and Temperament THe common Scurvy-grasse is called Cochlearia and Cochlearia vulgaris the other sort with round leaves is called in Latine Cochlearia rotundifolia and Cochlearia Batava in English Scurvigrasse or Spoonwort that with round leaves is called Dutch-Scutvy-grasse It s hot and dry in the second or third Degree especially the garden Scurvy-grasse The inward Vse The English Scurvy-grasse is more used for the salt tast it beareth which doth somewhat open and cleanse but the Dutch or garden Scurvy-grasse is of better effect and chiefly used if it may be had by those that have the Scurvy especially also to purge and cleanse the Blood the Liver and Spleen for all which diseases it is of singular good effect by taking the juice in the Spring every morning fasting in a cup of drink The Decoction is good for the same purpose and the herb tunned up in new drink either by it self or with other things for it openeth obstructions or stoppings and evacuateth cold clammy and flegmatick humours both from the Liver and Spleen wasting and consuming the swelling and hardnesse thereof and thereby bringing to the body a more lively colour The Conserve made of the leaves is a fine delicate Medicine for weak and tender stomachs and worketh the same effect although a little slowly the like doth the Syrupe The manner of Administering it It is given in juice Decoction c. The outward Vse The Juice helpeth all foul Vlcers and sores in the mouth if it be often gargled therewith and used to the skin doth cleanse the same from spots marks or skars that happeneth therein Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Syrupe Conserve Salt and Spirit of Scurvy-grasse Sengreen See House-leek CHAP. 43. Of Shepheards purse The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Bursa pastoris or Pera pastoris in English shepheards purse or pouch and in the North Pick-purse and Case-weed It is counted by most to be cold and dry and much binding The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It stayeth all fluxes of blood as also the fluxes of the belly the bloody flux and the abundance of womens Courses or the pissing of blood the juice or the Decoction of the herb with some Plantane being drunk or any other way taken The manner of Administering it It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse In a Glister it cureth the bloody flix and bruised and applied it helpeth inflammations and Saint Anthonies fire cureth green wounds and is of great effect being made into a
Salve for wounds in the head It stayeth the bleeding of the nose or any wound bleeding being thereto applied Some hold that the green herb bruised and bound to the wrests of the hands and soles of the feet will help the yellow Jaundise and mitigate the fits of Agues Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 44. Of Smallage The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Apium Apium palustre and Paludapium in English Smallage and water Parsly It is hote and drie neere in the third Degree The inward Vse It openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen maketh thin thick fiegme and cleanseth it and the blood withal It provoketh Vrine and Womens Courses and is good for the yellow Jaundise and for the tertian and quartain Agues if the juice thereof be taken but especially made into a Syrupe The seed is used to break and expel wind to kill worms and to help a stinking breath The root is effectual for all the purposes aforesaid and is stronger in operation then the herb but especially to open stoppings and to rid away an Ague if the juice thereof be taken in wine or the Decoction thereof in wine be taken Pliny saith it hath an especial propertie against the poyson of Spiders The outward Vse The juice put to hony of Roses and some Barly water is very good to gargle the mouth and throat of those that have sores and ulcers in them and will quickly heal them the same lotion also doth cleanse and heal all other foul ulcers and cankers else where if they be washed therewith The leaves bruised and boyled with Hogs grease and made into a Poultis cureth Felons and white flawes in the fingers being thereto applied The hurtful qualitie It must not be used in very hot and dry bodies Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Syrupe CHAP. 45. Of Sorrell The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Oxlis of the sharpe tast and Acetosa in English Sorrell and Garden Sorrel It is cooling and drying in the second Degree The inward Vse It is prevalent in all hot diseases to cool any inflammations heat of the blood in Agues Pestilential or Cholerick or other sicknesses and faintings rising from heat and to refresh the overspent spirits with the violence of furious fits of Agues c. to quench thirst and to procure an Appetite in fainting and decayed stomacks for it resisteth the putrifaction of the blood killeth wormes and is as a Cordial to the heart which the seed doth more effectually being more drying and binding and thereby also stayeth the hot fluxes of womens Courses or of humours in the bloody flix or flux of the stomach The roots also in Decoction or in powder is effectual for the said purposes both roots and seeds as well as the herb is held powerful to resist the poyson of the Scorpion so that he that shall eat thereof shall feel no pain being stung The Decoction of the roots is taken to help the Iaundise and to expel gravel and the stone in the Kidneyes The Decoction of the Flowers made with wine and drunk helpeth the black Jaundise as also the inward ulcers of the body or bowels A Syrupe made with the Juice of Sorrel and Fumitorie is a soveraign help to kill the force of those sharp humours that cause the itch The distilled water of the herb is used for the aforesaid purposes The outward Vse The juice with a little vinegar is useful for frettings and gallings of the skin in any part and for Tetters c. It helpeth also to dissolve or disperse kernels in the throat and the juice gargled in the mouth helpeth the sores therein and dropped into the ears helpeth deafnesse The leaves wrapped up in a Colewort leafe or a wet paper and roasted under the Embers and applied to an hard impostume botch bile or plague sore both ripeneth and breaketh it The hurtfull qualitie It is hurtful to melancholly persons Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve Syrup CHAP. 46. Of Spinage The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Spinachia and Spinacheum olus in English Spinage and Spinach It is cold and moist in the first or second Degree The inward Vse Being young and tender it is used in Sallads and looseth the belly moderately cooleth the Lungs represseth Choler lenifieth the roughnesse of the throat and wind-pipe and is good for those that have hot and chollerick stomachs In France this herb shred and made up in bals fried with Oyle and Vinegar in the time of Lent filleth up the room of an ordinary dish The outward Vse It is outwardly used to cool inflammations to cool the heat of the stomach and Liver and laid upon hot swellings it taketh away the heat thereof and dissolveth the swelling The hurtful qualitie It weakneth the stomach encreaseth wind and waterish humours and yieldeth little or no nourishment at all hurteth the flegmatick and being often used breeds melancholly blood Of such things as are made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 47. Of Succory The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Cichorium and Cichorea in English Succory It is cold and drie in the second Degree others will have it to be hot because it is bitter The inward Vse A handful of the leaves or roots boyled in wine or water and a draught thereof drunk fasting driveth forth chollerick and flegmatick humours openeth the stoppings of the Liver Gall and Spleen helpeth the yellow Jaundise the heat of the reins and of the urine the Dropsie also and those that have the green sicknesse A Decoction thereof made with wine and drunk is very effectual against long lingering Agues and a dram of the seed in powder drunk in wine before the fit of an Ague doth help to drive it away The distilled water of the herb and flowers performeth the same afore said and is special good for hot stomachs and in Agues either pestilential or of long continuance and for swoundings and passions of the heart for the heat and head-ache in Children and to temper the distemperature of the blood and liver The manner of Administering it It is used chiefly in Decoction juice and Syrupe The outward Vse The distilled water or the juice or the herb bruised and applied allayeth tumours inflammations Saint Anthonies fire pushes wheales and pimples especially used with a little Vinegar as also to wash pestiferous sores the said water is effectual for sore eyes that are inflamed or are red as also for Nurses sore breasts that are pained by abundance of milk Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Conserve The root candied Syrupe simple and compound CHAP. 48. Of Tamarisk The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Myrica Tamarix and Tamariscus in English Tamarisk It is of a cleansing and cutting quality without manifest drying that it hath a little therein but the fruit and bark are much more drying The
Duration It will keep good a year the bark longer The inward Vse It is very powerful against the stopping and hardnesse of the Spleen if the root or leaves or young branches be boyled in wine or vinegar and drunk The leaves boyled in wine and drunk is good to stay the bleeding of the Hemorrhoidal veins the spitting of blood and womens Courses that flow too much and helpeth the Jaundise the Collick and the bitings of the Spider Plalangium the Viper and all other venemous Serpents except the Aspe The bark is as effectual or rather more to all the purposes aforesaid It is reported that the Egyptians use the wood hereof to cure the French disease with as good successe as others doe with Lignum vitae and give it alwayes to such as have the Lepry scab pushes ulcers or the like and helpeth the Dropsie arising from the hardnesse and stopping of the Spleene as also melancholly and the black Jaundise that ariseth thereof Cups or Cans made thereof and drunk in is good for Splenitick persons The manner of Administring it It is used chiefly in Decoctions and diet drinks The outward Vse It is good for the hardnesse of the Spleene if the root or leaves or young branches be boyled in Wine or Vinegar and applied The barke and leaves boyled in Wine and the mouth and teeth often washed therewith helpeth the tooth-ache being dropped into the ears easeth the pain thereof and is good for the rednesse and watering of the eyes The said Decoction with some Hony put thereto is good to stay gangreens and fretting ulcers the said decoction is also good to wash those that are subject to lice and nits The ashes of the wood are used for all the aforesaid effects and besides doth quicly help the blisters raised by burnings or scaldings by fire or water Of such things as are made thereof The extract Salt CHAP. 49. Of Tansie The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Tanacetum because the yellow Flowers gathered in due time do not dye or wither speedily in English Tansie It is hot and dry in the second or third Degree The inward Vse The Decoction of Garden or common Tansie or the juice drunke in Wine is a singular remedy for all the griefs of the Vrine to provoke it being stopped to help those that have the strangury and have weak reins and kidneyes and that cannot make their water but by drops It expelleth wind in the stomach or belly procureth womens Courses and expelleth windinesse in the mother It is much used in Lent and in the beginning of the Spring while the herb is young and tender to make Tansies and are very profitable for those stomacks that are troubled with bad humours cleaving thereunto both to help to digest them and by clearing the stomach of them to carry them away downward The seed is given to children to kill worms and the juice given in drink is as effectual for the same The root preserved in Sugar is a remedy for them that have the cold Gout if they take thereof fasting for cerrain dayes together The manner of Administering it It is given in Decoction or in juice The outward Vse Being boyled in Oyle it is very profitably applied to comfort the Sinewes that are shrunk by cramps or are in pain through cold If it be bruised and smelled unto often as also applied to the lower parts of the belly it is found to be profitable for such women as are given to miscarry in child-bearing to cause them to go out their full time without danger or losse The hurtfull qualitie It is hurtful to young persons and chollerick bodies Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 50. Of Thyme The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Thymus and Thymum in English Thyme It is hot and dry in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse Thyme doth help somewhat to purge flegm if it be taken with Hony Salt and Vinegar The Decoction thereof is good for those that are troubled with shortnesse of breath killeth worms in the belly procureth the monethly courses of women expelleth the after Birth or Secundine after it hath holpen the delivery of the child and causeth tough flegme to be easily brought away being taken with Honey in an Electuary and helpeth also those that are dull sighted It is of good use in meats and broths to warm and comfort the stomach and to help to break wind as well for the sick as the sound It is very profitable in the Collick and Iliack and Nephritick passions and most excellent against Melancholly and stoppings of the Matrix and dissolveth clotted or congealed blood in the body Aetius saith that foure drams of dried Thyme in powder being given in Oxymel fasting to them that have the Gout it helpeth them for it purgeth Choller and other sharp humours and that if one dram thereof be given fasting with meade it dissolveth the hard swellings of the belly It is profitable for those that have swellings in their sides and pains in their loynes and hips it is likewise given fasting to those that have great pains in their eyes and are blear-eyed The manner of Administering it It is chiefly given in Powder or in Decoction The outward Vse The Decoction thereof dissolveth tumours or swellings when they are fresh being bathed therewith The juice thereof being anointed or bathed on the place with some Vinegar taketh away loose or hanging warts It helpeth those that have the Sciatica applied with wine and meale and helpeth the swollen cods being laid thereto It is used in bathes to expel wind and to ease the joynt-gout The Dose It is given in powder from a dram to two or three drams Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water Spirit Chymical Oyle Syrupe CHAP. 51. Of Vex vain The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Verbena and Verbenaca in English Vex vain and Pigeons grasse because Pigeons delight to be amongst it It is hot and dry bitter and binding cleansing and healing The inward Vse It is an opener of obstructions helpeth the yellow Jaundise the Dropsy and the Gout as also the defect of the Reins and Lungs and generally all inward pains and torments of the body the leaves being boyled and drunk The same is held to be good against the biting of Serpents and venemous beasts and the Plague or Pestilence against both Tertian and Quartane Agues killeth and expelleth Wormes and causeth a good colour in the face and body strengthneth as well as correcteth the diseases of the Liver and spleen is very effectual in all diseases of the stomach and lungs as Coughs shortnesse of Breath and wheesing and expelleth the stone in the Reins It healeth all inward wounds stayeth bleedings and flues of the belly It is very profitable in cold diseases of the head and eyes restraineth lust nd doth facilitate or hasten the birth in hand labours of women The
to cause them to heal the more speedily It is no lesse effectual also in green wounds to be used upon any occasion Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 55. Of Wood Sorell The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Lujula and Alleluja because about that time it is in flower Alleluja was wont to be sung in the Churches in English Wood Sorrell Wood Sower Stubwort and Sorrell Dubois It is cold and dry in the second Degree The Duration It will keep long dry but we may find it almost all the year The inward Vse It is more effectual then other Sorels are especially in hindering the putrifaction of blood and ulcers in the mouth and body and in cooling heats and inflammations to quench thirst to strengthen a weak stomach to procure an appetite to stay vomiting and most excellent in any contagious sicknesse or pestilential Feaver The Syrupe made of the juice is effectual in all the causes aforesaid and so is the distilled water also The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or in juice The outward Vse Spunges or Linnen clothes wet in the juice and applied to any hot tumors and inflammations doth exceedingly cool and heal them the same juice taken into the mouth and there gargled for some time and after spit forth and fresh taken will wonderfully help a stinking foule Canker or Vlcer therein and helpeth well also to stay any hot defluxions or Catarrhes upon the throat and lungs It is also singular good in wounds punctures thrusts and stabs into the body to stay bleeding and to cleanse and heale the wounds speedily Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Conserve Syrupe FINIS The Alphebetical Table of such diseases as are mentioned in this Second Part. A ABortion See Miscarrying Aches cold Chap. 27 Afterbirth chap. 2. 9. 16. 17. 30. 32. 38. 40. 50 Agues to cure chap. 17. 21. 43 44. 45. 47 Agues of long continuance chap. 7 Ague tertian chap. 22. 28 44. 51 Ague quartane chap. 22. 26. 44. 51 Agues hot chap. 11. 20. 34. 52 Almonds swollen chap. 15 Appetite to provoke chap. 2. 10. 28. 35. 39. 45. 55 Apoplexie chap. 13. 24 Apostumes chap. 1 21. 22. 28. 41. 45. 52 Apostume hot chap. 31 Arthritical pains chap. 13 B BAck pained chapter 13. 31 52 Back weak chap. 9 Barrennesse chap. 9. 27 Beard scurvinesse thereof chap. 23 Belly pained chap. 7. 8. Bees stinging chap. 20. 39 Bile or Botch chap. 45 Belly to loose chap. 35 Belly pained chapter 14. 26 28 Birth to bring away chap. 2. 4. 17. 30. 38. 50. 51 Blacknesse and spots see Spots and Bruises Bladder to cleanse chap. 17 Bladder pained chapter 13. 16. 52. Bleeding inward chap. 18. 26. 37. 51. 55 Blood spitting chap. 19. 33. 35 36 37 48 Blood pissing chap. 43 Blood vomiting chap. 1. 35. Blood congealed chap. 3. 5. 8. 15. 31. 50. 54 Blood to cleanse chap. 4. 23. 42. 44. 45. 53 Blood to increase chap. 12 Blood hot Chap. 20. 22. 45. 47 Bones broken chap. 5 Bones broken to draw out chap. 10. 41 Botches chap. 23. 45 Bots in horses chap. 38 Bowels pained chap. 37 Brain cold chap. 3 Breasts of Women pained chapter 47 Breasts sore chap. 35 Breasts swollen chap. 30 Breasts cancerous chap. 7 Breath short chap. 11. 14. 16. 17. 21. 23. 27. 31. 36. 38. 41. 50. 51 Breath stinking chap. 44 Bruises and fals chapter 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 15. 18. 21. 27. 29. 30. 31. 54 Burning and scalding chap. 1. 13. 20. 23. 28. 31. 48 Burstings see Ruptures C CAncers chapter 20. 26. 44. 55 Cancer fistulous chap. 22 Cankers in the mouth chap. 26. 55 Cancers fretting chap. 38 Carbuncles chap. 23. 38. 41 Catarrhe see Rheume Child dead to bring away chap. 4. 17. 32. 40. Choller to purge chapter 17. 47. 50. 52 Choller to represse chapter 46 Chollericke stomackes chapter 46 Cod swollen chap. 14. 15 Collick chap. 3. 6. 8. 12. 13. 29. 40. 48. 50 Consumption chap. 26. 34 Contagious diseases chap. 55 Contusion see Bruises Convulsions and Cramps chap. 13. 27. 32 Corns chap. 20. 23 Cough chap. 11. 14. 16 17. 21. 23. 26. 27 28 30. 31 34. 41. 51. Courses to provoke chapter 2. 4. 8. 9. 15. 17. 21. 23. 27. 28. 30. 31. 32. 38. 39. 40 44 48. 50. 53. 54. Courses to stay chap. 1. 7. 14. 18. 20. 22. 26. 33. 34. 35. 37. 43. 45 Cramp see Convulsion Crude and raw humours to expel chap. 3 D Dandraffe chapter 41 Deafnesse chap. 39. 45 Digestion to help chapter 6. 12 Dislocations chapter 23 Dog mad biting thereof chapter 28 Dropsie chap. 4. 7. 14. 17. 21. 23. 26. 30. 32. 47. 48. 51 53 Dysentery flux chap. 37 E Eares pained chap. 28. 30. 31. 48 Eares inflamed chap. 21 Eares running Chap. 22 Eares noise therein chap. 21 31. 39 Eruptions of the skin chap. 20. 31 Erysipelas See wildfire Eyes red chap. 1. 22. 24. 30. 41. 47. 48. 52 Eyes blood shotten chap. 14 Eyes watery chap. 1 Eyes to cleanse chap. 51 Eyes spots therein chap. 7. 9 41. 51 Eyes swollen chap. 30 Eyes pained chap. 50 Eyes blear chap. 50 Eyes films therein chap. 7 Eyes black and blew chapter 32 F FAce pale chap. 21. 42. 51 Face spots thereof chapter 3. 38. 41 Face to make faire chap. 23. 32 Falling sicknesse chapter 15. 16. 21. 30. 32. 34. 52 Falls See Bruises Feaver burning chap. 1. 10. 25. 45 Feaver pestilential chap. 10. 45. 47. 55 Feaver hecticke chap. 25 Felon chap. 23. 41 Fistulaes chap. 5. 3 Fistula of the Leg. chapter 51 Fleas to kill chap. 39 Flegme to purge chap. 17. 51 Flegme tough chap. 21. 28. 39. 44. 50 Flux of the belly chap. 3. 19. 20. 22. 34. 35. 45. 51 Flux bloody chap. 22. 26. 33. 35. 37. 43. 45 Fluxes in women Chapter 18. Freckles chap. 15. 17. 31. 38 41. 53 Frensie chap. 20. 34. 51 French Pox chapter 15. 41. 48. 54 Fundament inflamed chapter 52 G Gall stopt chap. 7. 47 Galling of the skin chap. 45 Gangreen chap. 5. 48 Gonorrhaea See running of the Reins Gout chapter 13. 24. 28. 32. 50. 51 Gout cold chap. 49. 51 Gravel chap. 16 18. 31. 45 Green sicknesse chap. 47. 53 Gripings of the belly chap. 31 Grosse humours to purge chapter 21 Gums bleeding chap. 19 Gums sore chap. 5 Gums to strengthen chap. 32 H HAir falling chapter 23. 28. 31. 35. 51 Head-ache chap. 10. 11. 14 Head-ache of cold chap. 17. 27. 51 Head-ache of heat chapter 20 52 Head-ache in Children chapter 47 Head itching chap. 21 Head scabbed chap. 27 Head to purge chap. 28 Head cold chap. 6. 51 Heart to comfort chap. 3. 10. 17. 19 24. 45. 47 Heat to asswage chap. 52. 55 Hemorrhoides to help chap. 7. 11. 51. 52 Hemorrhoides to provoke chapter 28 Hemorrhoides bleeding chapter 33. 48 Hemorrhoides painful chapter 27 Hicket Chap. 19. 35 Hips pained chap. 50 Hip gout see Sciatica Hoarsnesse chap. 16. 34. 35.