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
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
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
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