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
whether you use the Flowers Leaves or Seed but the Roots are most effectual either taken in Powder or in a Decoction with white Wine whereunto a little Honey is added The same helpeth to expel the after-Birth is good in the Jaundise and Falling-sicknesse The Roots made into Powder and mixed with Honey into the form of an Electuarie doth much help them whose stomacks are swollen breaking and dissolving the wind which was the cause thereof as also is very effectual for all the diseases of the Lungs as shortnesse of Breath wheesings hoarsenesse of the throat and the Cough and to bring away cold Flegme there-from or any other parts there-abouts The manner of Administring it It is given in Powder or Decoction chiefly The outward Vse Being bruised and applied it helpeth the swelling of the Piles or Hemorrhoides The Dose It is given in powder from half a dram to a dram Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water CHAP. 17. Of Featherfew The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Parthemium matricatia and Febrifuga because it expels Feavers or Agues in English Featherfew and Feaverfew It is hot and dry in the third Degree or hot in the third Degree and dry in the second it cleanseth purgeth or scourceth openeth and fully performeth all that bitter things can do The inward Vse It is chiefly used for the diseases of the mother whether it be the rising of the Mother or the hardnesse or inflammations of the same if a Decoction of the flowers or herbs be made in wine with a little Nutmeg or Mace put therein and drunk often in a day the same bringeth down the Courses also speedily and warmeth those parts oppressed by stoppings or cold as also helpeth to expel the dead Birth and the after Birth A Decoction thereof taken with Sugar or Hony helpeth the cough and stuffing of the chest by cold as also to cleanse the reins in them The powder of the herb saith Dioscorides taken in wine with some Oxymel or Water and Honie purgeth like to Epithymum both Choller and Flegme and is available for those that are short winded and are troubled with melancholly and heavinesse or sadnesse of the spirits It is very effectual for the swimming of the head and winde in the stomach and is frequently given before the fits of Agues It is good in the Dropsey and helpeth such as are impotent in venereous acts It is a good remedie against Opium taken too liberally The manner of Administring It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse Being applied outwardly to the Mother it helpeth the rising thereof the hardnesse or inflammation of the same and bringeth down Womens Courses the Birth and after Birth if a Woman sit over the hot Fumes of the Decoction of the herb made in water or wine It is effectual for all cold pains of the head the herb being bruised and applyed to che crown of the head It is a frequent custome to apply the herb bruised with Glasse and Bay-salt to the wrists of the hands before the fits of Agues The same bruised and heated on a tile with a little wine to moysten it or fried with a little Oyle and wine in a frying-pan and applied warm to the stomach or belly expelleth wind and griping pains The distilled water is used to take away spots freckles and other deformities of the skin The hurtfull qualitie It must not be used in very hot and drie bodies Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled Water Filipendula See Dropwort CHAP. 18. Of Golden Rod. The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Virga aurea in English Golden Rod. It is hot and dry almost in the second Degree The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It is much in use against the stone in the Kidneyes and to provoke Urine as also to bring away gravel The Decoction of the herb green or drie or the distilled water thereof is very effectual for inward bruises and stayeth bleedings in any part of the body and of wounds also and Fluxes in women and fluxes of the belly as also the bloody flix in man or woman availeth in Ruptures and is a soveraign wound herb The manner of Administering it It is given chiefly in Decoction The outward Vse The green herb bruised and applied helpeth bruises bleeding at the nose or wounds bleeding Fluxes of the belly and Ruptures It healeth green wounds quickly or old sores and ulcers that are hard to be cured which often come by flux of moist humours thereunto and hinder them from healing it is likewise useful in all lotions for sores or ulcers in the mouth or throat or in the privie parts of Man or Woman the Decoction thereof likewise helpeth to fasten the teeth that are loose Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 19. Of Harts-tongue The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Lingua Cervina and Phyllitis in English Harts-tongue It is cold and drying The inward Vse It is commended against the hardnesse and stopping of the Liver and Spleen and against the heat of the Liver and Stomach it is very good also against lasks and the bloody flux and spitting of blood Dioscorides saith it is good against the biting of Serpents The leaves are green almost all the yeare The distilled water is commended against the passions of the heart and to stay the Hicket The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse The distilled water thereof is said to help the falling of the Pallate and to stay the bleeding of the gums if the mouth be gargled therewith The herb or the juice applied doth mundifie or cleanse wounds and ulcers Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water of the leaves CHAP. 20. Of White House-leek The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sempervivum and sedum majus in English Houseleek and sengreen It is cold in the third Degree moderately drying and binding The inward Vse The juice thereof taken with Sugar or a Posset made with the juice is singular good in all hot Agues and inflammations for it cooles and temperateth the blood and spirits quenches thirst helpeth fluxes of the belly stayeth the Courses in women killeth worms and is good against the biting of the Phalangium Spider The distilled water is profitable for the purposes aforesaid The outward Vse The juice dropped into the eyes is good to stay all hot defluxions of sharp and salt rheume into them It cooleth inflammations Saint Anthonies fire and all other hot corruption in the flesh scaldings also and burnings the shingles fretting Ulcers Cankers Tetters Ringworms and the like easeth the hot gout The juice taketh away warts and Corns being often bathed rherewith and the skin of the leavs being laid on afterwards it easeth the headache and distempered heat of the brain in Frensies or for want of rest being applied to the temples or forehead the leaves
It is used for colds and coughs and shortnesse of breath The juice thereof drunk in Wine is profitable for those that are bruised The manner of Administring It is chiefly given in Decoction The outward Vse A bath made thereof and used or to sit over the hot Fumes doth help to bring down womens Courses help barrennesse and warm those parts The green herb bruised and applied to the Fundament there abiding for two or three houres easeth the sharp pains of the piles the juice also is effectual for the same purpose being made up into an Ointment and applied A Decoction thereof is commended to wash the head to take away the scabs thereof and may be effectual for other parts of the body also CHAP. 28. Of Onions The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Cepa in English Onions They are hot and drie in the fourth Degree The inward Vse Onions provoke the appetite ease the pains of the belly provoke urine and womens Courses help the biting of a mad Dog and of other venemous creatures to be used with a little Honey and Rue and increase Sperme especially the seed They also kill the worms in children if they drink the water fasting wherein they have been steeped all night being rosted under the Embers and eaten with Honey and Sugar and Oyle they help an old Cough by cutting the tough Flegme and causing it to be easily spit forth It is counted by many a good preservative against infection to eat Onions fasting with bread and salt Onions sliced and dipped in the juice of Sorrel and given to one sick of a Tertian Ague to eat taketh away the fit in once or twise so taking them The manner of Administering them The best way to use them is to boyl them and so to eat them with Butter Vinegar and Pepper or to lay them a steep some time in water and so to eat them The outward Vse The juice snuffed up into the nostrils purgeth the head and helpeth the Lethargie and is good also for scalding or burning by fire water or gunpowder and used with Vinegar taketh away all blemishes spots and marks in the skinne and dropped into the eares easeth the pains and noise in them applyed also with Figs beaten together helpeth to ripen and break Impostumes and other sores especially being first rosted in Embers stamped with Salt Rue and Hony and so applied they are good against the biting of a mad Dog The juice of Onions mixed with the Decoction of Pennirial and a cloth wet therein and applied easeth the Gout Some take a great Onion and being made hollow they fill the place with good Treacle and then roast it well under Embers after which let the outermost skins be taken away and being well beaten and applied to any Plague sore or putrid ulcer they say it is a soveraign Medicine The juice mixed with Hony and a bald head anointed therewith causeth the hair to grow again They provoke the Hemorrhoides being laid unto them either by themselves or stamped with Vinegar They help Kibes being roasted and applied with butter or hogs-grease The hurtful qualitie Being too often or immoderately eaten raw they breed ill and corrupt humours in the stomach inflame the blood increase thirst cause drowsinesse and the head-ache hurt the sight dull and disturb the memorie and understanding They are hurtful to young men and chollerick persons They are flatulent or windie CHAP. 29. Of Osmund royal The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Osmunda regalis of the singular properties therein also Filix aquatica in English Osmund royal Osmund the waterman water Fern and Zut Christophers herb The root is hot and drie The Duration The root will keep good two or three years The inward Vse The Decoction of the leaves or roots drunk is useful for Ruptures or burstings as also for such as have falled or bruised themselves or have any inward wound and giveth ease to the Collick and splenetick diseases The powder hath the sams vertue and is excellent for such as cannot hold their water The manner of Administring it It is given in Decoction or powder The outward Vse It is singular in wounds bruises broken bones Ruptures or burstings boyled into an Ointment or Oyle as a Balsame or Balme or boyled in astringent wine and so applied in manner of a Poultis The Dose The Dose of the root in powder is from half a scruple to two scruples Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water of the leaves Syrupe CHAP. 30. Of Parsley The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Petroselinum in English Parsley or garden Parsley It is hot and dry in the second Degree the seed hot in the second Degree and drie almost in the third the root is also of a moderate heat The inward Vse It is much used in meats and brothes in all Countries and doth help to provoke Urine and Womens Courses and to break wind both in the stomach and bowels and doth a little open the body but the root much more and openeth the stoppings of both Liver and Spleen and is profitable for the yellow Jaundise and Dropsie Galen commendeth it against the Falling-sicknesse and to provoke Urine mightily especially if the roots be boyled and eaten with Parsneps The seed is held by most to be most effectual yet some do think the root to be strongest but the seed is effectual to provok Vrine and Womens Courses to expel winds to breake the stone and to ease the pains and torments thereof or of any other part in the stomach and body procured by wind and also is effectual against venome and is put therefore into counterpoysons for that purpose as also against the danger that cometh to them that have taken Litharge it is also used among other things that serve for the Cough The seeds boyled in white wine and taken help to bring away the Birth and after Birth The distilled water of the herb is much used by Nurses for Children against wind and gripings in the belly or stomach The manner of administering it It is chiefly used in Decoction A Decoction against the Jaundise Dropsie Falling-sicknesse Stone in the Reins Take of Parsly seeds Fennel Aniseed and Carrawayes of each an Ounce of the roots of Parsly Burnet Saxi frage and Carrawayes of each one Ounce and a half let the seeds be bruised and the roots washed and cut small let them all be steeped in a pottle of white wine one night and in the morning boyled in a close earthen vessel until a third part or more be wasted which being strained and cleared take foure Ounces thereof at a time morning and evening first and last abstaining from drink for three houres after The outward Vse The leaves of Parsly laid to the eyes that are inflamed with heate or are swollen doth much help them if it be used with bread or meal and being laid to womens hard breasts that come by the curding of their
purpose The manner of Administering it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It is used to heal old or new wounds being thereto applied or boyled in Hogs-grease strained and being cold laid thereto Of such Medicines as are made thereof The distilled water CHAP. 37. Of Sanicle or Sanickle The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sanicula from its excellencie in healing wounds also Diapensia in English Sanicle and Sanickle It is hot and drie in the second Degree and bitter and astringent or binding The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse It helpeth Wounds Ulcers Impostumes or any inward bleedings and doth wonderfully help those that have any tumour in their bodies in any part if the Decoction or juice thereof be taken or the powder in drink for there is not found any herb that can give such present help either to man or beast when the disease falleth upon the lungs or throat It stayeth all womens Courses and all other fluxes of blood either by the mouth urine or stool and lasks of the belly the ulceration of the kidneyes also and the pains in the bowels and the running of the reins being boyled in water and drunk the same helpeth ruptures or burstings and is as effectual in binding restraining consolidating heating drying and healing as Comfrey Bugle Self heal or any other woundherb whatsoever A spoonful or two of the juice taken three or foure mornings together with a little Sugar helpeth such as have any veine broken in the lungs or spetting of blood The manner of Administring it It is chiefly used in Decoction The outward Vse It cureth all green Wounds and Ulcers speedily if they be washed with the Decoction thereof or the juice It healeth also all malign putrid or stinking ulcers of the mouth throat and privities by gargling or washing with the Decoction of the leaves and roots made in water and a little Honey put thereto The herb boyled in water and applied in manner of a Pultis doth dissolve and wast away cold swellings The hurtfull qualitie Such as are much bound in their bodies are not to use it too frequently Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water of the green herb The juice CHAP. 38. Of Savine The Names and Temperament IT is called in Latine Sabina and Savina in English Savine or garden Savine It is hot and drie in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good a year but you may have it green all the year It is hot and drie in the third Degree The inward Vse Matthiolus saith that a dram of Savine in powder mixt with 3 ounces of Niter and 2 of Hony doth wonderfully help such as are short winded The Decoction thereof drunk doth provoke the courses and draweth forth the Birth and after Birth expelleth blood by urine and is profitable for the Kings Evil. It killeth worms in children and the Bots in Horses or Cattel to give it in their drink or with their Oats The distilled water thereof is effectual against worms and helpeth those that have a giddinesse in their brain Savine doth powerfully resist putrifactions The manner of Administring It is given in Decoction or in Powder The outward Vse The perfume of the Decoction taken underneath provoketh the Courses brings away the Birth and after Birth Being mixed with Hony and used it cures Vlcers stayeth spreading and creeping Vlcers taketh away their blacknesse as also all spots and freckles from the face or body It breaketh or dissolveth Carbuncles and Plague sores It killed worms being boyled and applied to the belly or the Oyle made thereof and used doth the like The powder of the leaves mixed with cream or the green leaves boyled in cream and anointed on running sores or dry sores cleanseth them throughly and healeth them as also Saint Anthonies fire The fresh leaves bruised and laid upon running and fretting Cankers and the like killeth and destroyeth them The powder of the leaves used with some other things or strewed upon doth help those blisters that rise on the yard by inordinate luxurie after they have been bathed with the Decoction of the leaves The distilled water doth cleanse the skin from spots of marks therein and other deformities The smoake thereof cureth Hens that have gotten the pipp The hurtful qualitie It must not be given to women with childe but with good advise least it destroy the Birth Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water The Oyle of Savine CHAP. 39. Of Savorie The Kinds Names and Temperament THere are two sorts of Savory chiefly in use the Winter and the Summer Savory The Winter Savory is called Satureia hortensis or vulgaris the Summer Savory is called Satureia hortensis activa Both sorts are hot and dry in the third Degree especially the Summer kind which is both sharp and quicke in taste The inward Vse Savory expelleth wind in the stomach and bowels and is a present help for the rising of the mother procured by wind provoketh Vrine and womens Courses and is much commended for women with childe to take often of it It procures a good appetite to meat and takes away all manner of loathing to the same It cutteth tough flegme in the chest and lungs and helpeth to bring it away more easily It quickneth the sight and some write that it provoketh venery The outward Vse It is much commended for women with childe to smel often to it It helpeth to quicken the dull spirits of the Lethargy the juice being snuffed up into the nostrils the juice also is of good use to be dropped into the eyes to clear the dull sight if it proceed of raw thinn cold humours distilling from the brain The same also heated with a little Oyle of Roses and dropped into the ears taketh away the noise and singing in them and deafnesse also Being applied with wheat flower in manner of a Poultis giveth ease to the Sciatica or members that have the Palsie by heating and warming them and taketh away the pain It taketh away the stinging of Bees Wasps c. and being laid in Chambers it killeth Fleas Of such things as are made thereof The distilled water Chymical Oyle CHAP. 40. Of English or common Saxifrage The Names and Temperaments IT is called in Latine Saxifraga and Saxifraga Anglicana in English Stone-break and English Saxifrage It is hot and dry in the third Degree The Duration It will keep good a year The inward Vse A Decoction made with the seeds and roots being taken breaketh the stone in the bladder and kidneyes helpeth the strangury and causeth one to pisse freely The roots boyled in Wine and taken bringeth down womens Courses expelleth the after Birth and dead Child The root dried and made into powder and taken with Sugar comforteth and warmeth the stomach cureth the gnawings and griping pains of the belly easeth the Collick also and expelleth wind The Cheshire-women put it in their running or rennet for cheese The distilled water
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
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
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