CHAP. XXX.
Of Garden and Water-Cresses.
GArden-Cresses, so called because they grow at all times, and are of great nourishment, as also Water-Cresses, doe loue moist places, and the little Brookes rising from Springs and other little Riuers: wherefor•• they aske no other labour in Gardens, but to be planted neere to 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that they may grow well, and to be watered euerie day, hauing water 〈◊〉〈◊〉 at their foot.
Both of them are verie good in Salads of Lettuce, and haue great force against the Stone and difficultie of Vrine: And furthermore, Cresses of the Garden, made in a Cataplasme, doth resolue Carbuncles, the Sciatica, Cat-haires, and all other sorts of Impostumes; especially if it be mixed with Leauen, it killeth the Wormes. The iuice thereof, drunke with the iuice of Mints and Wine, doth the like. The iuice of Water-Cresses dropped into the eare, doth heale the pai•••• of the teeth, comming of a cold cause. The seed of Cresses chewed and held 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the mouth, is good against the palsie of the Tongue. In the palsies of oth•• parts, there must be applyed vnto the said parts bagges full of the seed of the said Cresses, hauing boyled 〈◊〉〈◊〉 first in Wine. The same remedie is good also for the Colicke.
Water-Cresses in a fomentation comfort a cold stomacke, prouoke the termes, mundifie and cleanse the mother, and prepare it to conceiue. They dissolue the colicke of the mother, if you frie them with Mugwort vpon a hot fire-〈◊〉〈◊〉 sprinkling them with red wine, and applying them vnto the bellie. They are verie singular against the paines of the mother after Child-birth, if with the flowers of Camomill, and the leaues of Mugwort, all chopped small and incorporated with foure yolkes of egges, you frie them all in a frying-panne with the oyle of Lil∣lies, and applie it hot vnto the bellie and nauell. The iuice thereof rubbed abo•••• the cods, stayeth the flux of the seed in the night time. A Cataplasme made of the leaues of Water-Cresses, of the leaues and rootes of Turneps, and of the rootes of Parsley, all chopped small, and fried with pure wine and butter, and applyed 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the stomacke and the groine, causeth the vrine that hath beene long kept, to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 away and auoid.