¶ The Vertues.
The leaues and seed of Arsmart do waste and consume all cold swellings, dissolue and scatter [ A] congealed bloud that commeth of bruisings or stripes.
The same bruised and bound vpon an impostume in the ioynts of the fingers (called among the [ B] vulgar sort a fellon or vncome) for the space of an houre, taketh away the paine: but (saith the Au∣thor) it must be first buried vnder a stone before it be applied; which doth somewhat discredit the medicine.
The leaues rubbed vpon a tyred jades backe, and a good handfull or two laid vnder the saddle, [ C] and the same set on againe, wonderfully refresheth the wearied horse, and causeth him to trauell much the better.
It is reported that Dead Arsmart is good against inflammations and hot swellings, being ap∣plied [ D] in the beginning: and for greene wounds, if it be stamped and boyled with oyle Oliue, waxe, and Turpentine.
‡ The faculties of the fourth are not yet knowne. Lobel saith it hath a venenate qualitie: and [ E] Tragus saith a vomitorie: yet neither of them seemes to affirme any thing of certaintie, but rather by heare-say. ‡