¶ The Vertues.
The leaues of Chamaepytis tunned vp in Ale, or infused in wine or sodden with hony, and drunke [ A] by the space of eight or ten daies, cureth the iaudies, the Sciatica, the stoppings of the liuer, the difficultie of making water, the stoppings of the spleene, and causeth women to haue their natural sicknesse.
Chamaepytis stamped greene with honie cureth wounds, malignant and rebellious vlcers, and dis∣solueth [ B] the hardnesse of womens brests or paps, and profitably helpeth against poison, or biting of any venomous beast.
The decoction drunke, dissolueth congealed bloud, and drunke with vineger, driueth forth the [ C] dead childe.
It clenseth the intrals: it helpeth the infirmities of the liuer and kidneies; it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the yellow [ D] iaundies being drunke in wine: it bringeth downe the desired sicknesse, and prouoketh vrine: being boiled in Mead or honied water and drunke, it helpeth the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in fortie daies. The people of Heraclea in Pontus do vse it against Wolfes bane in stead of a counterpoison.
The pouder hereof taken in pils with a fig, mollifieth the bellie: it wasteth away the hardnesse [ E] of the paps: it healeth wounds, it cureth putrified vlcers being applied with hony: and these things the first ground Pine doth performe, so doth the other two: but not so effectually, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Dioscorides.
Clusius of whom mention was made, hath not said any thing of the Vertues of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Au∣striaca: [ F] but verily I thinke it better by many degrees 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the purposes aforesaid: my coniecture I take from the taste, smell, and comely proportion of this Hearbe, which is more pleasing and familiar vnto the nature of man, than those which wee haue plentifully in our owne Countrey growing.