¶ The Vertues.
Water Germander cleanseth the intrals, and likewise old vlcers, being mixed with honey ac∣cording [ A] to art: it prouoketh vrine, and bringeth downe the monethly sickenesse: it draweth out of the chest thicke flegme and rotten matter: it is good for an old cough, paine in the sides which commeth of stopping and cold, and for burstings and inward ruptures.
The decoction made in wine and drunke, is good against the bitings of Serpents, and deadly [ B] poysons; and is vsed in antidotes or counterpoysons with good successe.
It is reported to mitigate the paine of the gout, being stamped and applied with a little vineger [ C] and water.
Some affirme, that raw flesh being laid among the leaues of Scordium, may be preserued a long [ D] time from corruption.
Being drunke with wine it openeth the stoppings of the liuer, the milt, kidnies, bladder, and [ E] matrix, prouoketh vrine, helpeth the strangurie, that is, when a man cannot pisse but by drops, and is a most singular cordiall to comfort and make merry the heart.
The pouder of Scordion taken in the quantitie of two drams in meade or honied water, cureth [ F] and stoppeth the bloudy flix, and comforteth the stomacke. Of this Scordium is made a most sin∣gular medicine called Diascordium, which serueth very notably for all the purposes aforesaid.
The same medicine made with Scordium is giuen with very good successe vnto children and [ G] aged people, that haue the small pockes, measles, or the Purples, or any other pestilent sicknesse whatsoeuer, euen the plague it selfe, giuen before the sicknes haue vniuersally possessed the whole body.