The herball or Generall historie of plantes. Gathered by Iohn Gerarde of London Master in Chirurgerie very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Iohnson citizen and apothecarye of London

¶ The Vertues.

Being eaten, as Dioscorides saith, boyled with Perywinkles, it maketh the body soluble, doing it [ A] by a kinde of cleansing qualitie: it also prouoketh vrine, and expelleth stones out of the kidneyes: being boyled with barley creame it bringeth vp tough humours that sticke in the chest, as it is thought.

Being stamped, and the iuyce put vp into the nosthrils, it stoppeth the bleeding of the nose: the [ B] iuyce is good against the inflammation of the Vuula.

The seed of Nettle stirreth vp lust, especially drunke with Cute: for (as Galen saith) it hath in it [ C] a certaine windinesse.

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It concocteth and draweth out of the chest raw humors. [ D]

It is good for them that cannot breathe vnlesse they hold their necks vpright, and for those that [ E] haue the pleurisie, and for such as be sick of the inflammation of the lungs, if it be taken in a looch or licking medicine, and also against the troublesome cough that children haue, called the Chin∣cough.

Nicander affirmeth that it is a remedie against the venomous qualitie of Hemlocke, Mushroms, [ F] and Quick-siluer.

And Apollodoris saith that it is a counterpoyson for Henbane, Serpents, and Scorpions. [ G]

As Pliny witnesseth, the same Author writeth, that the oyle of it takes away the stinging which [ H] the Nettle it selfe maketh.

The same grossely powned, and drunke in white wine, is a most singular medicine against the [ I] stone either in the bladder or in the reines, as hath beene often proued, to the great ease and com∣fort of those that haue been grieuously tormented with that maladie.

It expelleth grauell, and causeth to make water. [ K]

The leaues of any kinde of Nettle, or the seeds, do worke the like effect, but not with that good [ L] speed and so assuredly as the Romane Nettle.