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¶ The Vertues, which chiefely belong to the last described.
The decoction hereof is profitably giuen to those that be scabbed and haue filthy skinnes; and [ A] likewise to such as haue their spleen and liuer stopped or swolne: for it taketh away the stoppings of both those intrals, and also of the gall: wherefore it is good for them that haue the jaundice, especially somewhat after the beginning.
The herbe boyled in wine or water is singular good against tertian Feuers. [ B]
The decoction drunke, and the leaues outwardly applied, do heale all wounds both inward and [ C] outward.
‡ Fuchsius saith that the second is very effectuall against poyson. And Gesner in his Epistles [ D] affirmeth, that he boyled about a pugil of the fibres of the root of this plant in wine, and drunke it, which an houre after gaue him one stoole, and afterwards twelue vomits, whereby he cast vp much flegme: so that it workes (saith he) like white Hellebor, but much more easily and safely, and it did me very much good. ‡