¶ The Vertues.
It is commended by the later Physitions to be good for greene wounds, and old filthy Vlcers [ A] which are not scoured, mundified, and made cleane; it also healeth them, with the iuyce here∣of tempered with honey and May butter, and boyled together to the forme of an Vnguent or salue.
It is much commended, and not without cause, to helpe old aches and pains in the armes, hips, [ B] and legs, boyled in hogs grease to the forme of an ointment.
Moreouer, the decoction hereof gargarised is much set by as a remedie against swellings and [ C] impostumations of the throat, which it wasteth away and throughly healeth.
The leaues stamped very small, and boyled with some hogs grease vnto the consumption of the [ D] iuyce, adding thereto in the end of the boyling a little Masticke and Olibanum, and then strained, taketh away the old ache in the huckle-bones called Sciatica.
‡ The Egyptians (saith Prosper Alpinus) vse the Sea Rag-wort, for many things: for they com∣mend [ E] the decoction made with the leaues thereof against the stone in the kidnies and bladder, as also to helpe the old obstructions of the inward parts, but principally those of the wombe; as also the coldnesse, strangulation, barrennesse, inflation thereof, and it also brings downe the intercep∣ted courses: wherefore women troubled with the mother are much eased by baths made of the leaues and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hereof. ‡