¶ The Vertues.
It is good for shortnesse of breath, and an old cough, and for such as cannot breathe vnlesse they [ A] hold their necks vpright.
It is of great vertue both giuen in a looch, which is a medicine to be licked on, and likewise pre∣serued, [ B] as also otherwise giuen to purge and void out thicke, tough, and clammie humours, which sticke in the chest and lungs.
The root preserued is good and wholesome for the stomack: being taken after supper it doth not [ C] onely helpe digestion, but also keepeth the belly soluble.
The iuice of the same boiled, driueth forth all kinde of wormes of the belly, as Pliny teacheth: who also writeth in his twentie booke, and fift chapter, the same being chewed fasting, doth 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the teeth.
The root of Elecampane is with good successe mixed with counterpoisons: it is a remedie a∣gainst [ D] the bitings of serpents, it resisteth poison: it is good for them that are bursten, and troubled with cramps and convulsions.
Some also affirme, that the decoction thereof, and likewise the same beaten into powder and [ E] mixed with honie in manner of an ointment, doth clense and heale vp old vlcers.
Galen saith, that herewith the parts are to be made red, which be vexed with long & cold griefs: [ F] as are diuers passions of the huckle bones, called the Sciatica, and little and continual bunnies and loosenesse of certaine ioints, by reason of ouermuch moisture.