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Those of our time do vse the floures in sallads, to exhilerate and make the mind glad. There be [ A] also many things made of them, vsed euery where for the comfort of the heart, for the driuing away of sorrow, and encreasing the ioy of the minde.
The leaues boyled among other pot-herbes do much preuaile in making the belly soluble, they [ B] being boyled in honied water be also good against the roughnesse of the throat, and hoarsenesse, as Galen teacheth.
The leaues and floures of Borage put into Wine make men and women glad and merry, and [ C] driue away all sadnesse, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and melancholy, as Dioscorides and Pliny affirme.
Syrrup made of the floures of Borage comforteth the heart, purgeth melancholy, and quieteth [ D] the phrenticke or lunaticke person.
The floures of Borage made vp with sugar do all the aforesaid with greater force and effect. [ E]
Syrrup made of the iuyce of Borage with sugar, adding thereto pouder of the bone of a Stags [ F] heart, is good against swouning, the cardiacke passion of the heart, against melancholy and the fal∣ling sicknesse.
The root is not vsed in medicine: the leaues eaten raw ingender good bloud, especially in those [ G] that haue been lately sicke.