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.

The decoction of the roots of Cinkfoile drunke, cureth the bloudy flixe, and all other fluxes of [ A] the belly, and stancheth all excessiue bleeding.

The iuice of the roots while they be yong and tender, is giuen to be drunke against the diseases [ B] of the liuer and lungs, and all poison.

The same drunke in Mead or honied water, or wine wherein some pepper hath been mingled, cu∣reth [ C] the tertian or quartaine feuers: and being drunken after the same manner for thirty daies toge∣ther, it helpeth the falling sicknesse.

The leaues vsed among herbes appropriate for the same purpose, cureth ruptures and burstings [ D] of the rim, and guts falling into the cods.

The iuice of the leaues drunken doth cure the Iaundice, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the stomacke and [ E] liuer.

The decoction of the roots held in the mouth doth mitigate the paine of the teeth, staieth putri∣faction, [ F] and all putrified vlcers of the mouth, helpeth the inflammations of the almonds, throat, and the parts adioining, it staieth the laske, and helpeth the bloudy flix.

The root boiled in vineger is good against the shingles, appeaseth the rage of fretting sores, and [ G] cankerous vlcers.

It is reported, that foure branches hereof cureth quartaine agues, three tertians, and one branch [ H] quotidians: which things are most vaine and sriuolous, as likewise many other such like, which are not onely found in Dioscorides, but also in other Authors, which we willingly withstand.

Ortolpho Morolto a learned Physition, commended the leaues being boiled with water, and some [ I] Lignum vitae added therto, against the falling sicknesse, if the patient be caused to sweat vpon the ta∣king thereof. He likewise commendeth the extraction of the roots against the bloudy flix.