¶ The Vertues.
The leaues of this plant do consume and [ A] dissolue cold swellings if they be bruised and applied thereto.
The people of Polonia and Lituania vse [ B] to make drinke with the decoction of this herbe, and leuen or some other thing made of meale, which is vsed in stead of beere and o∣ther ordinarie drinke.
The seede of Cow parsnep drunken, scou∣reth [ C] out flegmaticke matter through the guts, it healeth the iaundice, the falling sick∣nesse, the strangling of the mother, and them that are short winded.
Also if a man be falne into a dead sleepe, [ D] or a sw o ne, the fume of the seed will waken him ag 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
If a pihrenticke or 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [ E] head bee annointed with oile wherein the leaues and roots haue beene sodden, it hel∣peth him very much, and such as be troubled with the head-ache and the lethargie, or sick∣nesse called the forgetfull euill.