¶ The Vertues.
The root, and especially the heart or middle part thereof, boiled or else stamped, and taken with [ A] some kinde of liquor, is thought to be good for those that are wounded, dry-bearen, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉; that haue fallen from some high place: and for the same cause the Empericks do put it in decocti∣ons, which the later Physitians do call wound-drinks: some take it to be so effectuall, and of so great a vertue, as that it can dissolue cluttered bloud remaining in any inward part of the body, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 that it also can expell or driue it out by the wound.
The tender sprigs thereof at their first comming forth are excellent good vnto the purposes a∣foresaid, [ B] and are good to be put into balmes, oyles, and consolidatiues, or healing plaisters, and into vnguents appropriate vnto wounds, punctures, and such like.