¶ The Vertues.
Henbane causeth drow sinesse, and mitigateth all kinde of paine: it is good against hot and [ A] sharpe distillations of the eyes and other parts: it stayeth bleeding and the disease in women: it is applied to inflammations of the stones and other secret parts.
The leaues stamped with the ointment Populcon, made of poplar buds, asswageth the paine of the [ B] gout, and the swellings of the stones, and the tumors of womens brests; and are good to be put into the same ointment, but in small quantitie
Towash the feet in th e 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of Henbane causeth sleepe; or giuen in a clister it doth the [ C] same; and also the often smelling to the floures.
The leaues, seed, and iuyce taken inwardly causeth an vnquiet sleepe like vnto the sleep of drun∣kennesse, [ D] which continueth long, and is deadly to the party.
The seed of white 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is good against the cough, the falling of waterie humours into the [ E] eyes or brest; against the inordinate flux 〈◊〉〈◊〉 womens issues, and all other issues of bloud, taken in the weight of ten graines, with water wherein honey hath beene sodden.
The root boyled with vineger, and the same holden hot in the mouth, easeth the paine of the [ F] teeth. The seed is vsed by Mountibanke Tooth-drawers which runne about the countrie, for to cause wormes come forth of mens teeth, by burning it in a chasing-dish with coles, the party hol∣ding his mouth ouer the fume thereof: but some crafty companions to gaine mony conuey small lute string into the water, persuading the patient that those small creeping beasts came out of his mouth or other parts which he intended to ease.