¶ The Temperature and Vertues.
The white Poplar hath a clensing facultie, saith Galen, and a mixt temperature, consisting of a [ A] waterie warme essence, and also a thin earthy substance.
The barke, as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 writeth, to the weight of an ounce (or as others say, and that more tru∣ly, [ B] of little more than a dram) is a good remedie for the Sciatica or ache in the huckle bones, and for the strangurie.
That this barke is good for the Sciatica, Serenus Sammonicus doth also write: [ C]
The same barke is also reported to make a woman barren, if it be drunke with the kidney of a [ D] Mule, which thing the leaues likewise are thought to perform, being taken after the floures or reds be ended.
The warme iuice of the leaues being dropped into the eares doth take away the paine thereof. [ E]
The rosin or clammy substance of the blacke Poplar buds is hot and dry, and of thin parts, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [ F] and mollifying: it is also fitly mixed acopis & malagmatis: the leaues haue in a manner the like operation for all these things, yet weaker, and not so effectuall, as Galen teacheth.
The leaues and yong buds of blacke Poplar doe asswage the paine of the gout in the hands or [ G] feet, being made into an ointment with May butter.
The ointment made of the buds is good against all inflammations, bruses, squats, falls, and such [ H] like: this ointment is very well knowne to the Apothecaries.
Paulus Aegineta teacheth to make an oile also hereof, called Aegyrinum, or oile of blacke Poplar. [ I]