Approoved medicines and cordiall receiptes with the natures, qualities, and operations of sundry samples. Very commodious and expedient for all that are studious of such knowledge.

MEDICINES Colde and Dry in the second degree. (Book 2)

OXYCANTHA, Berberis vulgò. The Barbery, or Piperedge tree.

THe fruite of this tree is stiptike, betwixte moyst & dry. Although it be colde in the seconde degree, it is not to be taken inwards but to the vtter partes: it doth mollifie and is repercussiue: and is good against cholerick swellinges with oyle of Roses or vyneger: it helpeth the ache of the Joyntes of hoate humors.

Balaustium. The floure of the wilde Pomgranate.

THis is very stiptike or bynding: dryed to Powder it healeth excoriations, and vlcerations, and spitting of bloude: and is good agaynst the bloudy Fluxe, and all o∣ther Fluxes.

Plantage, Planteyne.

PLanteyne is astringent, and byndinge: good agaynst putrified and malicious vl∣cers and soares: agaynst the bloudy Flux, and all other Fluxes: the roote & the seede bee of the same vertue, and the seede is more subtile. The Leaues, Roote, and Fruite 〈◊〉〈◊〉 good agaynst o••ilations of the Lyuer and Kydneis, and specially the Seede, for it is some what abstersiue.

Rhus, Simiake, Curriers berries.

THys seede is very stiptike & byndinge in taste, stayeth the bloudy Flux, and all 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Fluxes.

Rhamnus, Christes throne.

THis a certayne kynde of thorne why〈…〉〈…〉 healeth cholerike inflamations, & swel∣linges, & vlcerations called herpes which run from place to place.

Solam, Satinum, Solatrum v••lg••. Night shade, or Dawle.

THe Gardein Nightshade is sometym taken wyth meaces: in Playsters it is

good against hoa•• and cholerike swellings: and agaynst vlcers that spreade from place to place called herpes.

Halicacabus, Uesicaria, Alkakenge, or winter Cherry.

ALkakenge is of the same vertue, and strength that Nightshade is: the fruite of it prouoketh vryne.

Solanum Somniferum, Sleepy Dawle.

THis kinde groweth by the sea syde: the weight of a dramme of the rynde of it 〈…〉〈…〉unke in wyne prouoketh sleepe: the seede of it prouoketh vryne greatly, and therefore ••ij. berries of the fruite are geuen agaynst 〈…〉〈…〉opsies, more than xij. giuen, make a man madde. Some thinke this to be the bearve ••ee call Dawle, but the description seem∣eth not to agree.

Solanum furiosum, Mad Dawle.

THis kynde is not to be taken in wardes, for it maketh a man madde, but in plai∣••ers it healeth vlcers.

Ribes, Gasell.

THis fruite doth refrigerate, and comfort the hoat stomacke: asswageth thirst: stop∣eth ••omits, and the Flux of the belly.

Acacia, The fruite of the Aegyptian thorne.

THis Tree groweth in Aegypt: the tree, the Leaues, and the Juyce 〈◊〉〈◊〉 st••ptike and byndinge in taste: th•• Juyce is the parte most vsed in ph•• sicke: if it be washed it is colde in the second degree, vnwashed in the first: the Juyce 〈◊〉〈◊〉 good for eyes that be inflamed, and agains•• hoate Cholericke inflamations: it healt•• vlcerations in the mouth, and stopeth a〈…〉〈…〉 maner of Fluxes: because we lacke the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cacia, wee vse in steede of the Juice of it, th〈…〉〈…〉 Juyce of Slowes or Bulleis.

Omphacium, Agresta vulgò, Verinice.

THis is the Juice of the wilde grape, it colde in the second degree and, dry in th〈…〉〈…〉 thirde, vynding and stiptike: it is good 〈◊〉〈◊〉

excorfations of the mouth mixed with bun∣〈…〉〈…〉 or'Must: mixed with Upneger, it is good agaynste colde vlcers and soares, that doe ••••te and run from place to place.

Nypmhaea, Nenuphar, The water Lilly.

BOth roote and seede of the water Lilly doe dry, and stay the rhewmes of the sto∣macke, and nature or seede that voydeth vn∣willingly in dreames or other wayes: and also velpe the bloudy Fluxe. That kynde which bath the white roote is more stron∣ger: in so much that it stayeth the Flux in women: both kyndes be abstersiue, but the kynde which hath the blacke roote, is more abstersiue.

Phillitis, Lingua Ceruina. Harts tounge.

THis is thought to be out ••arts tounge: the leaues hee druuke in Wyne agaynst the byting of serpentes: agaynst the blou∣dy Fluxe, and other Fluxes.