Blagraves astrological practice of physick discovering the true way to cure all kinds of diseases and infirmities ... being performed by such herbs and plants which grow within our own nation ... : also a discovery of some notable phylosophical secrets worthy our knowledge, relating to a discovery of all kinds of evils, whether natural or ... from sorcery or witchcraft, or by being possessed of an evil spirit, directing how to cast forth the said evil spirit out of any one which is possessed, with sundry examples thereof
Blagrave, Joseph, 1610-1682.

S. S.

  • Scabs and Scurfs to heal, alehoof or ground-ivy, black alder-tree, ash-tree-bark, bay, barberries, beets, wood-bittany, bry∣any, bugle, bur-dock, clary sciatica-cresses dock, flaxweed foxgloves, golden-rod, hops, hore-hound, cow-parsnep, pel∣litory of the wall, agrimony, catmint, fumitory, scabious, savin, sene, tobacco, spurge, dodder, elecompane, beech, beets, bloodwort.
  • Scaldings to cure, See Burnings.
  • For a Scaldhead the bark of ash-tree burnt, to ashes, and made into a lye to bath withal doth cure, probatum est
  • Sciatica or hip-gout to cure, alehoof or ground-ivy, angellica, arch-angel, sparagus, burdock, cinkfoile, sciatica-cresses, dock, flaxweed, fumitory, stinking gladwin, groundcel, hen∣bane, St. John's-wort, kidney-wort, or wall penny royal, mustard, nettles, the white poplar, ragwort wild-tansey, asarabacca, broom, lesser centory, goutwort, jack by the hedge, madder, rue, southern-wood, tobacco, time, trefoile, laser-wort, mallowes.
  • Serpents-stingings, or venemous-bitings to cure, adders-tongue, alexanders, asarabacca, calamint, elecompane, sern, aspho∣dil, bittony, buglosse, harts-tongue, sea-holly, horehound, housleek, madder, moss, nettles, piony, bayes, rue, sca∣beous, sperage, sycomore, trefoile, woolfs-bane, burdock, cudweed, germander, scorpion-grass.
  • Spleens, diseases, obstructions- and inward swellings to cure, alehoof or ground-ivy, alexanders arch-angel, asarabacca, Page  108 baum, baise. beets, wood-bitony, calaminnt, cammomil, centaury, dandelion, water-fern, furz-bust-flowers, ger∣mander, stinking gladwin, harts tongue hauk-weed, hops, horehound, ivy, lavender, broom-flowers, marsh mallows, misletoe, mustard, horse-radish, southernwood, ladies-thistle, tormentil, winter-gilly-flowers, woad, marjerom, rocket, tamarisk, time, vervain, wormwood, dittander, dodder of time, angelica rhubarb, scurvy grasse, spleen-tree, sumitory, sene, rosemary, peach-flowers, parsley, sampire, elder-buds.
  • Stomach bad to help, cleanse strength: agrimony, aples, avens, baise, wood-bitony, chervil, costmary, sweet-maudlin, crossewort, endive, elecampane, flower-de-luce, hauke∣weed, hounds-tongue, peach-flowers or leaves, dock ba∣stard, rhubarb, the seed or root, sorrel, currants, angelica, baum, alexander, sweet-marjerom quinces, capers, succo∣ry, dandelion, dodder, jack by the hedge, liquorish, lovage, mints, mosse, young charlock, mustard, tansie, time, wormwood, roses, scurvey grass, horse-radish, vine, cam∣momil, peny-royal, goose-berries, purslain, spinage, let∣tuce, oranges, straw berries, mosse, vine, walnuts, miro∣balans, fennel, rue, Spignel, limmons, Saint Johns wort.
  • Stiches or side-pains to ease: avens, wood-bittony, briony, cammomil, wild-carrots, parsly sage, our ladies thistle, garden valerian, asphodil, birthwort, chervil elecampane, cammomil, fennel, germander, larkspur melilot, misletoe, rupturewort stichwort, trefoil, time, rue vine.
  • For the STONE: saxsfrage, pellitory of the wall, mother of time parsley, radishes, stilled out of milk in a cold still.
  • Stone and Gravel to expel: apples, apricock, bean, bram∣ble, brook lime, broom blossoms, fursh-bush-flowers, bit∣tony, dandelion, baise, burdock, cammomil, carnations, adonis flower, wild carrots, blach-cherries, colombine, cockle cowslips, fetherfew, sorrel, mugwort, pimpernel, cranes-bil, dittany dodder, dropwort, eglantine, fennel, golden-rod, couch-grasse, haws, jack by the hedge, Saint James wort, Saint Johns wort, ladies bed-straw, liver-wort, marsh-mallows, master-wort, maiden-hair, medlar-stones, melilot, mints, mosse, netle, nutmeg, ox-eye, par∣sley, parsnet, pellitory, peny-royal, periwinckle, piony, purslane, violet, radish, rhubarb, spignel, tansie, time, ver∣vain, wolfsbane, trefoil, vine.
  • Page  109Stone in the Kidneys and Reins to expel aromatical reed, bal∣some, beech' birch-tree, bramble, cabbage, dane-wort, gol∣den rod, mayden-hair, parsley penny-royal, rupture-wort, saxifrage, dandelion, furzbush flowers straw-berries, med∣ler-stone, young turnip-leaves, butchers-broom broom, groundsel.
  • Strangury or Pissing stopt to help agrimony angelica, alexan∣ders, rosemary, pimpernel, aples, bazil, bettony, brook∣lime, dandelion, dasies, broom, sweet marjerom, asarabac∣ca, butchers-broom, fetherfew, fennel-root, borrage, bram∣ble, liquorish, centory diptany, dropwort, Eglantine, ger∣mander, stinking gladwin, couch-grass, gromwel, hawk∣weed, hops horse-tail, juniper, lark-spur, mercury, mints, pellitory, spikenard radish, saxifrage, southern wood, tan∣sey, time, tormentil, trefoile, valerian, vine, ground∣sel.
  • Swellings, See Aches hot and cold.
  • Swounings and aintins to cure aromatical reed, bazil bor∣rage, balm, dodder of time mother-wort, sweet marjerom, penny-royal rosemary, angelica, sun-few, vine, cinamon, endive, costmary, tobacco vine, vipers-grass, quinces, cher∣ries.
  • Sinews shrinking to help, cammomil, chickweed, elmpeele, comfry, oyl of trotters, sow-fennel, laserwort, turpen∣tine oyl of young puppies under nine dayes old.
  • Sinews to strengthen, balsom, centory, cowslip, fennel, flow∣er-de-luce Ladies bed-straw, mints, rosemary, sage, pel∣litory, yarrow, tansie, St. Johns's-wort.
  • Spitting of blood to stay▪ clowns-woundwort, borrage, com∣fry, dock, elecompane St. Johns's-wort, inner bark of oak, plantane, sage, bettony, fennel, harts-tongue, red beets, red arch-angel, leeks, long-wort, bramble moss purstain, rib∣wort, sanickle, trefoile, blood-wort, rubarb, shepheards-purse, arrowhead, barberries, almonds, horehound, holly rose.
  • Spots, Freckles, and Pimples in the skin to clear, bazil, bayes, bell-flower, broom blossoms, bryony, elecompane, fether∣few, fumitory, roses, calamint, celandine, coleworts, daffodil, dittander, endive, flower-de-luce, hawk-weed, lovage, onions, parsley, penne-royal, radish, roket, rose∣mary, savin, scurvey grass, Solomon's-seal, strawberries, tansie, vervain, wheat.
  • Sleep to procure, anet, barley cowslips, endive, lettuce, saffron, white poppy, purslain, roses, sensitive herbe, Page  110 tobacco, virgins bower, wormwood, henbane, hemlock, lil∣ly, parsley, nightshade, nutmeg, onions, herb true-love, vine, mandrake, moss, dandelion, plowmans-spikenard, stinking gladwin.
  • Scurvey to cure, brooklime, water-cresses, horse-radish, cuc∣kow-flower, danewort, juniper, scurvy-grass, horse-taile, fluellin, vine, wayfaring-tree, tamarinds, cloud-berries, coffe.
  • Shingles to cure, cinquefoile housleek, rue, pellitory, olive-tree, Egyptian-thorne, lentil, cow, parsnip, plantane.
  • Surfeits to cure, angelica, coleworts, liverwort, wormwood, broom-blossoms, red poppy, saffron violets, red roses, clove-gillie-flowers, aniseed, coleander, figs, reasons.