Vertues and Use.
The Juyce or the distilled water being drunk is very effectual for al Inflamations* 1.1 and unna∣tural heats, to cool a fainting hot Stomach, or a hot Liver or the Bowels: The bruised Herb or the place bathed with the Juyce or distilled Water thereof and outwardly applied healeth Pimples, Redness, St. Anthonies Fire, and o∣ther outward heats and Inflamations. The said Juyce or Water helpeth much also to heal sore Kidneys, torn or fretted by the Stone, or exulcerated within, and easeth the p••ns; It also provoketh Urine, and is available for the Dropsie, and helpeth to break the Stone, coo∣ling the Inflamed parts and other pains of the Bowels, and the bloody Flux; It is singular good to cool the painful Piles, or Hemorrhoi∣dal Veins, the Juyce being used as a Bath un∣to them, or made into an Oyntment: It is no less effectual to give eas of pains to the hot Gout,, the Sciatica, and the Inflamations and Swellings in the Cods; It helpeth the Ker∣nels or Knots in the Neck or Throat, called the Kings Evil; healeth Kibes and Chilblains if they be bathed with the Juyce, or anointed with an Oyntment made thereof, and some of the skin of the Leaf laid upon them; It is al∣so used in green Wounds to stay the Blood, and to heal them quickly.
Venus challengeth the Herb, under Libra.