Vertues and Use.
The Juyce of the common kind of Knot-grass, is most effectuall to stay bleeding* 1.1 at the mouth, being drunke in steeled or red Wine: and the bleeding at the Nose, to be applyed to the Forehead and Temples or to be squirted up into the Nostrils. And no less effectuall to coole and temper that heat of the blood, & stomach and to stay any Flux of the blood or humers, as Lask, Bloodyflux, Womens courses, and Running of the Reins. It is singular good to provoke Urine, helpe the strangurie, and allay the heate that cometh therby; and it is powerful by Urin to expel the Gravell, or stone in the kidneys or Bladder, a dram of the pouder of the Herb being taken in wine for many dayes together: Being boyled in wine and drunke, it is profitable to those that are stung or bitten by venemous creatures, and very effectual to stay al defluxi∣ons of rhewmatick humors upon the stomach, & killeth Worms in the belly or stomack, quie∣teth inward paines that arise from the heat, sharpness & corruption of blood and Choller:* 1.2 The distilled water herof taken by it self, or wth the pouder of the Herb or seed, is very effectual to al the purposes aforesaid, and is accounted as one of the most Soveraign remedies to cool all manner of inflamations, breakings out through heate, hot Swellings, and Impostumations Gangrenes, and Fistulous Cankers, or foule filthy Ulcers, being applyed or put into them; but especially for all sorts of Ulcers and sores happening in the privie parts of men or women. It helpeth all fresh and green Wounds, and speedily helpeth them: The Juyce dropped into the Ears. cleanseth them being soule and having running matter in them.
Saturn seems to me to own the Hearb, and yet some hold the sun, out of doubt 'tis Saturn, it is very prevalent for the premises: as also for btoken Joynts, and Ruptures.