Vertues and use.
Mars owns the Shrub, and presents it to the use of my Country-men to purge their Bodies of Choller.* 1.1 The inner Rind of the Barberry Tree boyled in White-Wine and a quarter of a pint drunk each morning, is an excellent reme∣dy to clense the Body of Chollerick Humors, and free it from such Diseases as Choller can∣seth, such be Scabs, Itch, Tetters, Ringworms, yellow Jaundice, Boils, &c. It is excellent for hot Agues, Burnings, Scaldings, heat of Bloud, heat of the Liver, Bloudy-flux, for the Berries are as good as the Bark, and more pleasing; they get a man a good stomach to his victuals, by strengthning the attractive faculty, which is under Mars, as you see more at large in the latter end of my Ephemeris for the year 1651. The Hair washed with the Ly made of the A∣shes of the Tree and Water, 'twil make it turn yellow, viz. of Mars his own colour. The Fruit and Rind of the Shrub, the Flowers of Broom and of H••ath, or Furz, clens the Body of Chol∣ler by Sympathy, as the Flowers, Leaves and Bark of the Peach-Tree do by Antipathy; be∣cause these are under Mars, that under Ve∣nus.