Vertues and Use.
The Juyce of Hors-Radish given in drink is held to be very effectual for the Scurvy.* 1.1 It killeth the Worms in Children being drunk, and also laid upon the Belly. The Root brui∣sed and laid to the place grieved with the Scia∣tica, Joynt-ach, or the hard Swellings of the Liver and Spleen. doth wonderfully help them all. The Distilled water of the Herb and Roots is more familiar to be taken with a lit∣tle Sugar for all the purposes aforesaid.
Garden Radishes are in wantonness by the Gentry eaten as Sallet, but they breed but scurvy Humors in the Stomach, and corrupt the Blood, and then send for a Physitian as fast as you can, this is one caus, makes the owners of such nice Pallars so unhealthful, yet for such as are troubled with the Gravel, Stone,* 1.2 or stoppage of Urine, they are good Physick if the Body be strong that takes them, you may make the Juyce of the Roots into a Syrup if you pleas for that use, they purge by Urine ex∣ceedingly.
I Know not what Planet they are under, I think none of all the Seven will own them.