Vertues and use.
The Decoction of the former of these being drunk is good to fret and break the Stone, and provokes urin, stayeth inward bleedings, and healeth inward Wounds:* 1.1 The Herb or Flo∣wer bruised and put up into the Nostrils, stay∣eth their bleeding likewise: The Flowers and the Herb made into an Oyl by being set in the Sn••, and changed after it hath stood ten or twelve daies; or into an Ointment being boyled in Axungia or Sallet-Oyl with some Wax melted therein after it is strained; either the Oyl made therof or the Ointment do help Burnings* 1.2 with Fire, or Scalding with Water: the same also, or the Decoction of the Herb and Flower is good to bath the Feet of Tra∣vellers and Lacquies whose long running cau∣seth weariness and stifness in their Sinews and Joynts; If the Decoction be used warm, and the Joynts afterwards anointed with the Oint∣ment. It helpeth the dry Scab, and the Itch in Children: And the Herb with the white Flo∣wer is also very good for the Sinews, Arteries, and Joynts to comfort and strengthen them af∣ter travel, cold and pains.
They are both Herbs of Venus, and therfore strengthen the patrs both internal and exter∣nal which she rules.