The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
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The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
Author
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
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London :: Printed by Peter Cole,
1652.
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Subject terms
Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35365.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Vertues and Use.
All the parts of the Sloe-Bush are binding,
cooling,* 1.1 and drying, and all effectuall to
stay bleeding at the nose and mouth, or any o∣ther place;
the Lask of the beily, or stomach,
or the Bloody Flux, the two much abounding
of womens Courses, and helpeth to ease the
paines in the sides, bowels, and guts, that
come by over-much scowring, to drink the de∣coction
of the barke of the roots, or more
usually the decoction of the Berries either
fresh or dried. The Conserve is also of very
much use, and most familiarly taken for the
purposes aforesaid: But the distilled water of
the Flowers first steeped in Sack for a night,
and drawne there-from by the heat ofBalne∣um
Angliceabaths, is a most certaineremedy
tried and approved to ease all manner of
gnawings in the stomach, the sides and bowels,
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or any griping pains in any of them, to drink
a smal quantity when the extremety of pain is
upon them: The Leaves also are good to
make Lotions, to gargle and wash the Mouth
and Throat,* 1.2 wherein are Swellings, Sores, or
Kernels, and to stay the Defluxions of Rhewm
to the Eyes or other parts, as also to cool the
heat and Inflamations in them, and to ease
hot pains of the Head, to bath the Forehead
and Temples therewith. The simple distilled
water of the Flowers is very effectual for the
said purposes, and is the condensate Juyce of
the Sloes. The distilled water of the green
Berries is used also for the said effects.
Notes
* 1.1
Binds, cools, dries Bleeding Flux, Bloody Flux, gnawings in bowels and stomach.