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.
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Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
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London :: Printed by Peter Cole,
1652.
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Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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VVall-Flowers, or Winter
Gilly-flowers.
THe Garden kinds are so wel known
that they need no Description.
Description.
The common single Wall-Flow∣ers
which grow wild abroad, hath sundry smal
long, narrow, and dark green Leaves, set
without order upon smal round whitish wood∣dy
Stalks which bear, at the tops diverse single
yellow Flowers one above another, every one
having four Leaves apiece, and of a very
sweet scent: after which come long Pods con∣taining
reddish Seed. The Root is white,
hard and threddy.
Place.
It groweth upon old Church Walls, and
old Walls of many Houses, and on the other stone
Walls in diverse places. The other sorts in
Gardens only.
Time.
All the single kinds do Flower many times
in the end of Autumn, and if the Winter be
mild, all the Winter long, but especially in the
Months of February, March, and April, and
until the heat of the Spring do spend them:
But the double kinds continue not Flowring
in that manner all the yeer along, although
they Flower very early somtimes, and in some
places very late.
Vertues and Use.
Galen in his seventh Book of Simple Me∣dicines
saith, That the yellow Wall-flowers
worketh more powerfully than any of the o∣ther
kinds, and is therefore of more use in
Physick; It clenseth the Blood and freeth the
Liver and Reins from Obstructi∣ons, provo∣keth
Womens Courses, expelleth the Secon∣dine
descriptionPage 235
and dead Child, helpeth the hardness and
pains of the Mother, and of the Spleen also,
stayeth Inflamations and Swellings, comfor∣teth
and strengthneth any weak part, or out of
Joynt: helpeth to clense the Eyes from misti∣ness
and Films on them, and to clense foul
and filthy Ulcers in the Mouth or any other
part, and is a singular Remedy for the Gout,
and all Aches and Pains in the Joynts and Si∣news.
A Conserve made of the Flowers is u∣sed
for a Remedy both for the Apoplexie and
Palsey.