♃ ♌ Borrage & Bugloss.
THese are so wel known to be Inhabitants in every Garden, that I ••old it needless to describe them.
Time.
They flower in June and July, and the Seed is ripe shortly after.
Vertues and use.
They are very Cordial. The Leaves or Roots are to very good purpose used in putrid and Pestilential Feavers,* 1.1 to defend the Heart, and hlp to resist and expel the Poyson, or the Venom of other Creatures; the Seed is of the like effect; and the Seed and Leavs are good to encrease Milk in Womens Breasts: The Leavs, Flowers and Seed, all, or any of them are good to expel Pensiveness and Melanchol∣ly: it helpeth to clarifie the Bloud, and miti∣gate heat in Feavers. The Juyce made into a Syrup prevaileth much to all the purposes a∣foresaid, and is put with other cooling, open∣ing, clensing. Herbs, to open obstructions, and help the yellow-Jaundice,* 1.2 and mixed with Fu∣mitory, to cool, clens, and temper the Blood, therby it helpeth the Itch, Ringworms; and Tetters, or other spreading Scabs* 1.3 or Sores. The Flowers candied or made; into a Con∣serve are helping in the former causes, but are chiefly used as a Cordial, and is good for those that are weak with long sickness, and to com∣fort the Heart and Spirts of those that are in a consumption, or troubled wth often swoonings or passions of the Heart: The Distilled Wa∣ter is no less effectual to all the purposes afore∣said, and helpeth the redness and inflamati∣on of the Eyes being washed therewith The dried Herb is never used, but the green; yet the Ashes therof boyled in Mead, or Honyed Water is available against Inflamations and Ulcers in the Mouth or Throat, to wash and gargle it therewith. The Roots of Bugloss are effectual being made into a licking Electuarie for the Cough, and to condensate thin flegm, and Rhewmatick Distillations upon the Lungs.
They are both Herbs of Jupiter; and under Leo, both great Cordials, great strengthners of Nature.