♀ ♈. Cowslips.
BOth the Wild and Garden Cowslips are so wel known that I wil neither trouble my self nor the Reader with any description of them.
Time.
They Flower in April and May.
Vertues and Vse.
The Flowers are held to be more effectual than the Leavs, and the Roots of little use.
An Oyntment being made with them taketh away Spots, and Wrinkles of the Skin, Sun∣burning* 1.1 and Freckles, and ads Beauty excee∣dingly: They remedy all infirmities of the Head coming of Heat and Wind, as Vertigo, Ephialtes, fals apparitions, Phrensies, Falling∣sickness, Palsies, Convulsions, Cramps, Pains in the Nerves: The Roots eas pains in the Back and Bladder, and open the passages of Urine: The Leavs are good in Wounds, and the Flowers take away trembling: If the Flo∣wers be not well dried and kept in a warm place, they wil soon putrifie and look green, have a special eye over them: if you let them see the Sun once a Month, it wil do neither the Sun nor them harm.
Becaus they strengthen the Brain and Nerves, and remedy Palsies the Greeks gave them the name Prralisis; The Flowers pre∣served or conserved, and the quantity of a Nutmeg eaten every morning, is a sufficient Dose, for inward Diseases, but for Wounds Spots, Wrinkles, and Sunburning, an Oynt∣ment is made of the Leavs and Hogs greas.
Venus laies claim to the Herb as her own, and it is under the Sign Aries, and our City Dames know wel enough the Oyntment or Distilled Water of it, adds Beauty, or at least restores it when it is lost.