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♃ Dock.
THese are so wel known many kinds of them, that I shall not trouble you with a Description of them; my Book grows big too fast.
Vertues and use.
All of them have a kind of cooling (but not all alike) drying quality the Sorrels being most cold, and the Bloodworts most drying: Of the Bur-Dock I have spoken already by himself. The Seed of most of the other kinds whether of the Garden or Field, do stay Lasks or Fluxes* 1.1 of all sorts, the loathings of the Stomach through Choller, and is helpful to those that spit Blood. The Roots boyled in Vinegar helpeth the Itch, Scabs, and breakings out of the Skin, if it be bathed therwith. The Distilled Water of the Herb and Roots hath the same Vertue, and clenseth the Skin of Freckles, Morphews, and all other Spots and Discolourings therin.
All Docks being boyled with Meat, make it boyled the sooner: Beside Bloodwort is excee∣ding strengthning to the Liver, and procures good Blood, being as wholsom a Pot Herb as any grows in a Garden, yet such is the nicity of our times forsooth, that Women will not put it in the Pot becaus it makes the Pottage black, Pride and Ignorance (a couple of Mon∣sters in the Creation) preferring Nicity be∣fore Health.