Pharmacopœia Londinensis, or, The London dispensatory further adorned by the studies and collections of the Fellows, now living of the said colledg ... / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.

HERBS AND THEIR LEAVES.

A Brotanum mas, foemina. Southernwood, male and foemale. Is hot and dry in the third degree, resists poyson, kils worms, pro∣vokes lust; outwardly in plaisters, it dissolves cold swellings, and helps the bitings of vene∣mous beasts, makes hair grow: take not above half a drachm at a time in pouder.

Absinthium &c. Wormwood. Its several sorts, are all hot and dry in the second or third degrees, the common Wormwood is thought to be hottest, they all help weakness of the stomach, clense Choller, kill Worms, open Stoppings, help Surfets, cleer the Sight, resist Poyson, clense the Blood, and secures cloaths from Moths.

Abugilissa &c. Alkanet. The Leaves are something drying and binding, but inferior in vertue to the Roots, to which I refer you.

Acetosa. Sorrel. Is moderately cold and dry, binding, cutteth tough humors, cools the brain, liver, and stomach, cools the blood in Feavers, and provokes apetite.

Acanthus. Bears-breech, or Branch ursine. Is temperate, something moist. See the root.

Adiantum, album, nigrum. Maiden hair, white and black. They are temperate, yet dry∣ing, white Maiden hair is that we usually call Wall-rue; they both open obstructions, clense the breast and lungs of gross slimy humors, pro∣voke urine, help ruptures and shortness of wind.

Adiantum Aureum, Politricum. Golden Maiden-hair; its temperature and vertues are the same with the former; helps the Spleen; burned, and Ly made with the Ashes, keeps the hair from falling off from the head.

Agrimonia. Agrimony. Galens Eupatorium:* 1.1 it is hot and dry in the first degree; binding, it* 1.2 amends the infirmities of the liver, helps such as* 1.3 piss blood, helps inward wounds, opens obstru∣ctions; outwardly applied it helps old sores,* 1.4 ulcers &c. Inwardly it helps the Jaundice and the spleen: You may either take a drachm of this or that following at a time inwardly in white, or boyl the herb in white Wine and drink the decoction.

Ageratum. Mesue his Eupatorium. Maud∣lein. Is hot and dry in the second degree, pro∣vokes urine and the terms, dries the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness, and profits such as have a cold, weak liver; outwardly ap∣plied, it takes away the hardness of the matrix, and fills hollow ulcers with flesh.

Agnus Castus &c. Chast-tree. The Leaves are hot and dry in the third degree; expel wind, consume the seed, cause Chastity being only born about one, it dissolves swellings of the Cods being applied to them, Headach, Lethargy. Al∣so Dioscorides saith a branch of it preserves a traveller from weariness.

Alleluja, Lujula &c. Wood Sorrel. It is of the temperature of other Sorrel, and held to be more cordial; cools the blood, helps ulcers in the mouth, hot defluctions upon the lungs, wounds, ulcers &c.

Alcea. Vervain-Mallow. The root helps* 1.5 fluxes and burstness.* 1.6

Allium. Garlick. Hot and dry in the fourth degree, troublesom to the stomach, it duls the sight, spoils a cleer skin, resists poyson, easeth the pains of the teeth, helps the bitings of mad dogs and venemous beasts, helps ulcers, leprosies, pro∣vokes urine, is exceeding opening, and profi∣table for dropsies.

Althaea &c. Marsh-Mallows. Are modera∣tely hot and drier than other Mallows; they help degestion, and mitigate pain, ease the pains of the stone, and in the sides. Use them as you were taught in the roots whose vertues they have, and both together will do better.

Alsine. Chickweed. Is cold and moist with∣out* 1.7 any binding, aswages swelling, and comforts the sinnews much, and therefore is good for such as are shrunk up, it dissolves Aposthumes, hard swellings and helps mangy hands and legs, out∣wardly applied in a pultis.

Alchymilla. Ladies-Mantle: is hot and dry, some say in the second degree, some in the third: Outwardly it helps wounds, reduceth womens breasts that hang bagging: inwardly, helps brui∣ses, and ruptures, staies vomiting, and the whites in women, and is very profitable for such women as are subject to miscarry through cold and moisture.

Alcanna. Privet; hath a binding quality, helps ulcers in the mouth, is good against bur∣nings and scaldings, cherisheth the nerves or sinnews: boyl it in white Wine to wash your mouth, and in hogs grease for burnings and scaldings.

Amaracus, Majorana. Marjoram. Some say 'tis hot and dry in the second degree, some ad∣vance it to the third. Sweet Marjoram, is an ex∣cellent remedy for cold diseases in the brain, being only smelled to: helps such as are given to much sighing, easeth pains in the belly, provokes urine, being taken inwardly; You may take a drachm of it at a time in pouder. Outwardly in Oyls or Salves, it helpeth Sinnews that are shrunk, Limbs out of joint, all aches and

swellings coming of a cold cause.

Angelica. Is hot and dry in the third degree, openeth, digesteth maketh thin, strengthens the heart, helps fluxes, and loathsomness of meat, it is an enemy to poyson and pestilence, provokes the term in women, and brings away the after∣birth. You may take a drachm at a time in pou∣der.

Anagallis, mas, foemina. Pimpernel, male and foemale. They are something hot and dry, and of such a drawing quality that they draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh, amend the* 1.8 sight, clense ulcers, help infirmities of the liver and reins.

Anethum. Dill, is hot and dry in the second degree. Dioscorides saith, it breeds milk in Nur∣ses. But Galen he denies it: Howsoever, it staies vomiting, easeth hiccoughs aswageth swellings, provokes Urine, helps such as are troubled with the fits of the mother, and digests raw humors.

Apium. Smallage: So it is commonly used; but indeed all Parsly is called by the name of A∣pium, of which this is one kind. It is somewhat hotter and drier than Parsly, and more efficaci∣ous; it opens stoppings of the liver, and spleen, clenseth the blood, provokes the terms, helps a cold stomach to digest its meat, and is singular good against the yellow Jaundice. Both Smal∣lage and Clevers may be well used in pottage in the morning instead of Herbs.

Aparine. Goose-grass, or Clevers; they are* 1.9 meanly hot and dry, clensing; helps the bitings of venemous beasts, keeps mens bodies from gro∣wing* 1.10 too fat, helps the yellow jaundice, staies* 1.11 bleeding, fluxes, and helps green wounds.* 1.12

Aspergula odorata. Woodroof: Cheers the heart, makes men merry, helps melancholy, and opens the stoppings of the liver.

Aquilegia. Columbines; help sore throats, are of a drying, binding quality.

Argentina. Silver-weed, or Wild Tansie: cold and dry all most in the third degree; stops Lasks, Fluxes, and the Terms, good against Ul∣cers, the Stone, and inward Wounds, it stops the immoderate Flux of the Terms in women, if it be but worn in their shoos: easeth gripings in the belly, fastneth loose teeth; outwardly it takes away Freckles, Morphew, and Sunburning, it takes away Inflamations; and bound to the wrests stops the violence of the fits of an ague.

Artanita. Sow-bread: hot and dry in the third degree; it is so dangerous a purge that I dare not take it my self, therefore would I not advise others: outwardly in Oyntments it takes away Freckles, Sunburning, and the marks which the Smal Pocks leave behind them: dangerous for women with child, yea so dangerous, that both Dioscorides and Pliny say, it will make a woman miscarry if she do but stride over it.

Aristolochia, longa, rotunda. Birthwort long and round. See the Roots.

Artemisia. Mugwort; is hot and dry in the second degree; binding: an herb apropriated to the foemine sex, it brings down the terms, brings away both birth and after birth, easeth pains in the matrix. You may take a drachm at a time.

Asparagus. See the Roots.

Asarum &c. Asarabacca; hot and dry; pro∣vokes vomiting, and urine, and are good for dropsies; they are corrected with Mace or Cin∣namon.

A••riplex &c. Orach, or Arrach; it is cold in the first degree, and moist in the second, saith Galen, and makes the belly soluble. Dioscorides saith, they cure the yellow Jaundice. Lycus Neop saith, they help such as have taken Cantha∣rides. Mathiolus saith, (o 1.13) it purgeth upwards. and downwards. Hypocrates saith, it cools hot aposthumes, and St. Anthonies fire. It is cer∣tainly an admirable remedy for the fits of the mother and other infirmities of the matrix, and therefore the Latins call it Vulvaria.

Auricula muris, major. Mouse ear, hot and dry, of a binding quality, it is admirable to heal wounds, inward or outward, as also ruptures or burstness, Edg-tools quenched in the juyce of it, will cut Iron without turning the edg, as easy as they will lead, and lastly it helps the swelling of the Spleen, Coughs, and Consumptions of the lungues.

At••ractilis hirsuta. Wild Bastard-saffron, Distaff-thistle, or Spindle-thistle; is dry and* 1.14 moderately digesting, helpeth the biting of ve∣nemous* 1.15 beasts. Mesue saith, it is hot in the first degree, and dry in the second, and cleanseth the breast and lungues of tough flegm: but if the Colledg do intend Carduus Bened. by this, we shall talk with that by and by.

Balsamita &c. Costmary, Alecost: See Maudlin, of which I take this to be one sort or kind.

Barba jovis, sedum majus. Housleek or Sen∣green: cold in third degree, profitable against the Shingles and other hot creeping ulcers, in∣flamations, St. Anthonies fire, frenzyes, it cools and takes away corns from the toes being bathed with the juyce of it, and a skin of the leaf laid over the place, stops fluxes, helps scalding and burning.

Bardana. Clot-bur, or Burdock, temperately dry and wasting, something cooling, it is held to be a good remedy against shrinking of the sin∣news, they ease pains in the bladder, provoke u∣rine. Also Mizaldus saith that a leaf applied to the top of the head of a woman draws the Ma∣trix upwards, but applied to the soles of the feet draws it downwards, and is therefore an admi∣rable remedy for suffocations, precipitations, and dislocations of the Matrix, if a wise man have but the using of it.

Beta, alba, nigra, rubra. Beets, white, black, and red, Black Beets I have, as yet, as little skill in as knowledg of. The white are something colder and moister than the red, both of them loosen the belly, but have little or no nourish∣ment. Simeon Sethi tells a large story of several diseases they breed in the stomach. I scarce be∣leeve him. This is certain, the white, provoke to stool, and are more clensing, open stoppings

of the liver and spleen, help the vertigo or swim∣ming in the head. The red stay fluxes, help the immoderate flowing of the terms in women, and are good in the yellow Jaundice.

Benedicta Carrophyllata. Avens: hot and dry, help the chollick and rawness of the stomach, stitches in the sides, help bruises, and take away clotted blood in any part of the body.

Betonica vulgaris. Common or wood Betony; hot and dry in the second degree, helps the fal∣ling* 1.16 sickness, and all headaches coming of cold, clenseth the breast and lungs, opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, as the Rickets, &c. pro∣cures appetite, helps sour belchings, provokes urine, breaks the stone, mitigates the pains of the reins and bladder, helps Cramps and Con∣vulsions, resists Poyson, helps the Gout, such as piss blood, madness and headach, kills worms, help bruises, and clenseth women after their la∣bor. You may take a drachm of it at a time in white Wine, or any other convenient liquor proper against the Disease you are afflicted with.

Betonica Pauli &c. Pauls Betony, or male Lluellin, to which ad Elatine or foemale Lluel∣lin which comes afterwards; they are pretty tem∣perate, stop defluxions of humors that fall from the head into the eyes, are profitable in wounds, helps filthy foul eating Cankers: Pena tells of one of her Country men, a Shentleman of Wales, who had her nose almost eaten off with the Pocks, yea it was so pitiful sore it had almost brought her to a Leprosie, & her was cured by on∣ly taking her own country Herb Lluellin inward∣ly, and applying the Herb outwardly to the place.

Betonica Coronaria &c. Is Clove Gilliflowers. See the Flowers.

Bellis. Daisies, are cold and moist in the se∣cond degree, they ease all pains, and swellings coming of heat, in Clysters they loose the bel∣ly, are profitable in Feavers, and inflamations of the stones, they take away bruises, and black∣ness and blewness: they are admirable in wounds and inflamations of the lungues or blood.

Blitum. Blites. Some say they are cold and moist, others cold and dry, none mention any great vertues of them.

Borrago. Borrage: hot and moist, comforts the heart, cheers the spirits, drives away sadness and melancholly, they are rather laxative than binding; help swooning and heart-qualms, breed special good blood; help consumptions, madness, and such as are much weakned by sickness.

Bonus Henricus. Good Henry, or all good; hot and dry, clensing, and scouring, inwardly taken it loosens the belly, outwardly, it clenseth old sores and Ulcers.

Botrys. Oak of Jerusalem: hot and dry in the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 degree, helps such as are short-winded, cuts and wasts gross and tough flegm, laid a∣mongst cloaths they preserve them from moths, and give them a sweet smel.

Branca ursina. Bears-breech.

Brionia &c. Briony, white and black: both are hot and dry in the third degree, purge violently, yet are held to be wholsom Physick for such as have Dropsies, Vertigo, or swimming in the Head, Falling sickness &c. Certainly it is a scurvy, strong, troublesom purge, therefore ill to be tampered with by the unskilful; outward∣ly in Oyntments, it takes away freckles, wrinkles, morphow, scars, spots, &c. from the face.

Bursa pastoris. Shepherds-purse; is manifest∣ly cold and dry, though Lobel and Pena thought the contrary; it is binding and stops blood, the terms in women, spiting and pissing of blood, cools inflamations.

Buglossum. Bugloss. * 1.17 Its vertues are the same with Borrage.

Bugula. Bugle, or middle Comfry; is tem∣perate for heat, but very drying, excellent for falls or inward bruises, for it dissolves 〈◊〉〈◊〉 blood, profitable for inward wounds, helps the Rickets and other stoppings of the Liver; out∣wardly it is of wonderful force in curing wounds and ulcers, though festered, as also gangreens and Fistulaes, it helps broken bones, and dis∣locations. (o) 1.18 To conclude, let my Country men esteem it as a Jewel. Inwardly you may take it in pouder a drachm at a time or drink the deco∣ction of it in white Wine, being made into an oyntment with hogs grease, you shall find it ad∣mirable in green wounds.

Buphthalmum &c. Ox eye. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 saith they are commonly used for black Hellebore, to the vertues of which I refer you.

Buxus. Boxtree. The leaves are hot, dry, and binding, they are profitable against the bitings of mad dogs, both taken inwardly, boyled and ap∣plied to the place, besides they are excellent to cure horses of the bots.

Calamintha, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Palustris. Mountain, and Water Calamint. For the Water Calamint; see Mints, than which it is accounted stronger. Mountain Calamint, is hot and dry in the third degree, provokes urine and the terms, hastens the birth in women, brings away the after-birth, helps cramps, convulsions, difficulty of breathing, kills worms, helps the leprosie; outwardly used, it helps* 1.19 such as holds their necks on one side: half a* 1.20 drachm is enough at one time.

Calendula &c. Marigolds. The Leaves are* 1.21 hot in the second degree, and something moist, loosen the belly, the juyce held in the mouth, helps the toothach, and takes away any inflamation, or hot swelling being bathed with it mixed with a little Vineger.

Callitricum. Maiden-hair. See Adianthum.

Caprisolium. Honysuckles: The Leaves are hot, and therfore naught for inflamations of the mouth and throat, for which the ignorant people often give them, and Galen was true in this, let modern Writers write their pleasure. If you chew but a leaf of it in your mouth, experience will tell you, that it is likelier to cause than to cure a sore throat, they provoke urine, and purge by urine, bring speedy delivery to women in travail, yet pro∣cure barrenness, and hinder conception; outwardly they dry up soul ulcers, and clense the face from morphew, sunburning and freckles.

Carduncellus &c. Groundsel. Cold and moist according to Tragus, helps the Chollick, and pains or gripings in the belly, helps such as can∣not make water, cleanseth the reins, purgeth Choller and sharp humors, the usual way of ta∣king it is, to boyl it in water with 〈◊〉〈◊〉 and* 1.22 so eat it, I hold it to be a wholsom and harmless purge. Outwardly it easeth womens breasts that are swollen and inflamed, (or as themselves say) have gotten an ague in their breasts, as also infla∣mation of the joynts, nerves, or sinnews.

Carduus B. Mariae. Our Ladies Thistles. They are far more temperate than Carduus Bene∣dictus, open obstructions of the liver, help the Jaundice and Dropsie, provoke Urine, break the Stone.

Carduus Benedictus. In plain English, Blessed Thistle; Though I confess it be better known by* 1.23 the Latin name: it is hot and dry in the second degree, clensing and opening, helps swimming* 1.24 and giddiness in the head, deasness, strengthens the memory, helps griping pains in the belly, kills worms, provokes sweat, expels poyson, helps inflamation of the liver, is very good in pesti∣lences, and the French-pocks; outwardly applied, it ripens Plague-sores, and helps hot swellings, the bitings of mad-dogs, and venemous beasts, and foul filthy ulcers. Every one that can but make a Carduus posset knows how to use it.

Carlina. See the Roots, under the name of white Chameleon.

Corallina. A kind of Sea-Moss: cold, bin∣ding, drying, good for hot gouts, inflamations; also they say it kills worms, and therefore by some is called Maw-wormseed.

Cassutha, cuscuta, potagralini. Dodder. See Epithimum.

Caryophyllata. Avens or Herb Bennet. Hot and dry, they help the Chollick, Rawness of the stomach, Stitches in the sides, Stoppings of the liver, and Bruises.

Cataputia minor. A kind of Spurge: See Ti∣thymalus.

Cattaria, Nepeta. Nep, or Catmints. The vertues are the same with Calaminth.

Cauda Equina. Horse-tail; is of a binding drying quality, cures wounds, and is an admi∣rable remedy for sinnews that are shrunk; yea, Galen saith it cures sinnews though they be cut in sunder: but Columbus holds that is incurable unless they be cut within the Muscle; well then we will take Galen in the charitablest sense. However this is certain, it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the nose, or by wound, stops the Terms in women, Fluxes, Ulcers in the Reins or Bladder, Coughs, Ulcers in the Lungues, Diffi∣culty of breathing.

Caulis, Brassica 〈◊〉〈◊〉, silvestris. Cole∣worts, or Cabbages, Garden and Wild. They are drying and binding, help dimness of the sight, help the spleen, preserve from drunkenness, and help the evil effects of it, provoke the terms; they say, being laid on the top of the head, they draw the matrix upward, and therefore are good for the falling out of the womb. Chrysippus writes a whol treatise of them, and makes them a univer∣sal medicine for every disease in every part of the body.

Centaurium, majus, minus. Centaury the greater and lesser. They say the greater will do wonders in curing wounds: see the Root. The lesser is that which is commonly in Sussex known by the name of Centaury, and indeed so throughout that part of the nation that I have travailed over; a present remedy for the yellow Jaundice, opens stoppings of the liver, gall, and spleen purgeth choller, helps the Gout, cleers the sight, purgeth the stomach, helps the dropsie and green-sickness. It is only the tops and flowers which are useful, of which you may take a drachm inwardly in pouder, or half a handful boiled in posset drink at a time.

Centinodium &c. Knotgrass; cold in the se∣cond* 1.25 degree, helps spitting and pissing of blood,* 1.26 stops the terms and all other fluxes of blood, vo∣miting of blood, Gonorrhaea, or running of Reins, weakness of the back and joints, inflama∣tions of the privities, and such as piss by drops, and it is an excellent remedy for hogs that will not eat their meat. Your only way is to boyl it, it is in its prime about the latter end of July or beginning of August: at which time being ga∣thered it may be kept dry all the yeer.

Ceresolium vulgare & Myrrhis. Common and great Chervil: Take them both together and they are temperately hot and dry, provoke urine, they stir up lust and desire of copulation, com∣fort the heart and are good for old people, help pleurisies and pricking in the sides.

Caepaea, Anagallis aquatica. Brooklime, hot and dry, but not so hot and dry as Water-cresses; Tragus saith they are hot and moist, but the man dreamed waking, they help mangy Horses: see Water-cresses.

Ceterach &c. Spleenwort; moderately hot, wasts and consumes the spleen, in so much that Vitruvius affirms he hath known hogs that have fed upon it, that have had (when they were kil∣led) no spleens at all. It is excellent good for melahcholly people, helps the strangury, provo∣kes urine, and breaks the stone in the bladder. Boyl it and drink the decoction; but because a little boyling will carry away the strength of it in vapours, let it boyl but very little, and let it stand close stopped till it be cold before you strain it out; this is the general rule for all Simples of this nature.

Chamaepitys. Ground-pine; hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, helps the Jaundice, Sciatica, stoppings of the liver, and spleen, pro∣vokes the Terms, clenseth the entrails, dissolves congeled blood, resists poyson, cures wounds and ulcers. Strong bodies may take a dram, and weak bodies half a drachm of it in pouder at a time.

Chamaemelum, sativum, sylvestre. Garden and Wild Chamomel. Garden Chamomel is hot and dry in the first degree, and as gallant a medi∣cine against the stone in the bladder as grows up∣on the earth, you may take it inwardly, I mean the decoction of it, being boyled in white Wine,

or inject the juyce of it into the bladder with a syringe. It expels wind, helps belchings, and potently provokes the terms;used in baths it helps pains in the sides, gripings and gnawings in the belly.

Chamaedris &c. Germander; hot and dry in the third degree; cuts and brings away tough humors, opens stoppings of the liver and spleen, helps coughs and shortness of breath, strangury and stopping of urine and provokes the terms; half a drachm is enough to take at a time.

Chelidonium utrumque. Celondine both sorts. Small Celondine is usually called Pilewort, it is something hotter and dryer than the former, but not in the fourth degree as Galen and Dioscori∣des would have it; they say it helps the Hemor∣rhoids or Piles, by only carrying it about one, (but if it wil not, bruise it and apply it to the grief) and from thence it took its 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Celon∣dine the greater is hot and dry (they say in the third degree) any away used, either the juyce, or made into an Oyl or Ointment, is a great pre∣server of the sight and as excellent an help for sore eyes as any is.

Cinara &c. Artichokes. They provoke lust, and purge by urine.

Cichorium. Succory, to which ad Endive which comes after. They are cold and dry in the second degree, clenfing and opening, they cool the heats of the liver, and are profitable in the yellow Jaundice, and burning Feavers, helps excoria∣tions in the Yard, hot Stomachs; and out∣wardly applied, help hot rewms in the eyes.

Cicuta. Hemlock; Cold in the fourth de∣gree, poysonous; outwardly applied, it helps Priapismus, or continual standing of the Yard, the Shingles, St. Anthonies fire, or any eating Ulcers.

Clematis Daphnoides, Vinca provinca. Per∣uinkle. Hot in the second degree, somthing dry and binding, stops Lasks, spitting of blood, and the Terms in women.

Consolida masor. Comfry. I do not con∣ceave the Leaves to be so vertnous as the Roots,

Consolida media. Bugles, of which before.

Consolida minima. Daizes.

Consilida rubra. Golden Rod: hot and dry in the second degree; clenseth the Reins, pro∣vokes Urin, brings away the Gravel; an admi∣rable herb for wounded people to take inwardly, stops blood &c.

Consolida Regalis. Delphinium. Larks heels, resist poyson, help the bitings of venemous beasts.

Saracenica Solidago. Saracens Consound. Helps inward wounds, sore mouths, sore throats, wasting of the lungues, and liver.

Coronopus. Buchorn-Plantane, or Sea-Plan∣tane: Cold and dry, helpeth the bitings of ve∣nemous* 1.27 beasts, either taken inwardly, or apply∣ed to the wound; helps the Chollick, breaks the Stone.

Cotonaria. Hath got many English names. Cottonweed, Cudweed, Chaffweed, and Petty Cotton. Of a drying and binding nature; boy∣led in Ly, it keeps the head from Nits and Lice; being laid among Cloaths, it keeps them safe from Moths, kils Worms, helps the bitings of venemous beasts; taken in a Tobacco-pipe, it helps Coughs of the lungues, and vehement head∣aches.

Cruciata. Crossewort. (there is a kind of Gentian called also by this name, which I passe by) Is drying and binding, exceeding good for inward or outward wounds, either inwardly ta∣ken, or outwardly applied; and an excellent re∣medy for such as are bursten.

Crassula. Orpine. Very cool: Outwardly u∣sed with Vineger, it cleers the Skin; inwardly taken, it helps gnawings of the stomach and bo∣wels, ulcers in the lungues, bloody flux, and Quinsie in the throat: For which last disease, it is inferior to none: take not too much of it at a time, because of its coolnesse.

Crithamus, &c. Sampler. Hot and dry, helps* 1.28 difficulty of urine, the yellow jaundice, provokes the terms, helps digestion, openeth stoppings of the liver and spleen.

Cucumis Asininus. Wild Cucummers. See E∣laterium.

Cyanus major, minor. Blewbottle, great and small, A fine cooling herb, helps bruises, wounds, broken veins; the juyce dropped into the eye, helps the inflamations thereof.

Cygnoglossum. Hounds-tongue. Cold and dry; applied to the fundament, helps the He∣morroids,* 1.29 healeth wounds, and ulcers, and is a present remedy against the bitings of Dogs, bur∣nings and scaldings. Some say, if you put the herb under your foot, within your stocking, no Dog will bark at you.

Cypressus. Chamae cyparissus. Cypresse tree. The leaves are hot and binding, help Ruptures, and Polypus, or flesh growing on the Nose.

Chamaecyparissus. Is Lavender Cotton. Resists poyson, kils worms, and withal take notice how learnedly the Colledge could confound the Cy∣press tree, and Lavender Cotton together; and if they say some Authors say Cypressus and Cha∣maecyparissus are all one, and withal shew you where, then tell them I thought their brain was in their books not in their heads.

Distamnus Cretensis. Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, hot and dry, brings away dead children, hastens womens travail, brings away the after∣birth, the very smel of it drives away venemous beasts, so deadly, an enemy is it to poyson; it's an admirable remedy against wounds and Gun∣shot, wounds made with poysoned weapons, it draws out splinters, broken bones &c. The dose from halfe a drachm to a drachm. They say, the Goats and Deers in Creet, being wounded with* 1.30 Arrows, eat this herb, which makes the Arrows* 1.31 fall out of themselves: And from thence came the tale in Virgil * about Aeneas.

Dipsacus, sativ. sylv. Teazles, Garden and wild: the leaves bruised and applied to the tem∣ples,* 1.32 alay the heat in feavers, qualifie the rago in frenzies; the juyce dropped into the ears, kill worms in them, (if there be any there to kill)

dropped into the eyes, cleers the sight, helps red∣ness and pimples in the face being anointed with it.

Ebulus. Dwarf-Elder, or Walwort: hot and dry in the third degree; wasts hard swellings, being applied in form of a pultis; the hair of the head being anointed with the juyce of it turns black; the leaves being applied to the place, help inflamations, burnings, scaldings, the bi∣tings of mad-dogs; mingled with Buls suet is a present remedy for the gout; inwardly taken, is a singular purge for the dropsie and gout.* 1.33

Echium. Vipers-buglosse, Vipers-herb, Snake∣buglosse, Wall-buglosse, Wild-buglosse; seve∣ral Countries give it these several names: it is a singular remedy being eaten, for the biting of ve∣nemous beasts; Continual eating of it makes the body invincible against the poyson of Serpents, Toads, Spiders &c. however it be administred; It comforts the heart, expels sadness, and melan∣cholly: It grows abundantly about the Castle walls, at Lewis in Sussex. The rich may make the flowers into a conserve, and the herb into a syrup; the poor may keep it dry; both may keep it as a Jewel.

Empetron, Calcifraga, Herniaria &c. Rup∣ture-wort, or Burst-wort; the English name tels you it is good against Ruptures, and so such as are bursten shall find it, if they please to make trial of it, either inwardly taken or outwardly ap∣plied to the place, or both. Also the Latin names hold it forth to be good against the stone, which who so tries shall find true.

Enula Campana. Elicampane. Provokes U∣rine: See the root.

Epithimum. Dodder of Time, to w^ch ad cōmon Dodder w^ch is usually that w^ch grows upon Flax: indeed every Dodder retains a vertue of that herb or plant it grows upon, as Dodder that grows up∣on Broom, provokes urin forcibly, & loosens the* 1.34 belly, and is moister than that which grows upon* 1.35 Flax, that which grows upon Time, is hotter* 1.36 and dryer than that which grows upon Flax, even in the third degree, opens obstructions, helps in∣firmities* 1.37 of the spleen, purgeth melancholly, re∣leeves* 1.38 drooping spirits, helps the rickets; that which grows on Flax, is excellent for agues in young children, strengthens weak stomachs, pur∣geth choller, provokes urine, opens stoppings in the reins and bladder; that which grows upon Nettles, provokes urine exceedingly. The way of using it is to boyl it in white Wine, or other convenient decoction, and boyl it very little, remembring what was told you before in 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

Eruca. Rocket, hot and dry in the third de∣gree,* 1.39 being eaten alone, causeth headach by its heat, procureth lust.

Eupatorium. See 〈◊〉〈◊〉.

Euphragia. Eybright: somthing hot and dry, the very sight of it refresheth the eyes; inwardly taken, it restores the sight, and makes old mens eyes young; a drachm of it taken in the mor∣ning is worth a pair of Spectacles, it comforts and strengtheneth the memory, outwardly ap∣plyed to the place it helps sore eyes.

Filix foemina.
Filicula, poly∣podium.	See the Roots.
Filipendula.

Malabathrum. Indian-leaf, hot and dry in the second degree, comforts the Stomach excee∣dingly, helps digestion, provokes urine, helps in∣flamations of the eyes, secures cloathes from moths.

Foeniculum. Fennel, Encreaseth milk in Nurses, provokes Urine, breaks the stone, easeth pains in the Reins, opens stoppings, breaks wind, provokes the terms, You may boyl it in white Wine.

Fragaria. Strawberry leaves, are cold, dry, and binding, a singular Remedy for inflamati∣ons and wounds, hot diseases in the throat, they stop fluxes, and the terms, cool the heat of the stomach, and inflamations of the Liver. The best way is to boyl them in barley water.

Fraxinus &c. Ash-trees: the leaves are mo∣derately hot and dry, cure the bitings of Adders, and Serpents, by a certain antipathy (they say) there is between them, they stop loosness, and stay vomittng, help the Rickets, open stoppages of the Liver and Spleen.

Fumaria. Fumitory: Cold and dry, it ope∣neth and clenseth by Urine, helps such as are Itchy, and Scabbed, cleers the skin, opens stop∣pings of the Liver and Spleen, helps Rickets, Hypochondriak Melancholly, madness, frenzies, Quartan Agues, loosneth the belly, gently pur∣geth Melancholly, and addust choller: boyl it in white Wine, and take this one general rule, All things of a clensing or opening nature may be most commodiously boyled in white wine. Re∣member but this and then I need not write one thing so often.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. Goats-rue: Temperate in quality, resists Poyson, kills Worms, helps the Falling∣sickness, resisteth the Pestilence. You may take a drachm of it at a time in pouder.

Galion. Ladies-bedstraw: dry and binding, stancheth blood: boyled in Oyl, the Oyl is good to anoint a weary Traveller; inwardly it provokes lust.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. See the Root.

Genista. Broom: hot and dry in the second degree, clens and open the Stomach, break the Stone in the Reins and Bladder, help the green sickness. Let such as are troubled with heart∣qualms or faintings, forbear it, for it weakens the Heart and Spirit Vital. See the Flowers.

Geranium. Cranebil, the divers sorts of it, one of which is that which is called Muscata, and in Sussex barbariously Muscovy; it is thought to be cool and dry, helps hot swellings, and by its smel amends a hot brain.

Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot; helps the wind Chollick, pains in the belly, stone in the reins and bladder, and is singular good in ruptures, and inward wounds. I suppose these are the general vertues of them all.

Gramen. 〈◊〉〈◊〉; See the Root.

Gratiola. Hedg- Hysop, purgeth water and flegm, but works very churlishly. Gesner com∣mends it in Dropsies.

Asphodelus foem. See the Root.

Hepatica, Lichen. Liverwort, cold and dry, excellent good for Inflamations of the Liver, or any other Inflamations, yellow Jaundice.

Hedera Arborea, 〈◊〉〈◊〉. Tree and Ground∣Ivy. Tree-Ivy helps Ulcers, Burnings, Scal∣dings, the bad effects of the Spleen; the Juyce snuffed up in the nose, purgeth the head, it is ad∣mirable for surfets or headach, or any other ill effects coming of drunkenness, and therefore the Poets feigned Bacchus to have his head bound round with them. Your best way is to boyl them in the same liquor you got your surfet by drinking.

Ground-Ivy is that which usually is called Alehoof, hot and dry, the Juyce helps noise in the ears, fistulaes, gouts, stoppings of the Liver, it strengthens the Reins and stops the terms, helps the yellow Jaundice, and other diseases co∣ming of stopping of the Liver, and is excellent for wounded people.

Herba Camphorata. Stinking Ground-pine, is of a drying faculty, and therefore stops deflu∣xions either in the eyes, or upon the Lungues, the gout, cramps, palsies, aches, strengthens the Nerves.

Herba Moschata. Mentioned even now, me thinks the Colledg should not have forgotten themselves so soon: How can a man that forgets himself remember his patient?

Herba Paralysis, Primula veris. Primroses, or Cowslips, which you will. The Leaves help pains in the head and joynts; see the Flowers which are most in use.

Herba Paris. Herb True-love, or One-berry. Pena and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, affirm it resists poyson. Ma∣thiolus saith it takes away evil done by witch∣craft, and affirms it by experience, as also long lingring sickness; however it is good for wounds, fals, bruises, apostumes, inflamations, ulcers in the privities. Herb True-love, is very cold in tem∣perature. You may take half a dram of it at a time in pouder.

Herba Roberti. A kind of Cranebil.

Herba venti, Anemone. Wind-flower; the Juyce snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it clenseth filthy Ulcers, encreaseth milk in Nur∣ses, and outwardly by Oyntment helps Lepro∣sies.

Herniaria. The same with Empetron.

Helxine. Pellitory of the wall. Cold, moist, clensing, helps the stone and gravel in the Kid∣nies, difficulty of Urine, sore throats, pains in the ears the Juyce being dropped in them; out∣wardly it helps the shingles and St. Anthonies fire.

Hippoglossum. Horstongue, Tongueblade or Double-tongue. The Roots help the strangury, provoke urine, case the hard labor of women, pro∣voke the terms, the Herb helps ruptures and the fits of the mother, it is hot in the second degree, dry in the first, boyl it in white Wine.

Hippolapathum. Patience, or Monks Reu∣barb: see the Roots.

Hipposelinum. Alexanders, or Alisanders. Provoke urin, expel the After-birth, help the strangury, expel wind.

Horminum, Clary; hot and dry in the third degree; helps weakness in the back, stops the running of the Reins, and the whites in women, provokes the Terms, and helps women that are barren through coldness, or moisture, or both, causeth fruitfulness, but is hurtful for the memo∣ry. The usual way of taking it, is to fry it with Butter, or make a Tansie with it.

Hydropiper. Arsmart. Hot and dry, con∣sumes all cold swellings, and blood congealed by bruises and stripes; applied to the place, it helps that aposthume in the joynts, commonly called a Felon: (but in Sussex, an Andicom) If you put a handful of it under the saddle upon a tired horses back, it will make him travel fresh and lu∣stily; strewed in a chamber kils all the Fleas there; this is the hottest Arsmart, and is unfit to be given inwardly: there is a milder sort, cal∣led Persicaria, which is of a cooler milder quali∣ty, drying, excellent good for putrified ulcers, kill worms: I had almost forgot that the former is an admirable remedy for the Gout, being rosted between two Tiles and applied to the grieved place, and yet I had it from D^r Butler too.

Hysopus. Hysop. Helps Coughs, shortness of Breath, Wheezing, Distillations upon the Lungues; it is of a clensing quality: kils worms in the body, amends the whol colour of the bo∣dy, helps the Dropsie and Spleen, sore Throats, and nois in the Ears. See Syrup of Hysop.

Hyoscyamus &c. Henbane. The white Hen∣bane is held to be cold in the third degree, the black or common Henbane and the yellow, in the fourth: They stupifie the sences, and there∣fore not to be takn inwardly; outwardly appli∣ed, they help inflamations, hot gouts; applied to the temples, they provoke sleep.

Hypericon. St. Johns wort. It is as gallant a Wound-herb as any is, either given inwardly, or outwardly applied to the wound; it is hot and dry, opens stoppings, helpeth spitting and vomiting of blood, it clenseth the Reins, pro∣vokes the Terms, helps congealed blood in the Stomach and Meseraick Veins, the Falling∣sickness, Palsy, Cramps and Aches in the joynts; you may give it in pouder or any convenient de∣coction.

Hypoglottis Laurus Alexandrina. Laurel of Alexandria, provokes urin and the terms, and is held to be a singular help to women in travail.

Hypoglossum, the same with Hippoglossum be∣fore, only different names given by different Authors, the one deriving his name from the tongue of a horse, of which form the Leaf is; the other from the form of the little leaf, because small leaves like small tongues grow upon the greater, but whether the Colledg knew this 〈◊〉〈◊〉 no, is some question.

Iberis Cardamantice. Sciatica-cresses. I sup∣pose so called because they help the Sciatica,

or Huckle bone-gout.

Ingunialis, Aster. Serwort, or Shartwort: be∣ing bruised and applied they help swellings, bot∣ches, and venerious buboes in the groyn, whence they took their name, as also inflamati∣on and falling out of the fundament.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. See the Roots.

Isatis, Glastum. Woad. Drying and bind∣ing; the side being bathed with it, it easeth pains in the spleen, clenseth filthy corroding gnawing ulcers.

Iva Arthritica. The same with Camaepytis.

Juncus odoratus. The same with Schoenan∣thus.

Labrum veneris. The same with Dipsacus.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. Lettice. Cold and moist, cool the inflamation of the stomach commonly called heart-burning, provoke sleep, resist drunken∣ness and take away the ill effects of it, cool the blood, quench thirst, breed milk, and are good for chollerick bodies, and such as have a frenzy, or are sienitique, or as the vulgar say frantick. They are far wholsommer eaten boyled than raw.

Lagobus, Herba Leporina. A kind of Trefoil growing in France and Spain. Let them that live there look after the vertues of it.

Lavendula. Lavender: hot and dry in the third degree; The temples and forehead bathed with the juyce of it, as also the smel of the herb helps swoonings, Catalepsis, Falling sickness, provided it be not accompanied with a Feaver. See the flowers.

Laurcola Laurel. The leaves purge upward and downward, they are good for rhewmatick people to chew in their mouths, for they draw forth much water.

Laurus Bay-tree: the leaves are hot and dry, resist drunkenness, they gently bind and help diseases in the bladder, help the stinging of Bees and Wasps, metigate the pain of the stomach, dry and heal, open obstructions of the liver and spleen, resist the pestelence.

Lappa minor. The lesser Burdock.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. Mastick-tree, both the leaves and bark of it stop sluxes, (being hot and dry in the second degree) spitting and pissing of blood, and the falling out of the fundament.

Lens palustris. Duckmeat: cold and moist in the second degree, helps inflamations, hot swel∣lings, and the falling out of the fundament, be∣ing warmed and applied to the place.

Lepidium Piperites. Dittander, Pepper-wort,* 1.40 or 〈◊〉〈◊〉: a hot fiery sharp herb, admirable for the Gout being applied to the place, being* 1.41 only held in the hand it helps the toothach, and withal leaves a wan color in the hand that holds it.

Livisticum. Lovage: Clears the sight, takes away redness and freckles from the face.

Libanotis Coronaria. See Rosemary. Linaria. Toad-flax, or Wild-flax; hot and dry, clense the reins and bladder, provoke urin, open the stoppinps of the liver and spleen, and help diseases coming thereof: outwardly they take away yellowness and deformity of the skin.

Lillium convallium. Lilly of the Valley. See the flowers.

Lingua Cervina. Harts-tongue: drying and binding, stops blood, the terms and fluxes, opens stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and diseases thence arising. The like quantity of Harts∣tongue, Knotgrass and Comfry Roots being boyled in water, and a draught of the decoction drunk every morning, and the materials which have boyled applied to the place, is a notable re∣medy for such as are burst.

Limonium. Sea-bugloss, or Marsh-bugloss, or as some will have it Sea-Lavender: the seeds being very drying and binding, stop fluxes and the terms, help the chollick and strangury.

Lotus urbana. Authors make some flutter a∣bout this Herb, I conceive the best take it to be Trisolium Odoratum, Sweet Tresoyl, which is of a temperate nature, clenseth the eyes gent∣ly of such things as hinder the sight, cureth green wounds, ruptures, or burstness, helps such as piss blood or are bruised, and secures garments from moths.

Lupulus. Hops. Opening, clensing, provoke urine; the young sprouts open stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, clense the blood, cleer the skin, help scabs and itch, help agues, purge chol∣ler: they are usually boyled-and taken as they eat Sparagus, but if you would keep them, for they are excellent for these diseases, you may make them into a Conserve, (as you shall be taught hereafter) or into a Syrup.

Lychnitis Coronaria: or as others more pro∣perly from the Greek write it, Lychnis. Rose Campion. I know no great physical vertue it hath.

Macis. See the Barks.

Magistrantia &c. Masterwort: Hot and dry in the third degree; it is singular good against poyson, pestilence, corrupt and unwholsom air, helps windiness in the stomach, causeth an ap∣petite to ones victuals, very profitable in fals and bruises, congealed and clotted blood, the bitings of mad-dogs; the leaves chewed in the mouth, clense the brain of superfluous humors, thereby preventing Lethargies, and Apo∣plexes.

Malva. Mallows. The best of Authors ac∣count wild Mallows to be best, and hold them to be cold and moist in the first degree; they are profitable in the bitings of venemous beasts, the stinging of Bees and Wasps &c. Inwardly they resist poyson, provoke to stool; outward∣ly they asswage hard swellings of the Privities or other places, in Clysters they help roughness and fretting of the Guts, Bladder, or Funda∣ment; and so they do being boyled in water and the decoction drunk, as I have proved in this present Epidemical disease, the Bloody-flux.

Majorana. See Amaracus.

Mandragora. Mandrakes. Fit fot no vulgar use, but only to be used in cooling Oyntments.

Marrubium, album, nigrum, foetidum. Mar∣rubium album, is common Horehound. Hot in the second degree, and dry in the third, openeth

the Liver and Spleen, clenseth the breast and lungs, helps old Coughs, pains in the sides, Phtisicks, or ulceration of the lungues, it pro∣vokes the Terms, easeth hard labor in Child∣bearing, brings away the after-birth. See the Syrups.

Marrubium, nigrum, & foetidum. Black and stinking Horehound, I take to be all one. Hot and dry in the third degree; cure the bitings of mad-dogs, wast and consume hard knobs in the fundament and matrix, clense filthy Ulcers.

Unless by stinking Horehound the Colledg should mean that which Fuchsius cals Stachys, if they do, it is hot and dry but in the first degree, and a singular Remedy to keep wounds from in∣flamation.

Marum. Herb Mastich. Hot and dry in the third degree, good against Cramps and Convul∣sions.

Matricaria. Featherfew. Hot in the third degree, dry in the second; openeth, purgeth; a singular remedy for diseases incident to the Matrix, and other diseases incident to women, eases their travail, and infirmities coming after it; it helps the Vertigo or dissiness of the head, Melancholly, sad thoughts: you may boyl it ei∣ther alone, or with other Herbs fit for the same purpose, with which this Treatise will fur∣nish you: applied to the wrists, it helps the Ague.

Matrisylva. The same with Caprifolium.

Meliotus. Melilot. Inwardly taken, pro∣vokes urine, breaks the Stone, clenseth the Reins and Bladder, cutteth and clenseth the Lungs of tough Flegm; the juyce dropped in∣to the eyes, cleers the sight, into the ears, miti∣gates pain and noise there; the head bathed with the juyce mixed with Vinegar, takes away the pains thereof: outwardly in Pultisses, it asswa∣geth swellings in the privities, and else where.

Mellissa. Bawm. Hot and dry; outwardly mixed with salt and applied to the neck, help the* 1.42 Kings Evil, bitings of mad-dogs, venemous* 1.43 beasts, and such as cannot hold their necks as they should do; inwardly it is an excellent re∣medy for a cold and moist stomach, cheers the heart, refresheth the mind, takes away grief, sor∣row, and care, instead of which it produceth joy and mirth. See the Syrup.

Mentha sativa. Garden Mints, Spear Mints. Are hot and dry in the third degree, provoke hunger, are wholsom for the stomach, stay vomiting, stop the terms, help sore heads in in children, strengthen the stomach, cause dige∣stion;* 1.44 outwardly applied, they help the bitings* 1.45 of mad dogs: Yet they hinder conception, and are naught for wounded people, they say by rea∣son of an antipathy between them and Iron.

Mentha aquatica. Water Mints. Ease pains of the belly, headach, and vomiting, gravel in the Kidnies and Stone.

Methastrum. Horse-mint. I know no dif∣ference between them and Water Mints.

〈◊〉〈◊〉, mas, foemina. Mercury, male and foemale, They are both hot and dry in the second degree, clensing, digesting, they purge watry humors, and further conception. Theo∣phrastus relates that if a woman use to eat either the male, or foemale Mercury, two or three daies after conception, she shall bring forth a child ei∣ther male or foemale according to the sex of the herb she eats.

Mezereon. Spurg-Olive, or Widdow-wail. A dangerous purge, better let alone than medled with.

Millesolium. Yarrow. Meanly cold and binding, an healing Herb for wounds, stancheth* 1.46 bleeding; and some say the Juyce snuffed up the nose, causeth it to bleed, whence it was called, Nose-bleed; it stoppeth Lasks, and the Terms in women, helps the running of the reins, helps inflamations and excoriations of the Yard, as also inflamations of wounds.

Muscus. Moss. Is somthing cold and bin∣ding, yet usually retains a smatch of the proper∣ty of the tree it grows on, therefore that which grows upon Oaks is very dry and binding; Se∣rapio saith that it being insused in Wine and the Wine drunk, it staies vomiting and fluxes, as al∣so the whites in women.

Myrtus. Mirtle-tree. The Leaves are of a cold earthy quality, drying and binding, good for fluxes, spitting, vomiting, and pissing of blood, stop the Whites and Reds in women.

Nardus. See the Root.

Nasturtium, Aquaticum, Hortense. Water∣cresses and Garden-cresses.

Garden-cresses are hot and dry in the fourth* 1.47 degree, good for the Scurvy, Sciatica, hard swel∣lings, yet do they trouble the belly, ease pains of the Spleen, provoke lust.

Water-cresses are hot and dry, clense the blood, help the Scurvy, provoke urine and the terms, break the stone, help the green sickness, cause a fresh lively color.

Nasturtium Album, Thlaspi. Treacle-mustard. Hot and dry in the third degree, purgeth vio∣lently, dangerous for women with child: Out∣wardly it is applied with profit to the Gout.

Nicotiani. Tabacco. And in reciting the* 1.48 vertues of this herb, I will follow Clustus, that* 1.49 none should think I do it without an Author. It is hot and dry in the second degree, and of a clensing nature, the leaves warmed and applied to the head are excellent good, in * inveterate head-aches and Negrims, if the diseases come through cold or wind, change them often till the diseases be gone, help such whose necks be stiff, it easeth the faults of the breast, Asthmaes or hard flegm in tho lappets of the lungues, eas∣eth the pains of the stomach and windiness there∣of being heat hot by the fire and applied to it; easeth the pains of the spleen being moistened in vineger and applied hot to the side, they loosen the belly and a 1.50 kill worms being applied to it in like manner, they break the stone being applied in like manner to the region of the bladder, help the rickets, being applied to the belly and sides; applied to the navil they give present ease to the fits of the mother, they take away cold ach in

the joints applied to them, boyled, the liquor absolutely and speedily cures scabs and itch, nei∣ther is there any better salve in the world for wounds than may be made of it, for it clenseth, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 out the filth though it lie in the bones, brings up the flesh from the bottom, and all this it 〈◊〉〈◊〉 speedily, it cures wounds made with 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉, and for this Clusius brings many 〈◊◊〉〈◊◊〉 tedious here to relate; It is an 〈◊〉〈◊〉 thing for Carbuncles, and Plague∣sores, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to none; green wounds 'twill cure in a trico, Ulcers and Gangrenes very spee∣dily, not only in men but also in beasts: there∣fore the Indians dedicated it to their god. Ta∣ken in a pipe it hath almost as many vertues, it easeth 〈◊〉〈◊〉, takes away the sence of hunger and thirst, provokes to stool, he saith, the In∣dians will travail four daies without either meat or drink by only chewing a little of this (made up like a Pill) in their mouths; It easeth the body of supersluous humors, opens stoppings. Mo∣nardus also confirms this judgment, and indeed a man might fill a whol Volumn with the ver∣tues of it. See the Oyntment of Tobacco

〈◊〉〈◊〉. Money-wort, or Herb Two∣pence; cold dry, binding, helps Fluxes, stops the Terms, helps ulcers in the lungues; out∣wardly it is a special herb for wounds.

Nymphaea. See the Flowers.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. Basil, hot and moist. Simeou Se∣thi, saith the smel of Basil is good for the head, but Hollerius (and he no mean Physician nei∣ther) saith the continual smell of it hurts the brain and breeds Scorpions there, and asfirms his own knowledg of it, and that's the reason (saith he) there is such an Antipathy between it and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, which I am confident there is, the truth is, it will quickly putrifie and breed worms. Hollerius saith, they are venemous; and that's the reason the name Basilicon was given to it: The best use that I know of it, is, it gives spee∣dy deliverance to women in travail. Let them not take above half a drachm of it at a time in pouder, and be sure also the birth be ripe, else it causeth abortion.

Oleae folia. Olive-leaves; they are hard to come by here.

Ononis. Rest-harrow. See the Roots.

Ophiogloslon. Adders-tongue: the leaves are ve∣ry drying, being boiled in Oyl they make a dainty green Balsom for green wounds: taken inward∣ly, they help inward wounds.

Origanum. Organy: a kind of wild Marjo∣ram; hot and dry in the third degree; helps the bitings of venemous beasts, such as have ta∣ken Opium, Hemlock, or Poppy; provokes urine, brings down the terms, helps old coughs; in oyntment it helps scabs and itch.

Oxylapathum. Sorrel. See Acetosa.

Papaver &c. Poppies; white, black, or er∣ratick. I refer you to the Syrups of each

Parietaria. Given once before under the name of Helxine.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. Parsnips. See the Roots.

Persicaria. See Hydropiper: this is the milder sort of Arsmart I described there: If ever you find it amongst the Compounds, take it under that notion.

Pentaphyllum. Cynkfoil: very drying, yet but meanly hot, if at all; helps ulcers in the mouth, roughness of the windpipe, (whence comes hoarsness and Couges &c.) helps fluxes, creeping ulcers and the yellow jaundice; they say one leaf cures a quotidian ague, three a ter∣tian, and four a quartan: I know it will cure agues without this curiosity, if a wise man have the handling of it; otherwise a Cart load will not do it.

Petroselinum. Parsly. See smallage

Pes Columbinus. See Geranium.

Persicarum folia. Peach leaves: they are a gentle, yet a compleat purger of choller, and diseases coming from thence, fit for children be∣cause of their gentleness. You may boyl them in whiteWine, a handful is enough at a time.

Pilosella. Mousear: once before, and that's often enough.

Pithyusa. A new name for Spurge, of the last Edition.

Plantago. Plantane. Cold and dry, an herb though common, yet let none despise it, for the decoction of it, prevails mightily against tor∣menting pains and excoriations of the guts, bloody fluxes, it stops the terms, and spitting* 1.51 of blood, 〈◊〉〈◊〉, or Consumptions of the* 1.52 lungues, the running of the reins, and the whites in women, pains in the head, and fren∣zies: outwardly it cleers the sight, takes away inflamations, scabs, itch, the shingles, and all spreading sores, and is as wholsome an herb as can grow about a house.

Polium &c. Polley, or Pellamountain: all* 1.53 the sorts are hot in the second degree, and dry in the third: helps dropsies, the yellow-jaundice, infirmities of the spleen, and provokes urine.

Polygonum. Knotgrass.

Polytricum. Maidenhair.

Portulaca Purslain: Cold and moist in the second or third degree; cools hot stomachs, and (I remember since I was a child that) it is admirable for one that hath his teeth on edge by eating sowr apples, it cools the blood, liver, and is good for hot diseases, or inflamations in any of these places, stops fluxes, and the terms, and helps all inward inflamations whatsoever.

Porrum. Leeks. See the Roots.

Primula Veris. See Cowslips, or the Flowers, which you will.

Prunella. Self-heal, Carpenters-Herb, and in Sussex Sicklewort. Moderately hot and dry, binding. See Bugle. So shall I not need to write one thing twice, the vertues being the same.

Pulegium. Penyroyal: hot and dry in the third degree; provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins, (for I take it, the herb is chiefly apropriated to those parts) strengthens womens backs, provokes the terms, easeth their labour in Child-bed, brings away the afterbirth, staies vomiting, strengthens the brain, (yea the very

smell of it) breaks wind, and helps the Verti∣go.

Pulmonari, arborea, & Symphytum maculosum. Lunguewort. I confess I searching Authors for these, found out many sorts of Lungueworts, yet all agreed that both these were one and the same; and helps infirmities of the Lungues, as hoarceness, coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath &c. You may boyl it in Hysop water, or any other water that strengthens the Lungues.

Pulicaria. Fleabane; hot and dry in the third degree, helps the bitings of venemous beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow Jaundice, the falling-sickness, and such as cannot piss; it be∣ing burnt, the smoke of it kils all the Gnats and Fleas in the chamber, as also Serpents if they be there; it is dangerous for women with child.

Pyrus sylvestris. Wild Pear-tree. I know no vertue in the Leaves.

Pyrola. Wintergreen. Cold and dry, and very binding, stops fluxes, and the terms in women, and is admirable good in green wounds.

Quercus folia. Oak Leaves: are much of the nature of the former, stay the whites in wo∣men. See the Bark.

Ranunculus. Hath got a sort of English names: Crowfoot, King-kob, Gold-cups, Gold-knobs, Butter-flowers &c. they are of a notable hot quality, unfit to be taken inwardly; If you bruise the Roots and apply them to a Plague-sore, they are notable things to draw the venom to them. Also Apuleius saith, that if they be hanged about the neck of one that is lu∣natick in the wane of the Moon, the Moon be∣ing in the first degree of Taurus, or Scorpio, it quickly rids him of his disease.

Raparum folia. If they do not mean Turnep∣leaves, I know not what they mean, nor it may be themselves neither, the greatest part of them having as much knowledg in Simples, as a horse hath in Hebrew. Rapum is a Turnep, but surely Rapa is a word seldom used; If they do mean Turnep-leaves: when they are yong and tender, they are held to provoke urin.

Rosmarinum. Rosemary, hot and dry in the second degree, binding, stops fluxes help stuf∣fings* 1.54 in the head, the yellow Jaundice, helps the* 1.55 memory, expels wind: See the Flowers.

Rosa Solis. See the Water.

Rosa Alba, Rubra, Damascena. White, Red, and Damask Roses. I would some body would do so much as ask the Colledg wherefore they set the Leaves down.

Rumex. Dock: all the ordinary sort of Docks are of a cool and drying substance, and there∣fore stops fluxes; and the Leaves are seldom u∣sed in Physick.

Rubus Idaeus. Raspis, Rasberries, or Hind∣berries: I know no great vertue in the Leaves.

Ruta. Rue, or Herb of grace; hot and dry in the third degree, consumes the seed, and is an enemy to generation, helps difficulty of brea∣thing, and inflamations of the lungues, pains in the side, inflamations of the Yard and Matrix, is naught for women with child: An hundred such things are quoted by Dioscorides. This I am sure of, no Herb resisteth poyson more. And some think Mithridates, that renowned King of Pontus, fortified his body against poyson with no other medicine. It strengtheneth the heart exceedingly, and no Herb better than this in Pestilential times, take it what manner you wil or can.

Ruta Muraria. See Adianthum.

Sabina. Savin; hot and dry in the third de∣gree, potently provokes the terms, expels both birth and after-birth, they (boyled in oyl and used in Oyntments) stay creeping ulcers, scour away spots, freckles, and sunburning from the face, the belly anointed with it kils worms in children.

Salvia. Sage: hot and dry in the second or third degree, binding, it staies abortion in such women as are subject to come before their times, it causeth fruitfulness, it is singular good for the brain, strengthens the sences and memory, helps spitting and vomiting of blood; outward∣ly, heat hot with a little Vinegar and applied to the side, helps stitches, and pains in the sides.

Salix. Willow-leaves; are cold, dry, and bin∣ding, stop spitting of blood and fluxes; the boughs stuck about a chamber, wonderfully cool the air, and refresh such as have feavers; the leaves applied to the head, help hot diseases there, and frenzies.

Sampsucum. Marjoram.

Sanicula. Sanicle: hot and dry in the second degree, clenseth wounds and ulcers.

Saponaria. Sope-wort, or Bruise-wort; vul∣garly used in bruises and cut fingers, and is of notable use in the French-pocks.

Satureia. Savory. Summer-savory, is hot and dry in the third degree, Winter-savory is not so hot, both of them expel wind gallantly, and that (they say) is the reason why they are boyled with Pease and Beans, and other such windy things: 'tis a good fashion and pitty it should be left.

Saxifragia alba. White Saxifrage; breaks wind, helps the chollick and stone.

Scabiosa. Scabious; hot and dry in the se∣cond degree, clenseth the breast and lungues, helps old rotten coughs, and difficulty of brea∣thing, provokes urine and clenseth the bladder of filthy stuff, breaks Aposthumes, and cures Scabs and Itch. Boyl it in white wine.

Scariola. An Italian name for Succory.

Schoenanthus. Schaenanth, Squinanth, or Chamels-hay; hot and binding. Galen saith it causeth headach, beleeve him that list; Dio∣scorides saith it digests and opens the passages of the veins: surely it is as great an expeller of wind as any is.

Scordium. Water-Germander; hot and dry, clenseth ulcers in the inward parts, it provokes urine and the terms, opens stoppings of the li∣ver, spleen, reins, bladder, and matrix, it is a great counterpoyson, and easeth the breast op∣pressed with flegm. See Diascordium.

Scrophularia. Figwort, so called of Scrophula, the Kings Evil, which it cures, they say by be∣ing only hung about the neck if not, bruise it and apply it to the place, it helps the Piles or Hemorrhoids, and (they say) being hung about the neck preserves the body in health.

Sedum. And all his sorts. See Barba Jovis.

Senna. In this give me leave to stick close to Mesue, as an imparaleld Author: it heats in the second degree and dries in the first, clenseth, purgeth, and digesteth, it carries downwards both choller, flegm, and melancholly, it clenseth the brain, heart, Liver, Spleen, it cheers the sences, opens obstructions, takes away dulness of sight, preserves youth, helps deafness (if pur∣ging will help it) helps melancholly and mad∣ness, keeps back old age, resists resolution of the nerves, * 1.56 pains in the head, scabs, itch, falling∣sickness, the windiness of it is corrected with a little Ginger. You may boyl half an ounce of it at a time, in Water or white Wine, but boyl it not too much; half an ounce is a moderate dose to be boyled for any reasonable body.

Scrpillum. Mother-of-Time, Wild Time; it is hot and dry in the third degree, it provokes the terms gallantly, as also helps the strangury* 1.57 or stoppage of urine, gripings in the belly, rup∣tures,* 1.58 convulsions, inflamations of the Liver, Lethargy, and infirmities of the spleen: boyl it in white Wine.

Sigillum Solomonis. Solomons Seal. See the Root.

Smyrnium. Alexanders of Creet.

Solanum. Nightshade: very cold and dry, binding, it is somwhat dangerous given inward∣ly, unless by a skilful hand; outwardly it helps the Shingles, S^t Anthonies fire, and other hot inflamations.

Soldanella. Bindweed, hot and dry in the se∣cond degree, it opens obstructions of the Liver,* 1.59 and purgeth watry humors, and is therefore ve∣ry profitable in dropsies, it is very hurtful to the stomach, and therefore if taken inwardly it had need be well corrected with Cinnamon, Ginger, or Annis-seeds &c. Yet the German Physitians affirm that it cures the dropsie being only brui∣sed and applied to the navil and somthing lower, and then it needs not be taken inwardly at all.

Sonchus levis Asper. Sowthistles smooth and rough; they are of a cold watry, yet binding quality, good for frenzies, they encrease milk in Nurses, and cause the children which they nurse to have a good color, help gnawings of the stomach coming of a hot cause; outwardly they help inflamations, and hot swellings, cool the heat of the fundament and privities.

〈◊〉〈◊〉 Chirurgorum. Flixweed: drying with∣out any manifest heat or coldness, it is usually found about old ruinous buildings, it is so cal∣led because of its vertue in stopping fluxes 〈◊〉〈◊〉 highly commends it, nay elevates it up to the skies for curing old wounds and fistulaes; which though our modern Chyrurgians despise, yet if it were in the hands of a wise man, such as Paracelsus was, it may do the wonders he saith it will.

Spinachia. Spinage. I never read any physical vertues of it.

Spina alba. See the Root.

Spica. See Nardus.

Staebe. Silver Knapweed: The vertues be the same with Scabious, and some think the Herbs too; though I am of another opinion.

Staechas. French Lavender, Cassidony, is a great counterpoyson, open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, clenseth the matrix and blad∣der, brings out corrupt humors, provokes urine. There is another Staechas mentioned here by the name of Amaranthus, in English, Golden flower, or Flower-gentle: the flowers of which expel worms; being boyled, the water kils Lice and Nits.

Succisa, Monsus Dioboli. Devils-bit: Hot and dry in the second degree: inwardly taken, it easeth the fits of the mother, and breaks wind, takes away swellings in the mouth, and slimy flegm that sticks to the jaws, neither is there a more present remedy in the world for those cold swellings in the neck, which the vulgar call, the Almonds of the ears, than this Herb bruised and applied to them.

Suchaha. And Egyptian Thorn. Very hard, if not impossible to come by here.

And here the Colledg make another racket a∣bout the several sorts of Comfryes, which I pass by with silence, having spoken to them be∣fore.

Tanacetum. Tansie: hot in the second de∣gree, and dry in the third; the very smel of it staies abortion, or miscarriages in women; so it doth being bruised and applied to their navils, provokes urine, and easeth pains in making wa∣ter; and is a special help against the Gout.

Taraxacon. Dandelyon, or to write better French, Dent-de-lyon, for in plain English it is called Lyons-tooth; it is a kind of Succory, and thither I refer you.

Tamariscus. Tamaris. It hath a dry clensing quality, and hath a notable vertue against the* 1.60 Rickets, and infirmities of the Spleen, provokes* 1.61 the terms.

Telephium. A kind of Orpine.

Thlaspi. See Nasturtium.

Thymbra. A wild Savory.

Thymum. Tyme. Hot and dry in the third degree; helps coughs and shortness of breath, provokes the terms, brings away dead children and the after-birth, purgeth flegm, clenseth the breast and lungues, reins and matrix, helps the Sciatica, pains in the breast, expels wind in any part of the body, resisteth fearfulness and melan∣cholly, continual pains in the head, and is pro∣fitable for such as have the Falling-sickness to smell to.

Thymaelea. The Greek name for Spurge∣Olive: Mezereon being the Arabick name.

Tithymalus, Esula &c. Spurge. Hot and dry in the fourth degree; a dogged purge, better let alone than taken inwardly; hair anointed with the juyce

of it will fall off; it kills Fish, being mixed with any thing that they will eat: outwardly it clenseth ulcers, takes away freckles, sunburning and morphew from the face.

Tormentilla. See the Root.

Trinitatis herba. Pansies, or Hearts-ease: They are cold and moist both Herbs and Flowers, excel∣lent against inflamatious of the breast or lungs, Con∣vulsions, and Falling sickness, also they are held to be good for the French Pocks.

Trifolium. Trefoil: dry in the third degree, and cold. The ordinary Medow Trefoil, (for their word comprehends all sorts) clenseth the guts of slimy humors that stick to them, being used either in Drinks or Clysters; outwardly they take away infla∣mations, Pliny saith the Leaves stand upright before a storm, which I have observed to be true oftener than once or twice, and that in a cleer day, 14. hours before the storm came.

Tussilago. Colts-foot: something cold and dry, and therefore good for inflamations, they are admi∣rable good for Coughs, and Consumptions of the lungues, shortness of breath &c. It is often used and with good success taken in a Tobacco-pipe, being cut and mixed with a little oyl of Annis seeds. See the Syrup of Colts-foot.

Valeriana. Valerian, or Setwal See the Roots

Verbascum. Thapsus Barbatus. Mullin, or Hig∣taper. It is something dry, and of a digesting, clen∣sing quality, stops fluxes and the hemorroids, it cures hoarcness, the cough, and such as are broken winded; the Leaves worn in the shooes provokes the terms, (especially in such Virgins as never had them) but they must be worn next their feet: also they say, that the Herb being gathered when the Sun is in Virgo, and the Moon in Aries, in their mutual Antiscions, helps such of the falling-sickness as do but carry it about them: worn under the feet it helps such as are troub∣led with the fits of the mother.

Verbena. Vervain; hot and dry, a great opener, clenser, and healer, it helps the yellow jaundice, de∣fects in the reins and bladder, pains in the head, if it be but bruised and hung about the neck; all disea∣ses in the secret parts of men and women; made into an ointment it is a sovereign remedy for old head∣aches, called by the name of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 as also fren∣zies; it cleers the skin, and causeth a lovely co∣lour.

Veronica: See Betonica Pauli.

Violarla. Violet Leaves: They are cool, ease pains in the head proceeding of heat, and frenzies, either inwardly taken, or outwardly applied, heat of the stomach, or inflamation of the lungues.

Vitis Vinifera. The Manuted Vine, a 1.62 The Leaves are binding and cool withal; the burnt ashes of the sticks of a Vine, scour the teeth and make them as white as snow; the Leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heart-burnings, vomitings, as also the longing of wo∣men with child.

Vincitoxicum. Swallow-wort. A pultis made with the Leaves helps sore breasts, and also soreness of the matrix.

Virga Pastoris. A third name for Teazles. (Thus you see the Colledg will be surer than the Miller who took his toll but twice.) See Dipsacus.

Virga Auria. See Consolida

Ulmaria. See the Root. Meadsweet.

Umbilious Veneris. Navel-wort; Cold, dry and binding, therefore helps all inflamations; they are very good for kib'd heels, being bathed with it, and a leaf laid over the sore.

Urtica: Nettles; an herb so well known, that you may find them by the feeling in the darkest night: they are something hot, not very hot; the juyce stops bleeding; they provoke lust exceedingly, help diffi∣culty of breathing, pleurisies, inflamations of the lungues, that troublsome cough that women call the Chincough; they exceedingly break the stone, pro∣voke urine, and help such as cannot hold their necks upright. Boyl them in white Wine.

Usnea. Mosse; once before.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.2

  Pliny.
• * 1.3

  Dioscori∣des.
• * 1.4

  Serapio.
• * 1.5

  Aetius.
• * 1.6

  Dioscori∣des.
• * 1.7

  Galen.
• * 1.8

  Galen.
• * 1.9

  Diosco∣rides.
• * 1.10

  Pliny.
• * 1.11

  Galen.
• * 1.12

  Tragus.
• o 1.13

  I doubt he was mistaken.
• * 1.14

  Galen.
• * 1.15

  Diosco∣rides.
• * 1.16

  Galen.
• * 1.17

  In Sussex (because they must be 〈◊〉〈◊〉) cal∣led Lan∣guedebeef: in plain English, Oxtongue
• (o) 1.18

  Or Members out of joynt.
• * 1.19

  Galen.
• * 1.20

  Dioscori∣des.
• * 1.21

  Hpuleius.
• * 1.22

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.23

  Camera∣rius.
• * 1.24

  Arnoldus villanova∣nus.
• * 1.25

  Brass avo∣lus.
• * 1.26

  Camera∣rius.
• * 1.27

  Aegineta.
• * 1.28

  Galen.
• * 1.29

  Dioscori∣des.
• * 1.30

  Virgil.
• * 1.31

  Aeniad. lib. 12.
• * 1.32

  Galen.
• * 1.33

  D^r Butler.
• * 1.34

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.35

  Mesue.
• * 1.36

  Actua∣rius.
• * 1.37

  Serapio.
• * 1.38

  Avicenna.
• * 1.39

  Galen.
• * 1.40

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.41

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.42

  Galen.
• * 1.43

  〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.44

  Pliny.
• * 1.45

  Galen.
• * 1.46

  Galen.
• * 1.47

  Dioscorl∣des.
• * 1.48

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• * 1.49

  I know not what better name to give it, Old head∣aches, continual head-a∣ches: take which ye will.
• a 1.50

  This I know by experience even wher many o∣ther medi∣cines have sailed.
• * 1.51

  Tragur.
• * 1.52

  Diosco∣rides.
• * 1.53

  Dioscori∣des.
• * 1.54

  Scrapio.
• * 1.55

  Dioscori∣des.
• * 1.56

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.57

  〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.58

  Galen.
• * 1.59

  Galen.
• * 1.60

  Galen.
• * 1.61

  Dioscori∣des.
• a 1.62

  Vines of different climates, have dif∣ferent o∣perations. I write of English Vines.