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FLOWERS.
BOrrage, and Bugloss flowers, strengthen the heart and brain, and are profitable in Feavers.
Chamomel flowers, heat and asswage swellings, in∣flamations of the bowels, dissolve wind, are profit∣able given in Clysters or drink, to such as are troub∣led with the Chollick, or Stone.
Staechas, opens stoppings in the bowels, and streng∣thens the whole body.
Saffron powerfully concocts, and sends out what∣ever humor offends the body, drives back inflamati∣ons, being applied outwardly, encreaseth lust, pro∣vokes urine.
Clove-Gilliflowers, resist the pestilence, streng∣then the heart, liver, and stomach, and provokes lust.
Schoenanth (which I think I touched slightly a∣mongst the Herbs) provokes urine potently, provokes the terms, breaks wind, helps such as spit or vomit blood, easeth pains of the stomach, reins, and spleen, helps dropsies, convulsions, and inflamations of the womb.
Lavender-flowers, resist all cold afflictions of the brain, convulsions falling-sickness, they strengthen cold stomachs, and open obstructions of the liver, they provoke urine and the terms, bring forth the birth and afterbirth.
Hops, opens stoppings of the bowels, and for that cause Beer is better than Ale.
Bawm flowers, cheer the heart and vital spirits, strengthen the stomach.
Rosemary-flowers, strengthen the brain exceeding∣ly and resist madness, cleer the sight.
Winter-Gilliflowers, or Wall-flowers (as some call them) help inflamation of the womb, provoke the terms, and help ulcers of the mouth.
Hony-suckles, provoke urine, ease the pains of the spleen, and such as can hardly fetch their breath.
Mallows, help Coughs.
Red Roses, cool, bind, strengthen both vital and animal vertue, restore such as are in consumptions, strengthen. There are so many Compositions of them which maks me the briefer in the Simples.
Violets, (to wit the blew ones, for I know little or no use of the white in physick) cool and moisten, pro∣voke sleepe loosen the belly, resist feavers, help in∣flamations, correct the heat of choller, ease pains in the head, help the roughness of the wind-pipe, disea∣ses in the throat, inflamations in the breast and sides, pluresies, open stoppings of the liver, and help the yellow Jaundice.
Cichory, (or Succory as the vulgar calls it) cools and strengthens the liver: so doth Endive.
Water-lillies ease pains of the head coming of chol∣ler and heat, provoke sleep, cool inflamations, and the heat in seavers.
Pomegranate-flowers, dry and bind, stop fluxes, and the terms in women.
Cowslips, strengthen the brain, sences, and me∣mory, exceedingly, resist all diseases there, as con∣vulsions, falling-sickness, palsies &c.
Centaury, purges choller and gross humors, helps the yellow Jaundice, opens obstructions of the liver, helps pains of the spleen, provokes the terms, brings out the birth and afterbirth.
Elder, flowers, help dropsies, clense the blood, cleer the skin, open stoppings of the liver and spleen, and diseases arising there from.
Bean-flowers, cleer the skin, stop humors flowing into the eyes.
Peach-tree flowers, purge choller gently.
Broom-flowers, purge water, and are good in drop∣sies
The temperature of all these differ either very little or not at all from the Herbs. And now I think I have done full out as well as the Colledge, that named three times as many and gave the vertues of none.
The way of using the Flowers I did forbear, be∣cause most of them may, and are usually, made into Conserves, of which you may take the quantity of a Nutmeg, in the morning; all of them may be kept dry a yeer, and Boyled with other herbs conducing to the cures they do.