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SEEDS OR GRAINS.
COriander seed, hot and dry, expels wind, but is hurtful to the head, send up unwholsom vapors to the brain, dangerous for mad people; therefore let them be prepared as you shall be taught towards the latter end of the Book.
Fenugreek seeds, are of a softening discussing nature, they cease inflamations, be they internal or external, bruised and mixed with vineger they ease the pains of the Spleen; being applied to the sides, help hardness and swellings of the matrix; being boyled, the de∣coction helps scabby heads.
Linseed hath the same vertues with Fenugreek.
Gromwel-seed, provokes urine, helps the chollich, breaks the stone, and expels wind. Boyl them in white Wine, but bruise them first.
Lupines, easeth the pains of the spleen, kils worms, and casts them out; outwardly, they clense filthy ul∣cers, and Gangrenes, help scabs, itch, and inflama∣tions.
Dill seed, encreaseth milk in Nurses, expels wind, staies vomitings, provokes urine; yet it duls the sight and is an enemy to generation.
Smallage seed, provokes urin and the terms, expels wind, resists poysons, and easeth inward pains, it opens stoppings in any part of the body, yet it is hurtful for such as have the falling sickness, and for women with child.
Rocket seed, provokes urine, stirs up lust, encreaseth seed, kills worms, easeth the pains of the spleen: use all these in like manner.
Basil seed: If we may beleeve Dioscorides and Cre∣scentius, cheers the heart, and strengthens a moist stomach, drives away melancholly, and provokes urine,
Nettle seed, provokes lust, opens stoppages of the womb, helps inflamations of the sides and lungues, purgeth the breast: boyl them (being bruised) in White Wine also.
The seeds of Ammi, or Bishopsweed, heat and dry, help difficulty of urine, and the pains of the chollick, the bitings of venemous beasts, they provoke the terms, and purge the womb.
Annis seeds, heat and dry, ease pain, expel wind, cause a sweet breath, help the dropsie, resist poyson, breed milk, and stop the whites in women, provoke lust, and ease the headach
Cardamoms, heat, kill worms, clense the reins, and provoke urine.
Fennel seeds, break wind, provokes urine, and the terms, encreaseth milk in Nurses.
Commin seeds, heat, bind and dry, stop blood, expel wind, ease pain, help the bitings of venemous beasts: outwardly applied (viz in plaisters) they are of a discussing nature.
Carrot seeds, are windy, provoke lust exceedingly, and encrease seed, provoke urine and the terms, cause speedy delivery to women in travel, and bring away the after-birth. All these also may be boyled in White Wine.
Nigella seeds, boyled in oyl and the forehead anoin∣ted with it, ease pains in the head, take away leprosie, itch, scurff, and hepls scald-heads: inwardly taken they expel worms, they provoke urine, and the terms, help difficulty of breathing: the smoke of them (be∣ing burned) drives away Serpents and venemous beasts.
Stavesager, kills Lice in the head, I hold it not fitting to be given inwardly.
The seeds of water-cresses, heat, yet trouble the stomach and belly, ease the pains of the spleen, are very dangerous for women with child, yet they pro∣voke lust; outwardly applied, they help leprosies scald∣heads, and the falling off of hair, as also Carbuncles, and cold ulcers in the joynts.
Mustard seed, heats, extenuates, and draws moi∣sture from the brain; the head being shaved and a∣nointed with Mustard, is a good remedy for the le∣thargy, it helps filthy ulcers, and hard swellings in the mouth, it helps old aches coming of cold.
French Barly, is cooling, nourishing, and breeds milk.
Sorrel seeds, potently resist poyson, helps fluxes, and such stomachs as loath their meat.
Succory seed, cools the heat of the blood, extin∣guisheth lust, openeth stoppings of the liver and bo∣wels, it allaies the heat of the body, and produceth a good colour, it strengthens the stomach, liver, and reins.
Poppy seeds, ease pain, provoke sleep. Your best way is to make an Emulsion of them with Barly-wa∣ter.
Mallow seeds, ease pains in the bladder.
Cich-Pease, are windy, provoke lust, encrease milk in Nurses provoke the terms, outwardly, they help scabs, itch, and inflamations of the stones, ulcers &c.
White-Saxifrage seeds, provoke urine, expel wind, and break the stone. Boyl them in white Wine.
Rue seeds, help such as cannot hold their water.
Lettice seed, cool the blood, restrains lust.
Also Gourds, Citruls, Cucumers, Mellons, Pur∣slain, and Endive Seeds, cool the blood, as also the stomach, spleen and reins, and allay the heat of fea∣vers. Use them as you were taught to do Poppy seeds.
Wormseed, expels wind, kills worms.
Ash-tree Keyes, ease pains in the sides, help the dropsie, releeve men weary with labor, provoke lust, and make the body lean.
Peony seeds, help the Ephialtes, or the disease the vulgar call the Mare, as also the fits of the mother, and other such like infirmites, of the womb, stop the terms, and help Convulsions.
Broom seed, potently provoke urine, breaks the stone.
Citron seeds, strengthen the heart, cheer the vital spirit, resist pestilence and poyson.