Beets: Chamomel: Mints: Melilot: Pellitory of the Wal: Chickweed: Rue: stoechas: Marjoram.
Draw
Pimpernel: Birthwort: Dittany: Leeks: Onions: Garlick: and also take this general Rule, as all cold things bind and harden, as is apparant by the frost binding and hardning water and mire; so all things very hot are drawing, as is cleer by the Sun who is the Original of heat, drawing up the dew.
Suppure
Mallaws, Marsh-mallows, white Lilly leaves &c.
Clense
Pimpernel: southernwood: sparagus: Cetrach: Ar∣rach: Wormwood: Beets: Pellitory of the wal: Cha∣mepitys: Doddar: Liverwort: Horehound: Willow leaves &c.
Glutinate
Marshmallows: Pimpernel: Centaury: Chamepi∣tys: Mallows: Germander: Horstail: Agrimony: Maudlin: strawberry leaves: Woad: Chervil: Plan∣tane: Cinkfoyl: Comfry: Bugle: self-heal: Wound∣wort: Tormentill: Rupture-wort: Knotgrass: To∣bacco
Expel wind
Wormwood; Garlick; Dill; Smallage; Chamomel; Epithimum; Fennel; Juniper, Marjoram; Origanum; Savory, both winter and summer; and that, I am of opinion, was the reason in ancient times, women al∣waies boyled Savory with their beans and pease, viz. to expel the windiness of them; it was a good fashi∣on, and therefore I would not have it left: however this shews that in ancient times, people were more studious in the nature of Simples, or at the least Phy∣sitians were more honest, I mean more free in im∣parting their knowledg for the benefit of the vulgar; at last Honesty began to leave the Earth, and then Ignorance quickly stepping up in the place of Know∣ledg, people used them a while for custom sake, at last they were esteemed superstitious, and quite left off.
I care not greatly, now I am at it, if I quote one more of like nature (I am confident, were it my present scope, I could quote an hundred) and that is Tansy.
Tansie is excellent good to clense the stomach and bowels of tough viscous flegm, and humors that stick to them, which the flegmatick constitution of the Winter usually infects the body of man with, and oc∣casions gouts and other diseases of like nature, and la∣sting long; this was the original of that custom to eat Tansies in the Spring, which afterwards grew to be superstitious, and apropriated only to some cer∣tain daies, as Palm-Sundaies &c. and so at last the evils of observing daies being known, and the ver∣tues of the meat absconded, it is quite almost left off. For my part, if any think it superstitious to eat a Tansie in the Spring, I shall not burden their consci∣ences, they may make the Herb into a Conserve with Sugar, or boyl it in Wine and drink the Decoction, or make the Juyce into a Syrup with Sugar, which they will. But to proceed.
Herbs breed seed
Clary, Rocket, and most Herbs that are hot and moist, and breed Wind.
Provokes the Terms
Southernwood, Garlick, al the sorts of Maidenhair, Mugwort, Wormwood, Bishopsweed, Cabbages, Bet∣tony, Centaury, Chamomel, Calaminth, German∣der, Dodder, Dittany, Fennel, St. Johns-wort, Mar∣joram, Horehound, Bawm, Water-cresses, Origanum, Basil, Penyroyal, Poley-mountain, Parsly, smallage, Rue, Rosemary, Sage, Savin, Hartwort, Time, Mo∣ther of Time, Scordium, Nettles.
Stop the Terms
Shepheards-purse, strawberries, Mirtles, Water∣Lillies, Plantane, Housleek or sengreen, Comfry, Knotgrass.
Resist Poyson
Southernwood; Wormwood; Garlick; al sorts of Maiden-hair; smallage; Betony; Carduus Benedictus; Germander; Calaminth; Alexanders; Carline thistle; Agrimony; Fennel, Juniper; Horehound; Origanum; Penyroyal; Poley-mountain; Rue; scordium; Plan∣tane.
Discuss swellings
Maiden-hair, Cleavers or Goosgrass, Mallows, Marshmallows, Docks, Bawm, Water-cresses, Cink∣foyl, scordium &c.
Ease pain
Dil, Wormwood, Arrach, Chamomel, Calaminth, Chamepitys, Henbane, Hops, Hogs Fennel, Parsly, Rosemary, Rue, Marjoram, Mother of Time.