Emplastrum Carminativum, or a Carminative Plaster.
Take Oyl of Iuniper-berries and oyl of Rays, of each four ounces; juyce of Elder made thick, juyce of Rue and dwarff Elder, of each three ounces; Pigeons and Goats dung macerated in Vinegar, Ship Pitch, of each two oun∣ces; flowers of Chamomil an ounce and a half, red Myrrh, Sandarack, Mastich and Olibanum, of each an ounce; roots of Angelica and Elicampane, roots of English Ga∣langal and sweet Costus, round Cyperus, Zedoary, of each half an ounce; white Turpentine sufficient to make a Plaster, toward the end add distilled Oyl of Cummin and Caraways, of each six drams; and so make a Pla∣ster according to Art.
Virtue and Use. It is effectually applied in the Dro∣psie, and to discuss wind: It also allays all pain pro∣ceeding from a cold intemperature of the Stomach, Guts, Liver, Reins, Bladder, Womb, and from the flatulencies of those and other parts. In the Dropsie it is to be spread upon a thick Linen Cloth, and ap∣plied to the whole Belly, shunning the Region of the Liver.