The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...

Peony, in Latin Paeonia.

The Roots and Seeds of Male-Peony are much used in Physick: They are used for Diseases of the Head, and for Obstructions of the Courses, and Child-bed-Purgations, and to ease the

After-pains. The Roots are hang'd round the Neck, to cure the Falling-sickness. The Compounded Peony-water, and the Syrup of it, are much in use. The Compounded Water is made in the following manner: Take of the Leaves of Lillies of the Valley, fresh, one Pound; infuse them in four Gallons of Spanish Wine: Take of the Flowers of the Lime-tree half a Pound, of Peo∣ny-flowers four Ounces; infuse them two Days, then distil them till they are dry in B. M. in the distil'd Water infuse two Ounces and an half of the Roots of Male-Peony; of White Dittany, and Long Birth-wort, each half an Ounce; of the Leaves of Misleto of the Oak, and Rue, each two Handfuls; of the Seeds of Peony ten Drams, of Rue three Drams and an half, of Castor two Scruples of Cubebs and Mace, each two Drams; of Cinnamon one Ounce and an half, of Prepar'd Squills three Drams, of Rosemary-flow∣ers six Pugils, of Stechas and Lavender, each four Pugils; of Betony, July-flowers and Cowslips, each eight Pugils; add four Quarts of the Juice of Black-Cherries, and distil them in a Glass. The Syrup is made in the following manner: Take of the fresh Roots of both Peonies, at Full Moon, each one Ounce and an half; slice them, and infuse them in white-wine for the space of a Day; of Contrayerra half an Ounce, of Sermountain six Drams, of Elk-hoof one Ounce, of Rosemary with the Flowers one Handful, of Betony, Hyssop, Wild-Marjoram, of Ground-pine and Rue, each three Drams; of the Wood of Aloes, of Cloves, of the Seeds of the Lesser Carda∣moms, each two Drams; of Ginger and Spikenard, each one Dram; of Ste∣chas and Nutmegs, each two Drams and an half; infuse them warm, a Day, in three Quarts of the di∣still'd Water of the Roots of Peony; boyl them to four Quarts; strain it, and add four Pounds and an half of Fine Sugar, and boyl it to a Syrup.