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 ...

Camomile, in Latin Chamaemelum.

There is so much Camomile in Corn∣wall, that you scent it as you ride there on the Road.

It digests, loosneth, mol∣lifies, eases Pain, provokes Urine and the Courses; wherefore it is much us'd in the Cholick, and for Convulsions that proceed from Wind. Among▪ all the Plants that are us'd in Baths for the Stone, none is so effectual as the Flow∣ers of Camomile. 'Tis outwardly us'd in Parego∣rick, Emollient and Sup∣purating Pultesses, and for Clysters. The Oyl of Ca∣momile softens hard Swel∣lings, and discusses them, and eases the Pain. Some drink a Decoction of it for the Stone. A Person that had the Stone, and had tried many Medicines to no purpose, was wonder∣fully releiv'd by the fol∣lowing Remedy. I took, says he, two Handfuls of the Flowers of the Common Ca∣momile, which I infus'd in a Quart of Rhenish-Wine, and digested them in hot Ashes two Hours; then I strain'd the Liquor, and ad∣ded two Handfuls more of the Flowers, and digested them as before; and repeat∣ed the same a third time; but the last time it must be infus'd no longer time than Asparagus or Fish are wont to be boyl'd in. It is to be no∣ted, that this Decoction is render'd so salt, that one would think a good quantity of Salt had been dissolv'd in it. I took two or three Spoon∣fuls of this Decoction in a small Draught of hot Wine; and by the Ʋse of this simple Medicine (God be prais'd) the dreadful Symptoms were mitigated, and the Ʋreters relaxed; so that some Stones came away by Ʋrine, with∣out any great Pain. After∣wards I prescrib'd the same for several Others that were

so afflicted, who found also much Relief, especially if they were plac'd in a Bath. The Saltness he mentions in this Infusion, is very re∣markable.

Two or three Spoonfuls of the Juice of Camomile, with a few Drops of Spirit of Vitriol, given in Broth before the Fit comes, ge∣nerally cures Agues of all sorts.

Oyl of Camomile is made the same way that Oyl of Roses is.