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 ...

Common Drop-wort, or Filipendula, in Latin Fili∣pendula.

It has many Roots; black without, and white within. The Fibres of it are bulbous. It has many Leaves at the Roots; they are long, wing'd, and indented almost like Bur∣net-Saxifrage. The Stalk is most commonly single, upright, nine Inches or a Foot high, or higher, chan∣nell'd branchy, with a few Leaves on it. The Flow∣ers are placed on the top

of the Stalk, in a Tuft; they smell sweet, and are white; they consist of se∣ven Leaves. Eleven or twelve Seeds, more or less, are placed in the form of a Star. It grows in Mea∣dows, and Hilly Pastures.

The Root attenuates, and is somewhat astrin∣gent. A Decoction of it provokes Urine, and ex∣pels Gravel: It cures the Heat of Urine, and takes off the Difficulty of it. The Powder of the Root, and the Juice of it, is com∣mended by some, in the Falling-Sickness: 'Tis ex∣cellent for the Whites, and the immoderate Flux of the Child-bed-Purgations: The Dose is, one Dram of the Root in Wine. It also cures the Bloody Flux, and Ruptures.