The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.

¶ Eringium.

ERingium, the leaues are good to be eaten in sallads. 2 The rootes boyled in wine, and drunke, are good for the chollicke,

and gryping of the belly, and expelleth winde, prouoketh termes, and is good against the stone, and grauell, and paine in making water: it prouoketh vrine, expelleth the stone, and cureth the griefes of the kidneys being drunke fifteene dayes together, and is good for the griefes of the liuer, and all venimous bytings or poyson, especially drunke with the seede of wilde carrots: it hel∣peth also the crampe and the falling sicknesse. 3 Bytings veni∣mous, especially of Frogges, stampe the greene hearbe, and ap∣plie it. 4 The roote preserued or comfited, is good for olde folkes, and others that are wasted and withered, to restore them againe, and so is the roote of the thistle Centum capita: but not so good. 5 The roote drunke, expelleth the vrine and termes, it is drunke with wilde carrot seedes against many griefes. 6 Ap∣ply it to wartes and swellings, to cause them to fall: it may bee kept in vineger, vrine, or sugar, or honie, as Sperage and Sam∣pere are kept, and condited. 7 Seeth the root in wine, and drink it against against the griefes of the liuer, mylte and lungs, the tor∣ments of the bellie and inflammations. 8 Drinke a dramme with some bruised seedes of wilde carrots to resist poyson that hath beene drunke. 9 The continuall vse of the roote helpeth the stone. 10 Drinke the rootes with Hydromel for the cricke in the backe, and the falling sicknesse. 11 Applie the roote to ker∣nels vnder the eares. 12 Prickes and splents, bruise the roote, and apply it. 13 Bones bare without flesh, stampe the roote, salt, and swines greace, and applie it. 14 The yong leaues may be boyled, and with salt and oyle preserued for sallads. 15 The hearbe with the roote, must bee gathered when the Sunne is in Cancer. 16 They be blacke without, and white within; very a∣romatike like spice. 17 The herbe or roote made in powder, in∣fusion, or decoction, and drunke, cleanseth the reines, bladder, and Matrix, and prouoketh termes. 18 It greatly preuaileth a∣gainst the chollicke, and torments of the bellie, being drunke with Hydromel. 19 Drinke a dramme at once against the falling sick∣nesse. 20 The roote must bee tender sodden and preserued in sucket, for meate or medicine in Winter, and to restore nature. 21 Drinke a dramme of the roote with wine against the sting∣ing of any venemous beast or worme, or the Feuer. 22 Drinke it sixteene dayes morne and euen, to cure all griefes of the

reines, the stone, and stopping of the vrine.

• Backe griefes 1. 17. 22
• Bellie ache 2. 7
• Bitings venimous 2. 3. 21
• Bones bare 13
• Chollicke 2. 18
• Consumption 4. 19
• Crampe 2
• Falling euil 2. 10. 19
• Feuers 21
• Flesh to growe 13
• Flowers stopt 25. 17
• Frogge biting 3
• Grauell 2
• Inflammation 7
• Kernels 11
• Kidneis griefes 2. 17
• Liuer griefes 27
• Lungs griefes 7
• Matrix to cleanse 17
• Milt griefes 7
• Poyson drunke 2. 8
• Prickes 12
• Sicknesse generall 5
• Restoratiue 4
• Sores 13
• Stinging 21
• Stone 20. 22
• Swelling 6
• Vrine stopt 25
• Warts 6
• Windinesse 2