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.

¶ Feuerfue.

FEuerfue: take two drammes of the powder of it with hony, to purge by siege melancholy and flegme, and to helpe giddi∣nesse and swimming or turning in the head, for shortnes of breath, pensiuenesse and sadnesse. 2 Seethe the herbe without the flow∣ers in water, and drinke it for the stone. 3 Seethe it in wine, and apply it to the nauill, heart, or side for the suffocation, hard∣nesse, and stopping of the mother. 4 Sit in the decoction of it for the hardnesse, and swelling, and inflammation of the mother. 5 Stampe the greene leaues with the flowers, and apply it to the wilde fire, and other inflammations of cholar. 6 Stampe it

with Salt, and apply it to the wrists of children at euery xxiiii. houres ende especially to auoyd the ague. 7 Drinke the iuice or powder to loose the belly, to driue downe flegme & choller, to kill wormes, clense the matrixe, and helpe colde feuers. 8 Giue it with salt to cattell to helpe their swelling and difficultie of brea∣thing. 9 Stampe the greene herbe and apply it to the greefes of the belly. 10 It hath also the vertues of wormemood and of centorie: and Tansie hath the same vertues. 11 Drinke the herbe and flower for shortnesse of winde and the stone: but Tansie is better for men, and Feuerfue better for women. 12 Feuer∣fue comforteth the stomacke, and is good for the Feuer quoti∣dian, the crampe, and coldnesse of the stomake, it cureth vene∣mous bitings being applied. And with vineger it helpeth the Morphue. 13 Stampe it and apply it to wounds wherein are broken bones, and to knit and heale them. 14 The roote stop∣peth the bloody fluxe. 15 Stampe it and apply it aboue a botch to remooue it from place to place. 16 Stomacke gleet stampe it with Auense, and drinke it with stale Ale morne and Euen. 17 Feuer quotidian, stampe it with as much Smallach, and streine them with water, and drinke thereof when the fitte com∣meth thrise and be whole, or drinke the iuice of it and Smallach of ech ii. handfuls with small Ale warme before the fit, and couer thee well to sweate. 18 Gout, stampe it with as much Saint Mary Garlike and applie it. 19 Vomiting, take it iii. dayes with a rere Egge and bee whole. 20 Eares ache and dindling, put in the iuice and stope it in. 21 Fluxes generall, seeth it in wa∣ter, and sit ouer the fume of it. 22 Heart greefs, seeth it in wine with salt and drinke it. 23 Mother suffoc. Drinke the iuice of Motherwort and Feuerfue with grosse Pepper in olde Ale and be whole. 24 Gout, anoynt with the iuice and a Neats Gaule mingled together warme. 25 Impost. Drinke the iuice.

• Bellyach 79 bound 7
• Bytings venim 12
• Bloody fluxe 14
• Botch 15
• Breath short 1. 11
• Bones broken 13
• Cattell sicke 8
• Crampe 12
• Eares ache 20
• Feuer quotid. 6. 7. 12. 17
• Flegm 1
• Fluxes generall 21
• Gout 18. 24
• Heart griefes 22
• ...

• Head giddie 1
• Impost. 29
• Inflammation 5
• Melancholy 1
• Morphue 12
• Mother griefes 3. 4. 7. 23
• Purgat. 1. 7. 16
• Stomacke griefe 12
• Stone 2. 11
• Vomiting 19
• Wilde fire 5
• Wormes 7
• Wounds 13