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.
Langham, William.
¶ Gooseberies.
GOoseberies vnripe, stoppe the bellie and all issues of blood, e∣specially the iuice of them pressed out and dried. 2 The iuice of greene Gooseberies is very good for all hote inflammations, shingles, and wild fire, and so be the leaues, but not so good as the iuice. 3 The berries eaten with meats, prouoke appetite, & coole the heat of the stomacke & liuer, and are good against hote agues. 4 The yong leaues eaten raw, prouoke vrine, and are good for the grauel and stone. 5 They are good in sawses before they be ripe, with flesh and fish for them that be chollericke, hote and sicke.
- Appetite 3
- Bloody fluxe 1
- Fluxes 1
- Feuers hote 3
- Grauell 4
- Hote griefes 5
- Inflammations 2
- Liuer hote 3
- Shingles 2
- Stomacke hote 3
- Stone 4
- Vrine stopt 4
- Wilde fire 2
