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.

¶ Anniseedes.

ANniseedes dissolue windinesse, belching, and blasting of the stomake and belly, and helpeth their griping and torments, stoppeth the laske, prouoketh vrine, and voydeth the stone, and the hycket or yexing, being taken drye or with wine or water. 2 It cureth the bloody-flixe, stoppeth the whites, is good for the dropsie, openeth the pipes of the liuer, stauncheth thirst, and is good against all poyson, and stingings of scorpions, and bitings of all venemous beastes. 3 The seedes eaten plenteously prouoke lust, and doe breede milke. 4 Chewe the seedes to make the breath easie and sweete, drie the seedes and mixe them with honie, and vse the same to cleanse the breast: mixe them with honie and bitter Almonds to cure the olde cough. 5 Let children that be in danger of the fal∣ling euell, vse to holde the seedes in their hand, to auoide the perill of that disease: mixe the seedes with hony, vineger and hysope, and gargle therewith for the squyncy and swelling in the throte. 6 Binde the seedes in a linnen cloth, and smell to them to keepe thee from euill dreames, starting in sleepe, and to cause quiet rest: smell to the perfume of it to cure the head ache, put it into the eares with oyle of Roses to cure their inward hurtes & woundes. 7 Drinke it with Ptisane, or cleare temperate wine to open the stopping of the reines and matrix, vse it in Ptisands for the Feuer quotidian bredde of flegme. 8 Drinke it with good white wine and suger for the chollike, windinesse of the guts, and to stop the whites. 9 Make powder thereof with Fenell seedes, Galing∣gale, Spikenard, Tamarisk, Nutmegs & Cardamom, and mix it with wheate flowre water and red wine, and make cakes thereof, and bake them and eate them dayly for the running of the reines, wasting of nature, moyst dropsies comming of winde and colde,

the tympany and swelling of the belly, and be purged once a mo∣neth with conuenient Electuaries. 10 The same eaten or drunke, are good for the sight, the lungs, reines, stomake and blad∣der. 11 Vse them in bread either broken or whole for the chol∣like and stone: mixe powder of Anniseedes and Cumminseedes with waxe, and apply it to blacknesse that commeth of bruses. 12 Vse to eate the seedes to heate the liuer, and to helpe digestion. Seethe them in wine, and drinke it with Cinamom and Mastike against grieuous belchings of a colde stomake. 13 Seeth them in water with Harts tongue, and drinke it for the stopping of the liuer and milte, for the dropsie and the whites. Seethe powder of the seedes in a bag in wine, & apply it hote to the matrix to cleanse it, and to bring downe the termes. 14 Take the seedes with Ca∣storie for the swelling of the stomake and bowels: eate or drinke the seedes with vineger and hony to helpe the strangling of the mother. 15 Seethe them in wine, and drinke it for the impo∣stumes of the stomake, and the cough: drinke the powder of them with wine against poyson, with oyle of Roses it helpeth the paine of the eares. 16 The fume thereof receiued into the nose helpeth the head ache: the best of them come out of Candie, and are cleane and well smelling. 17 Anniseedes helpe the stoppings of the li∣uer and milte, breake winde, cause vrine and sweate, and loosen the belly. 18 Seethe one ounce with three stickes of bruised Li∣coras, and two handfull of Hony-suckle leaues in a quart of wa∣ter to a pint, and drinke thereof fasting for flegme and stopping of the stomake. 19 Seethe a handfull of the seedes in a quart of Malmesey with a handfull of vnset Hysope, till it be thicke, and spread it on a toste of bread of Wheate with some butter, and ap∣ply it in a linnen cloth to the stomake for the cough, but for a stitch apply it without butter. 20 Drinke powder of Licoras and Anniseedes with possit ale made with Sacke and Ale, for the stuf∣fing of the lungs euery morning. Drinke powder of Anniseedes and Cummin seedes fiue dayes morning and euening with wine to helpe for the windinesse and chollike of the belly. 21 To purge the stomake, seethe Anniseeds & Polipody ana three ounces in a quart of water to the one halfe, then streine it and suger it and drinke it. 22 To auoide windinesse, thirst, oppilation of the liuer and milte, to prouoke lust, vrine and termes, to cleare the sight,

and to cleanse and comfort the stomake, vse Anniseedes. 23 For the dropsie, fill an olde cocke with Polipody and Anniseedes, and seethe him well, and drinke the broth, it helpeth also the chollike. 24 To increase milke, vse powder of the seedes: for windinesse in the belly, drinke powder of the seedes of Annise, Fennell, and Cummin with wine first and last: for the hicket, or yexing, smell to dried Anniseedes: 25 For the Emerods, burne the seedes and apply them with hony: for the falling sicknesse, vse Anniseedes and Rue in thy meates: mouth stinke, wash it with the decoction of Anniseedes: heart cardiake, mixe y^e iuice of Betony with Trea∣cle, powder of Cloues, Cummin, and Annise ix dayes. 26 Vomi∣ting of hot cause, eate Anniseedes fasting. Stomake slimie, and to helpe digestion, in Winter eate Anniseedes vpon tostes of bread dipt in wine. 27 Belly ache and chafing of the liuer, and to helpe digestion, vse Anniseedes any way. Chollike and Nephretyke, drinke powder of the seedes with the iuice of Perslie: for the drop∣sie, vse much water in y^e wine decocted with Anniseedes, or drinke powder of the seedes of Annise, Fennell, & Peony. Gout, stampe Sage leaues with Anniseedes, and seethe them in wine, and apply it. 28 Pipes stopt, seethe Anniseedes and Licoras in running water to the one halfe, then streine it and drinke it at euen hot, and at morning colde. 29 A bagge of Anniseede, Salt, and Darnell, dryeth vp rheume. 30 Stomake rising, seethe long Pepper, Graines, Saffron, Ginger, Anniseedes and Licoras, with Su∣gar in good Ale till it be thicke, and drinke thereof and be whole.

• Ache 28
• Backe-ache 27 see stone chol.
• Belching 1. 12 see stom.
• Belly griping 18. 27. (see wind swolne 8. 14. 24)
• Bound 17. windie 18. 14. 21. 24. (see stomake.)
• Bitings venom. 3
• Blacke spots 11
• Blasting 1
• Bladder griefes 10
• Bloudy-flixe 2
• Breast cleansing 4. 20. 29
• Breath short 4. 20. stin∣king. 4. 25.
• Bruses 11
• Chollike 8. 11. 21. 23
• Cough olde 4. 15. 19
• Digestion 12. 26. 27
• Dreames euill 6
• Dropsie 2. 8. 13. 23. 27
• Eares hurtes 6. 16
• Eyes dull 10. 22
• Emerods 25
• ...

• Falling euell 5. 25
• Feuer quot. 7
• Flegme 18
• Fluxe 1
• Flowers stopt 14. 22
• Gout 28
• Hart cardiac 26
• Head-ache 6. 16. reume 29
• Hyckit 1. 24
• Impost. 15. 18. 21
• Liuer colde 12 stopt 2. 17. 20. 13. 22
• Lungs griefes 2. 10. 11. 20. 29
• Lust to cause 3. 22
• Matrix cleansing 14. stopt 7 strangled 14
• Milke to cause 3. 23
• Milt stopt 13. 17. 22
• Nature lost 8
• Obstruct. 2
• Pipes stopt 28
• Poyson 2. 15
• Purgation 21
• Reines running 8 stopt 7 10. 27
• Reume 29
• Sleepe to cause 6
• Squyncy 5
• Starting 6
• Stingings 2
• Stich 19
• Stomake griefes 12. 14. 18 22. 26. Impost. 15. 18. 21. rising 30 purging 21. 26. weake 22. 26. windie 1. 10
• Stone 11. 27
• Sweate to cause 17
• Thirst 2. 22
• Throte swolne 5
• Tympany 8
• Vomiting 26
• Vrine stopt 1. 17. 22
• Whites to stop 28. 13
• Windinesse 8. 17. 22