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.

¶ Lauender.

LAuender: smell often to it to comfort and cleare the sight. 2 Boyle it in water, and weete thy shirt in it, and drie it a∣gaine and weare it, and no lice will be in it so long as it smelleth of it. 3 Steepe the flowers in wine and distill them, and holde the water in thy mouth to recouer speeche lost by the apoplexia. 4 It hath many other vertues, it helpeth all colde griefes of the braine, crampes, and gripings of the body comming of colde, the stopping of the milt, it healeth the belly, and prouoketh termes. 5 Shread the herbe with the flowers, and distill it in Iune, and drinke ii. ounces of the water to helpe giddines of the head, & rub the head all ouer with it, and let it drie in by it selfe. 6 The same also helpeth the crampe, apoplexia, the astonishing and trembling of the members and hands, and the palsie members being rubbed therewith. 7 Drinke iii. ounces at once for the heauinesse of the mouing of the tongue. 8 Holde thereof in thy mouth for the vl∣cers thereof, and the tooth-ache, and the blistrings of the mouth. 9 Seeth the flowers in wine, and drinke it to prouoke vrine well, and drinke it iiii. dayes to prouoke the flowers and seconds, to ex∣pell winde, and to helpe the Iaundies. Or take the flowers with cinamom, cloues, mace, graines, cubebs, and the leaues of rosema∣rie, to helpe all the aforesaid more strongly, and also the palsie and tooth-ache. Head-ache & dissinesse of cold, wash it with the water. 10 Benummed or taken, wash with the water or decoction of the flowers often. 11 For all cold griefes of the head, and to comfort the braine, quilt y^e flowers into a cap, & weare it dayly. 12 Heart griping, seeth the flowers in wine, and drinke it, especially seethe the flowers with roses, cloues, maces, cinamom, cubebs, & carda∣mom in wine, and drinke it for all griefes aforesaide, & for the apo∣plexia, and to restore speeche, the water will doe the like. 13 Pal∣sie, seeth it well in water, and drinke halfe a pint first and last xiiii. dayes, the same taketh out any stayne in cloth being rubbed there∣with.

14 Sprinckle a toste of wheate bread with Malmesey, and cast thereon the drie flowers, and apply it hote in a cloth to the nauell to helpe the chollike. 15 Take as much as a beane of the conserue of the flowers for the beating of the heart, the Iaundies, giddinesse of the head, the palsie members, & to comfort the braine. 16 Feuer quarten, seethe Sage, Lauender, and Rosemary in wine, and drinke it before the fit. 17 Speech lost, seethe Lauen∣der, Couslip, and Sage in wine, and drinke it hote. 18 Trem∣bling, vse water of the decoction of Cresses & Lauender. 19 For all passions of the sinowes, drinke two ounces of the water, and wash the head therewith. 20 Eares dull, put in the oyle of Spike, with as much iuice of Betony. 21 Lauender-spike causeth vrine. 22 A decoction thereof applied to the matrix, stop∣peth superfluous termes, and taketh away the humours of the matrix. 23 Drunke with colde water, it putteth away the weaknesse and trembling of the heart. 24 Steeped in lee, and the head washed therewith, it causeth haire to growe, and stayeth it from falling. 25 The oyle of Spike well drawne by a glasse, is very sweete, and hath many vertues, especially for the palsie members. It ••aseth the goute, and all other greefes of the ioynts. It helpeth swellings of the stomacke, the diseases of the liuer and kidneis, and the Kings euill. 26 The decoction of Spike hel∣peth the palsie of the tongue, comforteth the sinowes, and drieth vp moisture from the tongue. 27 The flowers steeped in wine and set in the sunne a certaine space in a narrowe mouthed glasse, well stopt, and after distilled by glasse in Balneo mariae with a soft fire, (but if the fresh flowers may be had, it neede not be infused) this water is very precious against all colde griefes both inward and outward. 28 Put thereof with a linnen cloth into the nose for the griefe of the head and braine. Drinke two ounces at once for the chollike comming of colde. 29 Anoint the forehead and nape of the necke for the paine and giddinesse of the head. Ap∣plye it to members that haue the palsie, shaking and colde. 30 Matrix inflamed, seethe it in water, and sit ouer it. 31 Vse it to drie vp the moysture of the dropsie. 32 Heart weake, sicke, and swooning, seeth it in wine, and make it a syrupe, and vse it. 33 Liuer and milt stopt, seethe it in goates milke, and vse it long. 34 Dropsy cold, seeth it in the vrine of a goate or blacke

sheepe and drinke it, and seeth it in Goates wheye, & drinke it first and last a long time for bothe dropsies hote and colde. 35 Spike∣nard comforteth the braine and sinowes, warmeth euery colde part of the body, and is good for the falling sicknesse, the chollike, fluxe, cardiake, dropsies, and hyckit. 36 With hony it increaseth haire, it prouoketh vrine, helpeth the fretting or gnawing of the stomacke, it drieth vp reumes of the brest and belly, put into the matrix, it doth drie vp and cleanse it, and the fume thereof helpeth conception. 37 For swooning and the cardiacke passion, seeth it in wine or rosewater, & drinke it with sugar. 38 Braine weake, put it into the nostrels, or seethe it in oyle, and so it is also good for deafenesse and running of the eares. 39 For coldnesse of the stomacke, want of digestion, and stopping of the liuer & milt, with any colde humor, vse wine of the decoction thereof. 40 Gummes rotten, vse the powder of it. 41 The oyle thereof is good for the palsey, falling sicknesse, goutes of the ioyntes and of the feete, both taken at the mouth, and also anointed. Steepe powder thereof in oile xx. dayes, then boile it and streine it. 42 Sweating too much, cast on the powder of it. 43 Seethe Spikenard in water, and temper thy wine therewith, and also make a syrupe with the saide water, and vse it against swooning, and to comfort the heart. 44 Stomacke gnawing, drinke it with colde water. 45 It is vsed in Antidotes and Treacles.

• Aches 2. 5. 41
• Apoplexia 3. 6. 12
• Backe griefes 2. 5
• Belly-ache 4. 36 windy 7. 9
• Benummed 18
• Braine to comfort 11. 15 28. 38
• Chollike 14. 28
• Colde griefes 4. 6. 27
• Conception 36
• Crampe 4. 6
• Digestion 3. 9
• Dropsie 31. 34
• Eares dull 20. 38 run∣ning 38
• Eyes dull 1
• Falling euill 35
• Feuer quarten 16
• Flowers stopt 4. 9 to stop 22
• Giddinesse 5. 9. 15. 29
• Gums rotten 40
• Goute 41
• Heart griefes 12. 23. 32 37. 43
• Head-ache 9. 15 cold griefes 11. 29 giddie 5. 15. 29
• Haire falling 24. 36
• Hickit 35
• Iaundies 9. 15
• Ioynts-ache. 41
• ...

• Kings euill 25
• Lyce 2
• Liuer griefes 25. 33. 39
• Matrix griefes 22. 30. 36
• Milt stopt 4. 33. 39
• Mouth sores 8
• Oyle 25. 41
• Palsey 7. 9. 13. 15. 25. 26. 29. 41
• Reume 3. 6
• Seconds 9
• Sinowes griefes 9. 26. 35
• Shaking 6. 18. 29
• Speech lost 3. 7. 12. 17. 26
• Stomacke-ache 36. 44
• cold 39 swolne 25 windy 9
• Sweating much 42
• Swooning 37. 43
• Taken 10
• Teeth-ache 9
• Trembling 6. 18
• Vrine stopt 9. 21. 36