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.

¶ Lupines.

LVpines: haire to fall and growe no more, apply the branne. 2 Morphue, mixe powder of Lupines and mint leaues with vineger, and anoint. 3 Wormes, vse the iuice of Lupines. Head fistula, seeth bitter Lupines in salt water, and put vineger to it, and streine it, and put in powder of Germander, and wash therewith. 4 Wormes, apply y^e meale with as much oxe gall as will thicken it to the belly, with wooll as often as neede is. 5 Wormes in chil∣dren, kneade y^e meale with hony, & apply it to the nauell. 6 Hands skab, wash with y^e broth of Lupines. Nauel swolne, (see in Flaxe.) 7 Belly wormes & leanenesse of body, mixe y^e gall of a Cow with a litle meale of Lupines, and apply it with wooll iiii. or v. dayes. 8 Their meale taken with hony or with water and vineger, doeth kill & expell all kindes of wormes, & so doth the decoction thereof drunke, or stampt and applied to the nauell fasting. 9 The decoc∣tion

of Lupines boyled with Rue, and Pepper, and drunke, ope∣neth the liuer and milt. 10 A pessarie of Lupines, Myrrhe, and hony mixt together, draweth downe the termes, seconds, and dead birth. 11 The decoction of Lupines doeth beautifie the face, and driueth away all freckles, spots, and lentiles, and so doth the meale applied with water. 12 The meale, with meale of parched barley and water, swageth all apostumes and swellings. 13 The same boyled with vineger, swageth the paine of the sciatica, dissolueth and consumeth the kings euill or swelling in the throte. It ope∣neth and breaketh wens, botches, biles, and plaguesores. 14 Soke them long in water, till they haue lost their strength or bitternesse, and then they may be eaten, and so they take away the lothsome∣nesse of the stomacke, and desire to vomite, and cause appetite, but they ingender grosse humors. 15 The rootes sodden in water prouoke vrine. 16 The smoke of Lupines burned, driueth away gnats. Seethe Lupines in raine water till they be broken, and streine it when it is colde, wash the face with it to take away all foulenesse and spots. 17 Cankers to kill, apply the hearbe and seede with swines grease, vineger, & brimstone, and so it also hea∣leth skales of the head. 18 Seeth it in Parsley water and drinke it to cleanse the bladder and prouoke vrine. 19 Drinke it with vineger to cleanse the stomacke, helpe digestion, and voide lothing. 20 Eate the powder with vineger or hony, to driue all wormes out of the body, or seethe it with Rue and Pepper in water, and drinke it, and so it openeth the liuer and milt. 21 For all kinde of skabs, skalles, gangrenes, pushes, whelkes, pockes, and other deformities of y^e face, skin, and for spreading sores of y^e head, wash with water of y^e decoction of Lupines. 22 Rub y^e lower part of any tree w^t meale of Lupines, & there will no pismires come thereon.

• Appetite 14. 19
• Apostume 12. 13
• Byles 13
• Bladder griefes 18
• Botche 13
• Consumption 7
• Dead childe 10
• Deliuerance 10
• digestion 19
• Face deformed 11. 16. 21
• Fistula 3
• Flowers stopt 10
• Freckles 11
• Gangrenes 21
• Gnats 16
• Hands skabbed 6
• Head Fistula 3
• Haire to fall 1
• ...

• Kankers 17
• Kings euill 13
• Leannesse 7
• Liuer stopt 9. 20
• Milt stopt 9. 20
• Morphue 2
• Plague sore 13
• Pockes 21
• Pushes 21
• Purgation 19
• Sciatica 13
• Seconds 10
• Scabs 6. 20
• Scalles 21
• Skinne deformed 11. 16. 21
• Sores 21
• Stomake lothing 14. 19
• Swellings 12. 13
• Throte swolne 13
• Vrine stopt 15. 18
• Wennes 13
• Wormes 3. 4. 5. 7. 8. 20