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.
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¶Medowort.
MEdowort: Drinke the decoction or powder of it to stop the laske and all issues of blood. 2 Boile the flowers in white wine and drinke it to cure the feuer quarten. 3 Seeth the root in wine and Hony & drinke it to loose the belly & draw downe choller. 4 But sodden in red wine it stoppeth the bloody fluxe: Stampe the herbe with Mede & apply it to swellings, & to drawe forth pricks, splents. 5 Vse not the seede, for it causeth headach: Seeth it in fresh butter and streine it, and anoint therewith any burning or skalding.
- Belly bound 3
- Bloody fluxe 1. 4
- Burnings 5
- Feuer quarten 2
- Fluxes 1
- Skalding 5
