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.

¶ Mints.

MInts: Wormes, eat powder of Mints with milke. 2 Belly bound, eat Mints. 3 Colour bad, vse Mints daily. 4 Mints are healthfull at any time. 5 Anoint the holy fire with the iuice of Mints, brimstone & vineger, to cease the paine forthwith. 6 Guts and kidneys payne, seeth Mints in wine and drinke it. 7 Seeth Mints in wine & oyle, and apply it to impostumes to dissolue them, and to helpe the Paps that are hard with curded milke. 8 Mouth, gums and teeth rotten and stinke, seeth garden Mints in vineger and wash therewith, and after rub them with powder of Mints. 9 When any medicine is giuen against poyson, it ought to be gi∣uen with the iuice of Mints, or els with wine of the decoction thereof: which wine or Mints with Hony doth helpe against stop∣ping of the liuer, milt and passage of the water, and the iuice with Hony slayeth wormes in the belly & in the eares being dropped in. 10 Mints put into milke, doeth not suffer it to curd, although ••uen bee put to it, and in like sort generation. 11 Drinke the iuice with vineger against spitting of blood, to stop vomiting, to kill small wormes in the body. 12 All Mints greene or dry, are good for the stomacke, and also the distilled water, to helpe digesti∣on, to auoid the hicket, lothing & choller, especially vsed in sawses: it prouoketh lust, and comforteth all the members, and the smell of it comforteth the braine and memory. 13 Headach, apply the iuice or water with a cloth, and to swolne breasts for their curded milke, and drop it into the eares for their ache. 14 Biting of a mad dog, stampe Mint with salt & apply it. 15 Mixe powder of water Mints with leuen and apply it to the stomacke to withstand belching & vomiting. 16 All Mints are good to bath in to prouoke sweate. Headach, apply Mints. 17 Tongue rough, rub it with Mints. 18 It is singular good in sawses, and for a woman that hath had hard labour, being drunke with wine. 19 Eat powder of Mints after meate to helpe digestion, and healeth all the griefes of the milt. 20 The iuice withstandeth venom, and slaieth wormes: let no wounded body vse any Mint, because it hindreth the hea∣ling of the wound 21 Lethargy and forgetfulnesse, stampered Mints with Rue, oyle and vineger, and apply it to the nostrels. 22 Frensie, seethe Mints in vineger and apply them vnto the head, and put the iuice of Iuye into the Nose. 23 Apply

Mints to thy head to voyde all paine that commeth of colde cause. 24 Stampe water Mints, and applie them to the middest of thy browe and nape of thy necke against madnesse, and to prouoke sleepe. 25 Garden Mints in meats and drinkes is very good for the stomacke, it warmeth and openeth it, and drieth vp all super∣fluous humours therein, voydeth the paine and helpeth digestion. 26 Drinke two or three branches with the iuice of a sowre Pom∣granate against the Hicket, vomiting, and chollericke passion, which hath a laske withall. 27 Seethe Mints in water, and drinke it three dayes to cure the gryping and gnawing of the bel∣lie, and the chollicke, and to prouoke the termes. 28 Stampe Mints with parched Barley meale and apply it to tumors & swel∣lings to consume them, and to the headach to cure it. 28 Mixe the iuice with Honied water, and droppe it into the eares to cure their paine, and gargarise therewith to auoyde the roughnesse of the tongue and throate. 30 Water Mints are much of like nature to garden Mints, and are very good for the grauell and stone in the kidneys, and the strangurie or pissing by drops being boyled in wine & drunke. 31 Apply it to the stinging of Bees & Wasps. 32 Seeth three branches in wine and drinke it fasting to help re∣plection. 33 The iuice mixt with good Treacle and eaten in the mornings, killeth wormes in children. 34 Mints are wholsome to be sodden in windie meates, as peason, &c. and sodden in possit ale with Fennell seede, it increaseth vitall seede. 35 Blood to stop, stampe Mints and apply them. 36 For swooning & weak∣nesse of the heart by feuers or other sickenesse, stampe them with vineger and a little wine, and rub the lips, tongue, teeth and nose, and temples therewith, & dip a toste therein and chewe it, & sucke thereof and swallow it. 37 Liuer, milt, kidneys & bladder stopt, seeth wilde Mints in wine and drinke it with suger. 38 Gomor passion or fluxe of nature, vse powder of Mints dried in an Ouen. 39 Abhorring meat, eate new sodden egges with sauce of Mints and vineger. 40 Belly bound, drinke the iuice of Mints with warme water. 41 Headach of reume, stampe greene Mints with Ladanum and vineger and apply it. 42 Iaundies, vse Mints in syrops: Leprie elephantia, eate Mints. 43 Morphue, mixe powder of Lupines and Mints with vineger & anoynt. 44 Put the iuice of Rue and mints together into the Nose, to amend the

brayne and void all stinke of the mouth or nose. 45 Reines run∣ning, seethe Cassia Lignea, Mints, and housleeke in vineger and plaster it to the reines. 40 Paps with curded milke, seethe the rootes of Holyoke, and grinde them with yolkes of egs, saffron and Mints, and apply it. 47 Shingles or holy fires, mixe Rue and Mints with oyle and vineger, and anoynt therewith to helpe it the same day. 48 Pissing against will, vse the iuice of Mints with Treacle. 49 Spitting of matter or quyttor from the Lungs, vse powder of Mints with other medicines. 50 Wormes, drinke the iuice of Romane Mints. 51 Vomiting of red choller, eate Mints. 52 Forgetfulnesse or Lethargie, seeth red Mints & Rue in strong vineger, and draw vp the vapour thereof into thy Nose. 53 Headach and dasing, of cold cause, apply Mints. 54 Mouth stink, wash w^t the decoction of Aniseeds, Cloues & Mints, or wash with Mint water, or rub it with the powder. 55 Vomit to stop, vse sirrope of Mints. 56 Appetite, eate Sage, Parsley, Mints & Pepper with vineger, with fish or flesh, or vse Cardamon with the iuice of Mints. 57 Hands itch and wormes, anoynt with the iuice. 58 Heart griefes generall, steepe Sage & Mints in white wine, and seeth it and drinke the wine, & apply the herbes to cause appetite. 59 Eyes red, stampe Mints and apply them. 60 Sto∣macke weake and to cause good digestion, boyle powder of Mints with twise so much suger till it be thicke, and keepe it in a wide mouthed glasse, and vse it. 61 Head impost. put the iuice into thy eare three or foure nights. 62 Wormes, frye wormewood and Mints ana like much with salt Butter, and put vineger to it and a little of the Gaule of a beast, and apply it to the belly. 63 Eme∣rods, sit ouer the smoke of dried Mints laid vpō coles of Ash wood. 64 Agew cake, frye red Mints and red Nettles and wormwood of ech an handfull, with fresh butter & apply them as hote as may be suffered. 65 Mouth stinke, wash w^t the iuice, water or decoc∣tion of Mints with some white vineger, or put the iuice of Rue and blacke Mints into the Nose, of ech like: prooued. 66 Iaundies, drinke the broath of Mints sodden with an olde cocke with Cina∣mome and Maces. 67 Shingles, anoint with the iuice of Mints. 68 Vomite to stop, Apply wheat Branne with the iuice of Mints and the white of an egge, or apply the iuice with Frankincense and a little vineger boyled together to the pit of the stomacke.

69 Chollicke, drinke the iuice of Mints with eight cornes of Pepper and a little Hony. 70 Wormes, drinke the iuice with Goates milke. 71 Milke to drie vp, vse Mints. 72 Sciatica, bruise wilde Mints & apply them. 73 Mad, stampe water Mints and apply them to the mids of the browe, and nape of the necke, first tickling the brow to bring sleep, but if he be farre gone, cleane a Tench, and apply the one halfe warme before, and the other be∣hinde. 74 Consumption, vse powder of Mints in thy broaths, and the water of them in thy drinks. 75 Vomit to stop, stampe them with burnt bread and vineger, and heate it on a hote tyle or bricke, and apply it to the stomacke. 76 Loynes paine, apply the seedes of wilde Mints with wheate flowre. 77 Loynes and Belly paine, drinke two drammes of the powder of water Mints with iii. ounces of water of Radish. 78 Pappes hard with con∣congealed milke, seethe Mints with oyle and wine, and apply it. 79 For watrie skabs in childrens hands, mixe the iuice with vineger and Brimstone and anoynt therewith with a feather. 80 Ache and swelling in the stomacke or belly, seeth with Rue in sweete milke, and drinke it. 81 Vomiting much, seethe it with Cummin in wine, and drinke it or eate it. 82 Hycket, ap∣ply powder of Dill seede with the iuice of Mints to the stomacke. 83 The iuice of Mint Roman or white Mint, killeth wormes in the belly, & in the Nostrels. 84 The powder of it cast on meates, helpeth digestion. 85 Browne or garden Mints, vse the decoction of them for the stopping of the Liuer & milt, kidneys and bladder. 86 Tetters, anoynt with the iuice of Mints, vineger & brimstone and be whole. 87 Head wounds, stampe Mints and apply them. 88 Side paine, stampe Mints and seeth them in olde wine or ale, & drinke it with xx. graines of Pepper in the night. 89 Hoarse∣nesse, stampe the crops of Mints, Sage, Fiueleafe & Ginger, and Lycoras, and seeth them in stale ale & streine it and drinke it hote morne & euen, as often as neede is. 90 Dropsie, take nine crops of Mints, nine crops of blinde Nettles, and nine crops of Sage, stampe them and drinke them with stale ale morne and euen, or eate water Cresses with Mints and Parsley dayly. 91 Sto∣macke griefes, stampe Mints, Sage, Cammomile, and good store of Wormewood and sower bread, and boyle them in vi∣neger and apply it warme to the stomacke. 92 Botches, sores

and swellings in the head, stampe Mint Royall and apply it. Ache and stinke in the teeth, seeth it in white wine and vine∣ger, and wash the mouth therewith and rub them with the pow∣der of it. 93 A sawse thereof with vineger causeth appetite. 94 Stitch, seethe two or three handfuls of red Mints, and a handfull of Sage crops in running water to the one halfe, and apply it as hote as may bee suffered in a linnen bag, and warme it againe as often as neede is. 95 Botch to auoyde and vanish away, drinke the iuice of Mint rootes one spoonefull, with some Treacle. 96 Breast flegme, drinke the crops of red Mints, red Nettles and Wormewood, with wine or stale ale first and last.

• Agewe cake 64
• Appetite 56. 93
• Apostume 7. 92. 95
• Backach 6. 27. 77. 80
  • bound 2. 40
• Belching 15
• Bitings venem. 14
• Bladder stopt 37. 85
• Blood to stop 35
• Braine ill 12. 44
• Breasts hard 7. 13. 46. 78
• Breast griefes 96
• Breath stinke 8. 44. 65
• Botch 92. 95
• Chollericke pas. 26
• Chollicke 27. 69
• Consumption 74
• Colour bad 2
• Digestion 12. 19. 25. 60. 84
• Deliuerance 17
• Dropsie 90
• Eares ach 13. 28
  • impost. 61
  • wormes 9
• Eyes red 59
• Emerods 63
• Feuers 36
• Flowers stopt 27
• Forgetfulnesse 21. 51. 52
• Frensie 22. 24. 73
• Gomor pas. 38
• Grauel 30
• Heart griefes 36. 58
• Hands itch 57
• Headach 13. 16. 23. 28. 41. 53
  • impost. 61
  • skabs 79
  • wounds 87
• Hycket 12. 26. 82
• Holy fire 5. 47. 67
• Hoarcenesse 89
• Iaundies 42. 45. 66
• Kidneys stopt 37. 85
• Lepry 42
• Lethargie 21. 51
• Liuer stopt 9. 37. 85.
• Loynes ach 76. 77
• Lothing 37
• Lungs griefes 49
• ...

• Lust to cause 12
• Mad 24. 73
• Mad dog 14
• Memory 12
• Milke to drie vp 78
• Milt griefes 19
  • stopt 9. 37. 85
• Mouth griefes 8
  • stinke 54. 65
• Morphue 43
• Nose stinke 44
• Pissing bed 48
• Poyson 9
• Reines running 38. 45
• Replection 32
• Sciatica 72
• Seede to increase 34
• Shyngles 5. 47. 67
• Side ach 88
• Skabs 42. 79
• Sleepe to cause 24
• Spitting blood 11
  • matter 49
• Sores 92
• Stitch 94
• Stomak bad 12. 25. 39. 60. 91
  • ach 8
  • swolne 8
• Stinging 31
• Stone 30
• Strangury 30
• Swellings 28. 92
• Sweat to cause 16
• Swooning 36
• Teeth ach 92
  • foule 8
  • Stinke 8. 92
• Tetter 86
• Throat rough 28
• Tongue rough 17
• Venom 20
• Voyce ill 89
• Vomit blood 11 matter
• Vomiting much 11. 15. 26. 50. 55. 68. 75. 81
• Vrine stopt 9. 37
• Womens griefes 17
• Wormes 1. 9. 11. 20. 33. 50. 62. 70. 83.