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.

¶ Ash.

ASh: milt paine, seethe the rynd in wine, and drinke it fasting, sixe or seuen dayes, and anoynt the place with Dealthea. 2 Eares deafe, mixe the sappe of greene Ash burned, Aqua vitae, and the iuice of Houslecke ana one spoonefull, with a spoonefull of the grease of an Eele that is red beneath the nauill, and put therof with tents into the eare. 3 Plague: distil three ounces of the sap, with as much white wine, and drinke euery three houres, and at the ende of xxiiii. houres thou shalt be cured. 4 Bitings or stin∣gings of Serpents, stamp the leaues and apply them, or drinke the iuice. Vomit to stop, seethe the tender leaues in strong vineger, then stampe them and apply them to the stomake or belly. For wheales and blisters in the face, stamp the fresh leaues in the midst of the spring, let them stand to mollifie fiue daies, then distil them in Balneo Mariae, and wash therewith three weekes & be whole. 5 For the Megrim and Toothach, mix asshes of the barke with spettle and apply it: Winde in the guts: drinke the red seede with wine. 6 Eares paine, put in the sap of burned Ash. 7 And

with the grease of an Eele, and oyle of Bitter Almonds for deafe∣nesse. 8 Stomake griefes generall, drinke powder of the seedes of Ash, Flaxe, and Cummin of eche like much with hote water or hote wort. 9 Milt griefes, seethe a bough in wine or water, and vse it. 10 Greene sicknesse, seethe powder of the Keyes with Betonie, red Sage, red Mynts, and Magerom in running water from a pottell to a quart, and drinke thereof a good draught with Sugar warme morning and euening. 11 Blood to stop, smell to Mosse that groweth at the roote of an Ash tree. 12 Feuer Quarten, seethe the middle barke of an Ash with Centory, Rue, and Wormwood in water or wine a long time, then streine it and drinke it with clarified hony. 13 Milte griefes, take faire Ba∣rowes grease and asshes of Ash, of each two pound, seeth them in a gallon of running water to the one halfe, then streine it, and let it stand all night, then fleete off the grease, and streine it often, and keepe it in boxes, and anoynt therewith, and seethe a good quan∣titie of the rootes of yong Ash plants with as much Wormwood in a gallon of wine, to the one halfe, and drinke thereof at euening hote, and at morning cold. 14 Eares sounding, bore a hole in the midst of an Ash in May, and put a reede in it, and let it stand foure or fiue dayes, and gather the water, and receiue vp the fume, and also dip tents therein, and put them into the eare: Milt hard seethe the barke in wine and drink it. 15 Matrix grinding, seethe Asshen asshes in water, and dip a cloth therein, and apply it all ouer y^e belly. A precious water for sores: mix fine asshes of greene Ash with faire water, and stirre them often dayly, & to the clearest of it put a litle vineger and Allum, and seethe it & keepe it to wash sores withall. 16 Emerods to stop, vse powder of Akorns, Ash keyes, & a litle Bole Armoneak in warme broth or drink, or rere egs. 17 To breake a byle or sore within one houre & without paine, put asshes of the inner barke of greene Ash into a clout like a nut, and moysten it in hote water, & bind it to the place: prooued. 18 Black Iaundies, drinke the sap with a good draught of Ale and some Saffron two houres before meate, and there will rise shortly blisters all ouer the body, and when they are ready pricke them and let the humour come out. 19 Liuer and milte griefes, stamp the inner bark of greene Ash, and strein it with white wine, and seethe it till the third part be wasted, and drinke it with Su∣gar

Candy. 20 Eares ach and dull put in the sap. 21 Teethach and hollow, put in Triacle, and then put in a stick of Ash burned at the ende hote burning. 22 Wormes, seethe the rynde of a Pomegranate, and Ash rootes in wine and drinke it, the same hel∣peth the Tenasmus. 23 Milte griefes, seethe the rynd in Wine and drinke it. 24 Burnings, boyle thicke Creame, and the Mos∣sie barke of an Ash, till it come to an oyle, and so keepe it for that vse. For the swelling of the stomake and to cause appetite, stamp the rootes of Ash and of Fennel of eche like much, and drinke it with wine. 25 For the stone, drinke powder of the barke of a yong Ash that beareth keyes in winter and sommer, and vse it al∣so in brothes. Eares deafe, put in the sap of greene Ash with ho∣ny. 26 Seethe the rynde in wine, and drink it for the torments of the milt: no Serpent will come neere the Ash tree, nor the shadow of it. 27 Eares dull and for wormes in them, put in the sap with hony three houres, then turne it downe and doe so often. 28 For Festers, Mermoles, sores of the yard, and all other sores, take Ash that beareth no keyes for a man, but for a woman that which beareth keyes, burne the bowes to asshes, and with cleare well water make strong lee therewith, and put thereto a third part of strong vineger, and anoint the sore therewith whatsoeuer it be, and lay Diaculum aboue it, it healeth all sores. 29 The barke sodden in wine is good for all griefes of the milt. 30 The leaues and barke boyled in wine and drunke, doe open and com∣fort the liuer and milt, and healeth the diseases of the sides, and so will they doe, being boyled in oyle and layd to. 31 The leaues and barke with the tender crops taken in the same maner, are good for the dropsey, for they purge the water: It is good for fat and grosse folkes, to drinke three or foure leaues with wine day∣ly to make them leane. 32 The iuice of the leaues, crops, and bark drunk in wine, preserueth from all venom and venomous bi∣tings. 33 Lee made with the asshes of the bark, cureth the white scurfe & such like roughnesse of the skin. 34 The seede prouo∣keth vrine, increaseth naturall seede, and moueth Venus, especi∣ally being taken with a Nutmeg. 35 The leaues of the wilde Ashtree boyled in wine and drunke, are good against the paine of the side and the stopping of the liuer, and slake their bellies that haue the dropsie. 36 Distill the barke of Ash and drink the wa∣ter

for the Iaundes and the stone. If a man or beast be bitten of a∣ny venemous beast, let them drinke the iuice of Ash tops with good wine if they haue no Feuer, or els with wine delayed with water and stampe the yong sprigs and apply them to the byting: the same drinke is good for the dropsie. 37 Milt swollen, drink dayly in a cup of Ash. 38 To become leane, drinke the iuice of Ash leaues now and then with wine. 39 Leapry, anoynt with asshes of the barke mixt with water.

• Appetite 24
• Apost. 17
• Belly ache 5
• Byle 17
• Bytings venom. 4. 32. 36
• Blisters to make 4. 17
• Blacke Iaundes 18
• Blood to stop 11
• Burnings 24
• Dropsie 31. 35. 36
• Eares dul 2. 7. 20. 25. 27 noyse 14. paine 6. 20
• Emerods 16
• Face deformed 4
• Fatnesse 31. 38
• Festers 28
• Feuers quarten 12
• Greene sicknesse 10
• Grosenesse 31. 38
• Head Megrim 5
• Iaundes 36
• Leane to be 31. 38
• Leapry 39
• Liuer griefes 19. 30. 35
• Lust to cause 34
• Marmol 28
• Matrix grinding 15
• Milt griefes 1. 9. 12. 19. 23. 26. 29. 30. 37
• Plague 3
• Poyson 32
• Seede to increase 34
• Sides griefes 30. 35
• Skin deformed 33
• Sores 28
• Stomak griefes 8. swolne 24
• Stone 25. 38
• Teethach 5. 21. hollow 21
• Venom 32. 36
• Vomiting 4
• Vrine stopt 34
• Wheales 4
• Windinesse 5
• Wormes 22
• Yarde sores 28