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.

¶ Pellitorie, or Magistrantia.

PEllitorie, or Magistrantia of Spaine, drinke it with wine a∣gainst all poyson, corrupt aire and infection of the plague. 2 Stampe the rootes it selfe, or with the leaues, and apply it to carbuncles, plague sores, botches, apost. and swellings. 3 Drinke the roote with wine against the rigorous fits of old feuers, and the dropsie, to prouoke sweate, to comfort the stomacke, and to cause appetite and digestion, to dissolue windinesse of the belly & flanks, to heale brusings & burstings, and to dissolue congealed blood in the body. 4 Stampe the rootes & leaues, and apply it to bitings of mad dogs, and venemous beasts, and stingings. 5 The wilde master-wort called herbe Gerard, stampt and applied, is good for the goute, and cureth the Emerods being bathed with y^e decoction thereof. 6 Chewe the roote of Pellitory a good while, and holde it in thymouth to clense the head and braine, and to helpe the aking

and loose teeth. 7 Mixe powder of y^e roote with milke of Wart∣wort, or Spourge, and Galbanum, and apply a litle of it to any a∣king or rotten teeth, and breake them, and to plucke them out. 8 It expelleth winde mightely from the stomacke, guts and mo∣ther, and is good for the gnawing stomacke, the chollike, and to prouoke the termes and vrine. 9 Teeth-ache, seethe the roote in tarte wine, and bathe them therewith. 10 Barrennesse of colde cause, and for the strangling of the mother, and for the colde disea∣ses, as the palsie, the falling sicknesse, and nummednesse, drinke the roote with wine. 11 Feuer quarten, drinke halfe a spoonefull of the powder of it before the fit. 12 It causeth a sweete breath, strengtheneth all the senses or wits, it is good against the plague, and all infectious diseases, poyson, venemous bitings, shortnesse of breath, obstructions, the dropsie, and the griefes of the milt. 13 The herbe, iuice, powder or water, is good against all colde griefes of the feuers, and of the stomacke, and all venom and poy∣son, being taken moderately as the cause requireth. 14 Seethe it in wine, and drinke it morne and euen to helpe the colde lungs, shortnesse of breath, the moyst and cold cough, to expell vrine, and the stones of the kidneis, the flowers, seconds, and dead birth, to mitigate the sciatica, and colde griefes, and colde aches, to pro∣uoke sweate, to driue out the dropsie, to ingender naturall seede, and it may be vsed for Lacerpitium. It is much of like nature to Angelica and Louage. 15 The rootes or iuice applied, taketh away swellings, hardnesse, and gatherings of humors. 16 Their iuice consumeth rotten flesh, and gangrenes. 17 Drinke powder of the roote with wine or ale against the palsie, the crampe, the fal∣ling sicknesse, (See Angelica, Louage, Piretrum, Ptarum.) 18 Take one ounce of powder of the roote with white wine hote fasting, to voide the chollike and paine of the side. 19 Seethe it with figs in vineger or wine, and gargarise therewith to clense the braine. 20 Tongue palsie, chew it & hold it in the mouth. 21 Pal∣sie and goute, stampe it and seethe it in wine, and apply it: but if it be greene, stampe it & soke it fifteene dayes in wine, then boyle it well, & put thereto oyle and waxe, & it is the best oyntment for the griefs aforesaid. 22 Head to cleanse, chew it iii. mornings fasting. 23 Dropsie, seethe it in wine w^t Hysope and vse it. 24 Frecles, seeth it in vineger and apply it. 25 Drinke water of the decoction

of the roote for the palsie of y^e tongue. 26 Teeth-ach of wormes, apply the powder with hony. 27 Cough, chewe it. 28 Canker, vse the powder of it. 29 Headache, chewe it iii. mornings. 30 To drawe out teeth, stampe it and steepe it 40. dayes. in vineger, then braye it and keepe it to thy vse, and when neede is, couer the other teeth with waxe, and couer the aking teeth with the medicin, and within one houre plucke it out with thy finger, and holde it in thy mouth. 31 Bastard Pellitorie, or Bartrum, or Piretrum. 32 The roote taken with hony, is good against the falling euill, the apo∣plexia, the long, old & cold diseases of the head & braine. 33 Seeth it in vineger, & hold it in thy mouth for y^e tooth-ache. 34 Sweate to cause, boyle it in oyle, and anoint therewith: it is excellent for members that are colde, benummed, foundred, or striken with the palsie. 35 The seede or roote sodden in wine and drunke, driueth downe by vrine and seege, colde & tough humors: it is generally good for all diseases that come of colde causes. 36 Put it into the nose to cause much sneesing. 37 Stampe the leaues and flowers, and apply it to bruises to disperse the congeled blood. 38 Steepe the rootes in vineger, and make them into pilles, and hold them in the mouth to purge y^e braine, and to cease y^e tooth-ache. 39 Seethe the roote or iuice in oyle, and anoint the body well with it to put a∣way the feuer, colde, tertian quarten, and it is good for the colde and swolne stomacke. Ptermaca chewed and holden in the mouth, cleanseth the braine as strongly as Bartrum, and is good for the tooth-ache, & is good in sallads, as Taragon or Rocket. 40 The flowers cause much sneesing. 41 Stampe it and apply it to draw away swellings, and olde hard lumps, and to bruises. It is of the nature of Bartrum or Piretrum. 42 Ache of the head and teethe, chewe Piretrum iii. or iiii. times a day iii. dayes. 43 For the pal∣sie, choller, griefes of the stomacke, womans griefes, head-ache, ache of the sides, backe and reines, the lunacie, and all other sicke∣nesses, drinke iii. spoonefull of the fine powder of it with Mulse, or temper it with hony or Mulse, and drinke ii. cyathes. 44 Scabs and breaking out, seethe it in water till the water be clammy and yellowe, and wash therewith.

• Aches colde 14
• Aire corrupt 1
• Appetite 3
• Apostume 2. 15. 41
• Backe-ache 4. 43
• Barrennesse 10
• ...

• Belly-ache windie 38
• Benummed 10. 34
• Bitings venom. 4. 12
• Botch 2
• Breath short 12. 14 stinke 12. 14
• Bruse 3. 37. 41
• Bursten 3
• Carbuncle 2
• Chollike 8. 18
• Choller 43
• Crampe 17
• Colde griefes 10. 13
• Cough 14. 27
• Digestion 3
• Dead childe 14
• Dropsie 3. 12. 14. 23
• Emerods 5
• Falling euill 10. 17. 33
• Feuers cold 39 olde 3. 13
  • quarten 11
• Flowers stopt 8. 14. 35
• Freckles 24
• Gangrene 16
• Goute 5. 21
• Hardnes 15. 41
• Head-ache 6. 32. 42. 43
  • clensing 6. 19. 22. 32. 36 38. 39
• Kanker 28
• Lungs griefes 14
• Lunatike 43
• Mad 12. 43
• Mad dog 4
• Matrix suffoc. 10 windie 8
• Milt griefes 1. 2
• Obstructions 12
• Palsie 10. 17. 21. 25. 32. 34. 43
• Plague 1. 12
• Plague sore 2
• Poyson 1. 13
• ...Purgation
• Sciatica 14
• Seede to cause 14
• Sicknes gen. 10. 12. 13. 14. 35. 43
• Side paine 18. 43
• Skabs 44
• Skin griefes 44
• Sneesing to cause 36. 40
• Speech lost 20. 25
• Sores rotten 16
• Stomacke cold 13. 19 weake 3 windye 8 griefes 43 swolne 39
• Stone 14
• Swellings 2. 15. 41
• Sweate to cause 3. 14. 34
• Teeth-ache 6. 7. 9. 26. 30. 33 38. 39. 42 loose 6 &c.
• Tongue palsie 20. 25
• Venom 13, (See poyson bitings
• Vrine stopt 8. 14. 35
• Windinesse 38
• Womens griefes 43