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.

¶ Barley.

BArley: Bake a cake of Barley flower, and vineger, burne ••t to coles, and rub the teeth therewith to cleanse them. Mixe newe Pigeons doung and Barley meale, with vineger, and ap∣ply it to the Shingles three dayes, and then renew it if neede be. 2 Boyle Barley and Lycoras in water, and vse it to helpe the Feuer and impostumes of the breast and short ribs. The meale mixt with vineger and egs and applyed to impostumes, letteth them from growing any further. 3 A plaster of the meale with Turpentine, hony and Lilie rootes, softneth and ripeneth impo∣stumes. For Felons and rancklings, seethe meale of Linseede and Barley in Ale, and apply it. 4 Headach: Mixe Barley meale with Hartes grease, and the iuice of Sorrell, and apply it to the temples. 5 Breast griefes, make pottage with Barley meale, Baulme, Mynt and water, and vse it. Cods swolne, frye Barley meale with hony, & apply it. Chafing of the flanke, or shares: An∣oynt with oyle of Roses, and the meale of Beanes, Fitches, and Barley. 6 To open a wound that is closed, and too soone whole. Take hony, and the whites of egs of eche like much, and a litle Barley meale, and anoynt therewith three or foure times a day. 7 For a swelling, frye Barley meale and powder of Cummin with hony, and apply it. Seethe Barley with ten times so much water of an Easterne spring, with a slowe fire twelue houres, till it haue the colour of Beere, and drinke thereof foure oun∣ces at once against chollerike heate, obstructions to mooue sweate and vrine, to cause sleepe, to alay thirst, to nourish, for all griefes of the breast, and for Burning agues, to sweate take it warme, to lay thirst, take it colde sometimes with Sugar, some∣times without. 8 It helpeth the heate and rednesse of the vrine and the cough comming of heate. 9 Cough, make pottage with Barley and butter and eate it: and drinke Barley water with Li∣coras. 10 To dry vp a reume, seethe asshes of Barley chaffe in water, and set thy feete and legs ouer it, and couer thee well to sweate, and after wash thy legs and handes vp to the knees and elboes, and dry them, and lye downe in thy bed warme, and put a tent of Labdanum into thy nose, &c. 11 Burning or scalding,

apply Barley meale with the iuice of Purcelaine. 12 Gout, ap∣ply Barley meale, with the iuice of Nightshade or vineger. Head∣ach: apply Barley meale with Frankincense, and the white of an egge two dayes with a paper, it helpeth the Megrim. 13 To make haires growe where thou wilt, burne Barley bread with Salt, and punne it with Barrowes grease, & anoynt. 14 Apo∣stumes hote and Feuerous, apply a plaister of Barley meale, Mal∣lowes, whites of egs, and fresh grease. Nose bleeding, stampe Ribwort, and Housleek with Barley meale, and apply it about thy necke. 15 Paps with curded milke, apply Barley meale with vineger. Emerods, steep crums of Barley bread in womans milk or Goats milke, with the yolke of an egge and Saffron, and apply it to voyde the paine. 16 Headach of choller, drink water sodden with Barly, & hold Sugar Candy in thy mouth. 17 For griefes of the liuer, and the Iaundes, eate the pap of Barley sodden with water & butter, & drink Barley water to restore the taste. 18 Li∣uer inflamed, drinke Barley water. Belly lose, vse pottage of Barley, and Barley water. Bloody fluxe, drinke Barley water. 19 Loynes ach, vse Barley pottage with butter. Loynes apostu∣med, stamp Barley meale three ounces, Figs two ounces, and the iuice of Mallowes sixe ounces, and apply it. 20 Feuers, vse Barley water to bedward, and apply as much butter as a beane to thy nauill. Face swolne, seethe cleane Barley into pappe, and apply it hote. 21 Cods and yarde swollen, boyle Barley meale and Cummin, and apply it. Freckles, seethe flower of Beanes, and Barley in womans milke, and apply it. 22 Shingles, apply Barley meale with Doues doung and vineger. Eyes watring, stampe Camphire with Barley meale, the yolke of an egge, and a little vineger, and apply it. Eyes hurt or brused, seethe Red Ro∣ses in water, and stamp them with Barley meale, and the yolke of a rawe egge, or apply Barley meale with the iuice of Mal∣lowes and the yolke of an egge. 23 For the Hoste: Mixe Bar∣ley meale and Salt ana with Butter, and make pellets thereof, as much as halfe a Wallnut, and eate two of them in the mor∣ning fasting. 24 Breast griefes, seethe Barley meale in water, and put Fresh butter to it, and eate it often. 25 Breast flegme: seethe Isope, fat Figges, Lycoras, and Barley in water, and drinke it. 25 For griefes of the liuer, and swelling of the

right side, apply a plaister of Barley meale, vineger, & the iuice of Houseleeke, and Morell, and anoynt the side with the iuice of Pe∣nyroyall. 27 Cods swollen, melt Sheepes sewet in Red wine, and put thereto Barley meale, and apply it. Feuer quarten: on the sicke day eate a hote cake of Barley meale, and drink thereto a good draught of Red wine, before the sit. 28 And then stampe foure Plants of Plantine with their leaues, and streme them with White wine, and foure spoonefuls of colde water, and drinke thereof before the fitt take thee. 29 Knees-ach, frye Sheepes tallowe with Goats doung, and Barley meale, and ap∣ply it. Apostume to breake, apply Barley meale with hony, and the iuice of Smallach or of Wormwood. 30 Vse Barley meale in all medicines for Apostumes and Impostumes. 31 Chollik and Ilyake: apply a plaister of Barley meale, Wormewood, vi∣neger & hony. Teeth to be white: rub them with Barley meale, hony and salt. Legs swollen: Mixe the iuice of Wallwort with Waxe, vineger and Barley meale, of eche like much, and apply it. 32 Morphue, vse a bath of Barley chaffe, and make fine pow∣der of Barley meale, Fenegrek, and Boras of eche like much. Mixe it with the iuice of an Onyon, and cleare hony, and anoynt therewith. 33 Chollik: seethe meale of Linseede, and Barley, with oyle of Camomill, and apply it hote to the nauill. Yard-ach and swelling, seethe Barley branne with wine and hony, and apply it. 34 Wilde fire and creeping vlcers, and all burnings, frye Barley meale with oyle, and apply it. 35 Boyle Barley meale, with Figs in honyed water, to dissolue swellings, both hot and colde, and with Pitch, Rosin, and Pigeons doung, to ripen all hard swellings, with Tarre, oyle and waxe, and the vrine of a childe to digest and rypen the hard swellings of the necke, called Strumae. 36 The same with Melilot, and the heads of Poppy, swageth the ach of the side, and with Linseede, Fenegrek & Rue, and it is good to be layd to the paine and windinesse of the belly and guts. 37 Barley giuen with Myrtles or wine, or wilde tart Peares, or with Brambles, or with the rynde of a Pomegra∣nate, stoppeth the running of the belly. Plaisters made with Barley meale: is good against the scurfe and leapry. 38 The same mixt with vineger, or Quinces, swageth hote inflamations of the Gout. Boyled with vineger and Pitch, and applyed to the

ioynts, it stayeth the falling downe of reume and humours into them. 39 The bread thereof doeth not nourish so well as the bread of Wheate or Spelt: the greatest and whitest is the best. 40 Take Barly hulled one pound brused, seethe it in ten pound of water in a vessell of earth or tinne close stopt to the one halfe, coole it, and seethe it and drinke thereof to quench hote burning choller in vehement Feuers. 41 You may put to it the seeds of white Poppy and Letuce, not onely to coole, but also to cause sleepe. 42 And to clense the lungs, shortnesse of breath, & hoarse∣nesse: Put in Figs, Lycoras, Reasins of the sunne, Anniseeds, and a little Isope with Sugar, and seethe all, and let it stand close co∣uered till it be colde, then streine it and vse it. 43 Seethe Barley meale, Linseede, Fenegrek, and the iuice of Rue with Malmesey, and apply it warme to the belly, to voyde the swelling and paine of the guts. Seethe the meale with vineger, to swage the hote burning Gout, & all hote Inflamations of the body. 44 Seethe the Meale in hony with Rosin, and the iuice of Celandine, to heale olde rotten sores. With oyle & meale of Fenegrek, to swage the swelling of the stomake. 45 Temper the meale with hony and Poppy, to helpe the swelling heate of the priuities and paine of the side. Seethe Barley with Fennell, and sup it to increase milke greatly. With Rosen & Doues doung, it ripeneth all hard∣nesse. With Mellilot and Poppy heads, it swageth the paine of the side. 46 Giue Barley halfe sodden to Hens to make them lay egs the oftener and greater. 47 Lye three dayes & three nightes in thy bed couered with sodden Barley, to cure the Dropsie per∣fectly, though the belly be greatly swollen. 48 Seethe Bar∣ley, dry Beanes, and Lycoras, cut small, of eche like much, in wa∣ter: and drinke thereof first and last fiue dayes or more, to destroy any Impostume, and to cast it out. 49 Mixe asshes of burned Barley with burned Roch Allom and vse it to galde Horses backes: and for Fistulaes, and to eate out dead flesh, but as it shall heale, put in more Barley and lesse Allom. 50 Burne Barley bread with Salt, and mixe it with Bores grease, and anoynt what place thou wilt, and haires will growe there. 51 Seethe strong Ale with a gentle fire till it be thicke, and vse it to olde rotten sores and aches.

• Ache 51
• Apostumes 2. 3. 14. 29. 30. 34. 35. 45.
• Backe-ache 18. 19. 51
• Belly-ache 36. see chol. 51 loose. 18. 37. swolne 43. 44. 47
• Bloody-flixe 18
• Brest griefes 5. 7. 23. 24. 42. Impost. 2
• Breath short 42
• Breaste sore 15
• Burnings 11
• Chafings 5
• Chollike 30. 33. 36. 43
• Cods swolne 5. 21. 27. 33. 45
• Consumption 7
• Cough 9 hote 7
• Dropsie 47
• Eyes watring and hurts 22
• Emerodes 15
• Face swolne 20
• Fellons 3
• Feuers 2. 20. hote 7. 40. quarten 27
• Fistula 4
• Flegme 25
• Fluxes 18. 37
• Frecles 21
• Goute 12. 38. 43
• Hardnesse 3. 5. 35. 45
• Head-ache 4. 12. 16
• Haire to growe 13. 50
• Hennes to lay 46
• Horcenesse 42
• Horsebacke sore 49
• Iaundies 17
• Iliake passion 30
• Impostume 48
• Inflammation 43
• Iointes griefes 38
• Kernels 35
• Knees-ache 29
• Leapry 38
• Liuer griefes 17. 18. 25
• Loynes apost. 19 ache 18
• Lungs griefes 23. (see breast)
• Milke to increase 45
• Morphue 32
• Necke swolne 35
• Nose bleeding 14
• Obstructions 7
• Pusands 2. 7. 40
• Ranclings 3
• Reume 10. 38
• Shingles 1. 22. 34
• Side-ache 36. 45. 46. swolne 25. 2
• Skalding 11
• Skurffe 38
• Sleepe to cause 7. 41
• Sores 6. 44. 51
• Stomake swolne 44
• Swellings 7. 34. 43. 44. 45
• Sweate to cause 7
• Taste lost 17
• Teeth foule 1. 31
• Thirst 7
• Throte kernell 35
• Vrine hote 8 stopt 7
• Wilde fire 34
• Woundes 6
• Yard swolne 21. 33. 45