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.
¶ Satyrion.
SAtyrion prouoketh lust, nourisheth and strengtheneth the body. 2 Seeth it in potage, to restore nature that is lost. 3 Drinke it with tart red wine, against the bowing backe of the necke: the herbe is of like nature as the roote. 4 Satyrion royall, or Palma Christi bruised & drunke in wine, prouoketh vomite, and purgeth the stomacke and belly, by meanes whereof it cureth the old feuer quarten, after conuenient purgation, if as much as ones thombe of the root be taken with wine before the fit come, (See Orchis.)
- Consumption 12
- Feuer quarten 4
- Necke bowing backe 3
- Purgation 4
- Vomite to cause 4
