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.

¶ Saxifrage.

SAxifrage: The seede or roote drunke in wine, or the decoction of it in wine, prouoketh vrine, breaketh the stone in the kidneis and bladder, and is singuler against the strangury, and stoppings of the kidneys and bladder. 2 The root taken in the same maner, expelleth the termes, seconds, and dead birth. 3 Powder of the roote taken with Suger, comforteth and warmeth the stomacke, helpeth digestion, cureth the gripings and gnawings of the belly, and the chollike, and expelleth windinesse. 4 The same with the seedes, are very good for any convulsion or crampe, apoplexia, cold feuers, all venemous bitings, or any inward poyson. 5 The same drunke with wine and vineger, cureth the plague: and holden in the mouth, it preserueth from the same, and purifieth the corrupt ayre. 6 The same chewed, purgeth the braine, swageth the tooth∣ach, restoreth speech, and is good against the Apoplexia: and so it doth, being boiled in vineger alone: or with some water put there∣to, and after holden in the mouth. 7 The iuice of the leaues cleanseth all spots and freckles, beautifieth the face, and leaueth a good colour. 8 It cleanseth rotten sores, being put into them: and so doe the leaues, bruised and applyed. 9 The distilled wa∣ter alone or with vineger, cleareth the sight, and taketh away all darkenesse, being put into the eyes. 10 The rootes haue the na∣ture of Parsley rootes. The same dried, may be vsed in stead of Pepper. 11 The same vsed any way, in powders, potions, or electuaries is very good for the grosse and viscus humors in the

stomacke, and the colde distemperance of the same, and for the passions of the chollike and matrixe, all poyson, and ache of the bowels, the stone of the kidneys, and to driue downe the vrine and termes. 12 The seede also doth all the aforesaid, and so doth the distilled water being drunke three or foure spoones full at once. 13 And the same drunke with Castorie, is good for the Palsie and many cold griefes. 14 The iuice applied, healeth the sores of the head. 15 Wash the face with the water daily, to auoyd the deformities thereof, and to make it faire & cleere. 16 The rootes may be condyted in suger, being first sodden and vsed for the cold∣nesse of the stomacke, the chollike and stone. 17 The rootes and seedes are better then the distilled water. 18 Make a plaster of the grease of Hennes, Geese and Hedghogs, with the seedes of Gromell & Saxifrage, and Gotes blood, and apply it for the stran∣gury and stone. 19 Drinke foure ounces of the water, with two drams of powder of burned Turpentine, twise a week early in the morning, to breake and expell the stone in the bladder. 20 Stone, seeth it in strong wine, and drinke it continually. 21 Stone in the reines and bladder, make a syrope with the water of the leaues and suger, and eate thereof: prooued. (See Parietarie.) 22 Chollike, stone, and strangury, seeth the roote in wine, and drinke it, or vse the powder of it with rere egges. 23 Stone, stampe Filipendula, and Saxifrage, and drinke the iuice morne and euen. 24 Pissing blood, stampe Saxifrage, Ambrose, and Parsly, of ech like much, and drinke if with Cowes milke.

• Apoplexia 4. 6
• Belliach 3. 11. 12. 16
• Bitings venemous 4
• Braine to cleanse 6
• Chollike 3. 11. 12. 22
• Crampe 4
• Dead childe 2
• Deliuerance 2
• Eyes dull 9
• Face deformed 7. 15
• Flowers stopt 2. 11. 12
• Feuers colde 4
• Head sores 14
• Matrixe suffoc. 11. 12
• Palsie 13
• Plague 5
• Poyson 4. 11
• Seconds 2
• Skinne deformed 7. 15
• Sores 8
• Speech lost 6
• Stomacke colde 3. 11. 12. 16
• Stone 1. 11. 12. 16. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
• Strangury 1. 18. 22
• Teeth ach 6
• ...

• Vrine stopt 1. 11. 12
• Windinesse 3