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.

¶ Tamariske.

TAmariske: it is a medicine of excellent power and vertue against the stopping & hardnes of the milt, if it be but drunke out of, being made into a vessell to drinke it. 2 The decoction of

the leaues and yong springs boyled in wine with a little vineger and drunke, doth heale the stopping and hardnes of the milt, and so doth the iuice drunke with wine. 3 Teeth-ache, seethe the bran∣ches and leaues in wine, and hold it hote in thy mouth. 4 Flowers to stop, seeth the leaues in water, and sit in it hote. 5 Lice & nits, seethe it and wash therewith to kill them. 6 The fruite of the great Tamariske, is good against spitting of blood, to stop the flowers and the laske, and against venemous bitings. 7 The same fruite is vsed in stead of galles in medicines for the griefes of the mouth and eyes. 8 The barke is of the same vertue that the fruite is of. 9 The leaues, wood, roote, and iuice sodden in wine and drunke, helpeth the griefes of the lungs, milt, kidneis, & blad∣der: it driueth foorth melancholie, it helpeth spitting of blood, and the excessiue flowing of termes and all other fluxes, the Iaundies, and all other griefes that come of obstructions. 10 The roote sodden with Reasins and drunke, helpeth the Leapry, because it cleanseth and healeth the milt, whereof the Leapry commeth. 11 A pyggin made of the branches thereof, is good for them to drinke in that be splenetike. 12 The decoction of the leaues is good for women that be pale to sit in, when they are troubled with the whites. 13 Lee made of the ashes killeth lice and nittes. 14 The ashes cast vpon spreading sores doeth drye them vp, and helpeth burnings with fire. 15 Vse powder of it in bread for the quarten Feuer and the Dropsie. 16 The fruite is like Galles, and may be vsed for them. 17 A plaster thereof swageth swellings. 18 The barke is good for the same purpose. 19 The ashes of the wood applyed to the conuenient place, stoppeth the outragious flowing of the matrix. 20 The broth of the leaues is good to sitte in for women that haue a loose mother in perill of falling downe. 21 The barke of the rootes of heath may be vsed in steade of the barke of the roote of Tamariske, rather then the barke of quickebeame. 22 The perfume of Tamariske is good for colde apostumes. 23 The broth of it sodden with Reasins drunke, is good for the Leapry. 24 Tamariske dressed after the maner of Guiacum for the French pockes, is thought to haue the like vertues. 25 Milt griefes, stampe the leaues with vi∣neger and apply them.

• Apostumes 22
• Biting venom. 6
• Bladder griefes 9
• Burnings 14
• Dropsie 15
• Eyes griefes 7
• Feuer quarten 15
• Flowres to stop 4. 6. 9. 19
• Fluxes 6. 9
• French pockes 24
• Iaundies 9
• Kidneis griefes 9
• Leapry 10. 23
• Lice 5. 13
• Lungs griefes 9
• Matrix fluxe 19 falling 20
• Melancholy 9
• Milt griefe 1. 2. 9. 11. 25
• Mouth griefe 7
• Nits 5. 13
• Obstructions 9
• Sores 14
• Spitting blood 6. 9
• Swellings 17
• Teeth-ache 3
• Whites 12. 19. 20
• Womens griefes 12