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CYperus, or English Galangal, make powder of ye root with Amber & Pepper, & drink it for the grauel, stone & stopping of vrine, and to swage the paine. 2 Matrix paine of wind, drinke one dram of the root with good white wine. 3 Sores moyst, put in powder of the roots. 4 The roots boyled & drunk, prouoke v∣rine and termes, expelleth the stone, & is good for the dropsie, poy∣son, venemous bytings and stingings. 5 Mother, cold, and stopt,
seethe it in water and bathe therein warme. 6 Vse powder there∣of to old running sores of the mouth and secret partes that waste the flesh, layd on with wine. 7 It is very good to be put into hote oyntments & plaisters. 8 The seeds drunk with water, stop the flixe and all superfluous running foorth of flowers, but too much thereof taken causeth headach. 9 The roots laid among clothes, giueth them a sweet smell. 10 Powder of the root mixt with as much powder of Bayes, and drunke with the vrine of a chast boy and also applyed on the belly, helpeth the dropsie marueilously. (See Spignell, Galangall.)