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.

Comferie.

COmferie, the roots stampt and drunke, are good for spitting of blood, & al inward wounds & ruptures. 2 Bruse it & apply it to heale fresh wounds wonderfully. 3 The root boiled & drunke, clenseth y^e brest, & cureth the griefs of the lungs, & so it doth mixed with sugar, syrrops or hony, & often licked. 4 for al tumors & hote inflammations, especially of the fundament, stamp it with y^e leaues of groundswel & apply it. 5 Ruptures & broken bones, stamp thē & apply them. 6 To stop the bloody fluxe & terms, seethe the root in water & drink it. 7 Chew therof to void thirst. 8 Roste the roots in the embers, & eat them fasting 3. daies against ruptures & bur∣sting. It helpeth together broken bones, it stoppeth all fluxes of blood, & vomiting blood, the iuice being drunk with red wine and a litle mastick. 9 Hoarsenesse, eat powder of it, and of Elecampana with hony fasting. 10 Bones broken, stampe it with dasies, egri∣monie, and vineger, & apply it til it be whole. 11 Roste the roots of elecampana and Comferie, of eche like much, or seethe them in water to the one halfe, then put thereto a third part of clarified ho∣nie, & make it in an electuarie, and vse it morne & euen for the chin∣cough. 12 Fluxe to stop, apply the iuice of Cōfery & both plantins

with the burnt clay of an old ouen or fornace to the belly. 13 Bur∣stings & broken bones, eat the rosted roots with hony. 14 Matrix rent by trauaile of childbirth, put in powder of Comfery and Cy∣namom. 15 Matrix griefes, drinke Comfery with Ale or water three daies. 16 Bloodyfluxe wash the root in cold water, & scrape it with a knife of bone or iuorie, or of a harts horne, and eate there∣of two ounces or more: but eate no vineger that day, for that ta¦keth away the vertue of the roote. 17 Bursten, put the iuice into thy bread, and eat the roote either rawe or roasted. 18 Teethach, seethe it in vineger, & hold thy mouth ouer it. 19 Brused, drinke two spoonfuls of the iuice of Comfery, & scabious morn and euen, or stamp Comfery, housleek, orpin & floure, & apply it. 20 Flow∣ers to stop, seeth Cōfery in rūning water, & drink it. 21 Spitting blood, drinke Osmund and Comfery with stale ale 9. daies and be whole. 22 If a man that is wounded drink Comfery & keep it, he shal liue, if not, he shal die. 23 Veine broken in the brest, frye the roots with eggs & meale, and eate them. 24 Or seeth thē and slice them, and dry them, & vse the powder of them with wine and water.

• Blood casting 8
• Bloody fluxe 8. 16
• Bones broken 5. 8. 10. 13
• Brest cleansing 3
• Bruised 19
• Bursten 1. 5. 8. 13. 17
• Chin-cough 11
• Flowres to stop 20
• Fluxes 12
• Fundament griefes 4
• Hoarsenesse 9
• Inflammations 4
• Lungs griefes 3
• Matrix griefes 15
  • rent 14
• Spitting blood 1. 21. 22. 23.
• Swellings 4
• Teethach 18
• Thirst 7
• Veine broken 22. 23
• Wounds inward 1
  • outward 2. 22