A nievve herball, or historie of plantes wherin is contayned the vvhole discourse and perfect description of all sortes of herbes and plantes: their diuers [and] sundry kindes: their straunge figures, fashions, and shapes: their names, natures, operations, and vertues: and that not onely of those whiche are here growyng in this our countrie of Englande, but of all others also of forrayne realmes, commonly vsed in physicke. First set foorth in the Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Rembert Dodoens, physition to the Emperour: and nowe first translated out of French into English, by Henry Lyte Esquyer.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] The seede of Fleabane boyled in water, or stiped & dronken, purgeth downe∣wardes Aduste and Cholerique humors: by sides this it swageth payne, and slaketh the inflammation and heate of the entrayles, or bowels, and is good agaynst hoate Feuers or burning Agues, and all inwarde heates, and against great drouth, and thirst.

[ B] The same seede somewhat brused but not brokē, parched at the fire, is good against the bloudy flixe, and vehement laske, especially whan they proceede of taking strong and violent medicines.

[ C] The seede therof mengled with oyle of Roses & vineger, or water, is good to be straked or applied vnto hoate griefes of the ioynts, y^e apostems & swellings behind the eares, and other hoate swellings: also it is good against head ache.

[ D] The same layde too with vineger is good against the going out of the Na∣uell, and the bursting of yong children.

[ E] The water wherin the seede hath bene soked or stiped, is good to be layd to the burning heate called S. Antonies fire, and to all hoate swellings. It is also good to be dropped into running eares, and against the wormes in the same.

[ F] Some holde, that if this herbe whiles it is yet greene, be strowed in the house, that Fleas will not come nor ingender where as it is layed.