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.

Of Scordium / or water Germander. Chap. lxxv.

❀ The Description.

THis herbe hath square hearie or cottony stalkes, creeping by the ground, and set vpon euery side with softe, crimpled, and round, whitish leaues, nickt, & snipt roūd about the edges like a saw, betwixt which and the stalke groweth littell purple floures, like to the floures of dead Nettell, but smaller. The roote hath threedy strings creeping in the ground.

❀ The Place.

This herbe groweth in moyst me∣dowes, neare about diches, & is found in some partes of the countrey of Brabant.

❀ The Tyme.

Scordion floureth most commonly in Iune & Iuly, & thā is the best gathering of it.

❀ The Names.

This herbe is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Scordiū, & Trixago palustris, of some Mithridatium: in high Douch was∣ser Batenig, and of some Lachen Kno∣blauch: in base Almaigne Water loock: in English also Scordion, & water Ger∣mander.

❀ The Nature.

Scordion is hoate & dry in the thirde degree.

[illustration]

Scordium.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] Scordion drōken with wine, openeth the stoppings of the Liuer, the Milte, the Kidneys, the Bladder, and the Matrix: it prouoketh vrine, and is good a∣gainst the stoppings of vrine, and strangury, whan a man cannot pisse but drop after drop: it moueth and prouoketh womens floures.

[ B] The same taken in manner aforesayde, is good against the bitting of Ser∣pents, and al other venemous beasts, and for them that haue taken any poyson, and for them also whiche are bursten, or hurte inwardly.

[ C] Dry Scordion made into pouder, & taken in the quantitie of two drāmes, with honied water, cureth and stoppeth the bloudy flixe, and is good for the paynes of the stomacke.

[ D] The same made into pouder, and mengled with Hony, and eaten, clenseth the breast from all fleume, and is good against an old Cough.

[ E] Fresshe and greene Scordion pounde, and layde vppon greate greene woundes, cureth the same. The same dryed and tempered or mixte with Hony,

or made into pouder and cast into olde woundes, and corrupt, and rotten vlcers, cureth the same, and doth eate, and waste the prowde, and superfluouse flesshe.

[ F] This herbe boyled in water or Vineger, and layde vpon the payne of the ioyntes easeth the griefe, causing it the sooner to departe.