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 Opopanax. Chap. cxi.

OPopanax is the gumme or sappe of the first kinde of Panaces, called Heracleoticum, as Dioscorides writeth, & it floweth out of the roote and stalke of Panaces, as they shalbe hurt or cut, and the sappe when it is yet fresh, and first flowen out, is white, and when it is drie, it is altogyther yellowe lyke that which is coloured with Saffron. And the best of this sappe or gumme is that same whiche on the outsyde is yelowe and within whitish, for that is yet fresh.

❀ The Names.

The gumme is called in Greeke 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: in Latine Opopanax: and of the Apothecaries Opopanacum: in Englishe Opopanax.

❀ The Nature.

Opopanax is hoate and drie in the thirde degree.

❀ The Vertues.

[ A] Opopanax is very good against the colde shiuerings, and brusing of Agues, the payne and griefe of the syde, the gnawing & griping payne of the bowelles or guttes, the Strangurie, and for them that are squatte or bruysed within, by occasion of falling, if it be dronken with Meade or Honied water. And to be taken in the same manner or with wine, it cureth the inwarde scuruinesse or hurt of the bladder.

[ B] Opopanax as Mesue writeth, taken the waight of two drammes or lesse, pourgeth by siege, the flegme and colde, tough, clammie, and slymie humours, drawing the same from partes farre of, as frō the head, the sinewes & ioyntes. Moreouer it is very good against al colde diseases, of the brayne and sinewes, as the Crampe and Paulsie, &c.

[ C] The same taken in the like manner and quantitie, doth mundifie and scoure the breast, and is good for Asthmatique people, and for them that are troubled with the shortnesse of winde or breath, and with an olde dangerous cough.

[ D] It cureth also the hardnesse, and other mishappes of the melt or splene, and Dropsie, if it be tempered or fliped in muste, and dronken.

[ E] Opopanax doth scatter, soften, & resolue, al hard, cold, swelling, or tumours, being stieped in vineger, and applyed or layde therto.

[ F] It is good to be layde to the Sciatica (whiche is the gowt in the hippe or huckle bone) and it easeth the payne of the gowt of the legges and feete, beyng layde therevpon with the substance or pulpe of dried Raysons.

[ G] The same mingled with Hony, and put in vnder in manner of a Pessarie or mother suppositorie, prouoketh the flowres, driueth foorth the Secondine, and dead fruite, dispatcheth the ventositie of the Matrix or mother, and cureth all hardnesse of the same.

[ H] Opopanax being layde vpon Carbuncles, and Pestilentiall botches, and tu∣mors, breaketh the same, especially after that it hath ben soked in vineger, and mingled with leccayne.

[ I] It swageth tooth ache, being put into the hollownesse of perished teeth: or rather as Mesue sayth, to be boyled in vineger, and holdē or kept in the mouth.

[ K] Being layd to the eyes alone, or mingled with Collyries made for the pur∣pose, it cleareth the sight.

[ L] With this gumme and Pitche they make a playster, the whiche is very sin∣guler agaynst the bytinges of al wilde and mad beastes, being layd therevnto.