Blagrave's supplement or enlargement to Mr. Nich. Culpeppers English physitian containing a description of the form, names, place, time, coelestial government, and virtues, all such medicinal plants as grow in England, and are omitted in his book, called, The English-physitian, and supplying the additional virtues of such plants wherein he is defective : also the description, kinds, names, place, time, nature, planetary regiment, temperature, and physical virtues of all such trees, herbs, roots, flowers, fruits, excrescencies of plants, gums, ceres, and condensate juices, as are found in any part of the world, and brought to be sold in our druggist and apothecaries shops, with their dangers and corrections / by Joseph Blagrave ... ; to which is annexed, a new tract for the cure of wounds made by gun-shot or otherways, and remedies for the help of seamen troubled with the scurvy and other distempers ...

Sumach.

Descript. Names.] Sumach groweth like a bushy shrub, about the height of a man, bringing forth divers bran∣ches, upon which grow long soft hairy or velvet leaves, with a red stem or sinew in the middle; the which upon every side hath six or seven little leaves standing one against another, nipt about the edges like the leavs of Egrimony, the flowers grow among the leaves, upon long stems or footstalks, clustring together like the Cats-tails; or blowings of the Nut-tree, of a white green colour; the seed is flat and red, growing in round berries clustring together like grapes. This Plant is called in Latine Rhus, and in English Sumach, and Coriers Sumach; The seed is called in Latine Rhus obsoniorum, and in English Meat-Sumach, and Sauce Sumach.

Place and Time.] It groweth in Spain and other hot Countreys; It is seldome found in this countrey, but in the gardens of diligent Her∣barists, where it flowers in July.

Government and Vertues.] This is a Saturnine Plant, of temperature cold in the second degree and dry in the third; of a strong binding faculty, the leavs have the same power that Acacia hath, they stop the Lask and womens flowers, with all other issues of blood,* 1.1 to be first boyled in water and wine and drun∣ken; the same decoction stoppeth the Lask and bloo∣dy flux, to be used as a Glyster, or to bathe in the decoction. It also dryeth up the running water and filth of the ears, when it is dropped into the same; and maketh the hair black being washed therein.

The seed of Sumach being eaten in sawces with meat, doth stop all Fluxes of the belly, with the bloody-flux, and the whites.* 1.2 The same layd upon new bruises and green wounds, defendeth them from hurts, inflamations, Swellings and Exulcerations; the same pounded with Oaken-coals, and layd to the hemerrhoids, healeth and dryeth up the same; The decoction of the leaves worketh the same effect.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Lask-flowers, Bloody Issues, Bloody-Flux, Watry Ears.
• * 1.2

  Bloody-Flux, Whites.