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 ...

Rough bind-weed.

Names.] IT is also called prickly Bind-weed, and commonly known in shops by the name of Sarsa-parilla;

Descript.] Rough or prickly Bind-weed groweth with tender stalks, and branches, garnished or set round about, with many sharp prickles or thorns, winding it self about trees, hedges and bushes, like our English Bind-weed; taking hold with its clasping branches upon every thing stands near it; the leaves be something like those of our Ivy but longer, and sharper at the point, the flowers are white; and the fruit are red berries, when they be ripe clu∣stering like Grapes, the root is of a thick hard substance.

Place.] It groweth in the West-Indies, as in Peru and Virginia, de∣lighting in places that incline to moisture, and in low and shadowy Valleys, and is sometimes found in the Gardens of curious herba∣rists.

Time.] In its natural Country, it flowers in Spring and Autumn.

Government and Virtues.] It is hot and dry of temperature but of subtile and thin parts; under the influence of Mars; to which plant he flies for cure; after he hath been too much inflamed in his fiery assaults with Venus, the decoction of this plant is excellent for the French-pox; and is good in Rhumes, Gouts, and cold diseases of the head, and stomach, and expelleth Wind, from the Stomach and Mother: it helpeth also Catharrs, and salt distillations from the Head, it is good in Tumors and the Kings-Evill. A dram of the powder, with the like quantity of Tamarisk, being ta∣ken in Ale, or Wine, mollifies Tumors, and hardness of the Spleen.

It is so great an Antidote against Poyson, that it doth not serve on∣ly for Venome, received before hand, but also against all poyson, after that one hath taken hereof; so that whosoever taketh thereof daily, no Venome can hurt him; it is also reported of this plant, that if the juice thereof be given to a child newly born, no Poyson shall ever after hurt him.

Notes

• Pox, Rhumes, Gouts, Stomach Catharrs Kings-Evill Spleen.