Adam in Eden, or, Natures paradise the history of plants, fruits, herbs and flowers with their several names ... the places where they grow, their descriptions and kinds, their times of flourishing and decreasing as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations and particular physical vertues together with necessary observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English simples with directions how to preserve them in their compositions or otherwise : ... there is annexed a Latin and English table of the several names of simples, with another more particular table of the diseases and their cures ... / by William Coles ...

The Vertues and Signature.

To drink the juice or the distilled Water of Kidney-wort in a small quantity of White Wine, is of very great operation to heale sore Kidneys, torne or fretted by the Stone, or exulcerated within, with a deale of ease; and so it provoketh Urine, and is available for the Drop••y, helpeth to break the stone as also to coole those parts that are inflamed by the paines thereof, and to ease the wring∣ing paines of the Bowells, and the bloody-Flux. Some say that Rootes and Leaves eaten, in substance worketh the effects aforesaid; and if I should say they do it by Signature, I think it would be no false doctrine, for the Root hath the figure of the stone, if you observe it. The said juice or distilled Water being drunk is very effectuall for all inflammations and unnaturall heats, to coole a faint∣ing hot Stomack or a hot Liver, or the Bowells, as also for Pimples, Rednesse, St. Anthonies fire, and other outward inflammations, if the bruised Herb be applyed outwardly, or the place bathed with the juice, or the distilled Water thereof. It is also singular good to coole the painfullnesse of the Piles or Hemorrhoidall Veines, the juice being used as a Bath unto them or made into an Oyntment; It is no lesse effectuall to ease the paines of the hot Gout and Sciatica, which is a paine in the Hips, and for this reason it is called Herba Coxendicum or Hip-wort; and it is also available for the inflammations and Swellings of the Cods. It helpeth the Kernells or Knots in the Neck or Throat, called the Kings-Evill; healeth Kibes and Chilblaines, if they be bathed with the juice or anointed with an Oyntment made thereof, and some of the Skin of the Leafe laid upon them; It is also used in greene Wounds to stay the blood, and to heale them quickly. Those that have consecrated the Fore-head to modesty, the Eare to Memory, the Knee to mercy, have assigned the Navel to be the Seat of Luxury or Love; and there∣fore the Leafe hereof, having the Signature of the Navel, is very prevalent in things belonging to Love. I need say no more of the other sorts, than what is expressed in the Temperature.