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.

Though Mugwort be an Herbe noted amongst the Vulgar, for preventing wearinesse upon sore Travell, and for doing it away after it is contracted, yeer I finde Ladies Bedstraw, more celebrated for that purpose amongst Authors, who say that the Decoction of the Herbe and Flowers being yet warme, is of ad∣mirable use to bath the Feet of Travellers, and others who are surbated by long Jou••••eyes in hot weather, and for Laski••s and such like, whose running long cause•• ••ot onely wearinesse, but stiffenesse in the Sinewes and Joynts, to both which this herb is so friendly, that it maketh them to become as lissome, as if they had never been abroad. The Flowers and Herbe likewise made into an Oyntment or Oyl, are availeable for the same purposes, as also for burnings with Fire, or scaldings with Water; for the dry Scabbe; and the Itch in Children: The said Oynt∣ment is to be made with the Flowers and Herbe boyled in Hoggs▪ grease or Sallet Oyl, having some Bees Waxe melted therein, after it is streined; the Oyl is made likewise with the Herb in Flower, by being set in the Sun with a sufficient quantity of sallet Oyl for the space of ten or twelve dayes: Both the Oyntment and Oyle may be used, either before a journey is taken, for prevention, or after, the seet being first bathed with the decoction, and then anointed with either of them, and this is the surest way. The decoction of the Herb taken inwardly, is used by divers to help to provoke Ʋrine, and thereby to fret and break the Stone; the same also drank, helpeth to stay inward Bleedings, and also to heal inward

Wounds, by the heating and drying qualities therein: the Herbe, as well as the Flowers, being bruised and put up into the Nostrills, stayeth their bleeding, and it doth as much to Wounds, if it be applyed to them, and it draweth forth the fire out of any place that is burned, and healeth it: Dioscorides saith, that the Root is availeable to provoke bodily Lust, and some say the Flowers doe so also: The good Housewives about Namptwich in Cheshire doe make that use of it, that the Ancients did, as I said before, that is, to put it in their Runnet, esteeming more of the Cheese whereinto that is put, then that which is made without it, as a Countrey-man of theirs affirmeth: The so••ts with white flowers have been found by experience of the Ger••anes, who have been great advancers of the faculty of Simpling to be good for the Sinewes, Arteries, and Joynts to bathe them there∣with, both to take away their wearinesse and weaknesse, and to comfort and streng∣then them also, whensoever need requires.