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.

The Roots of Pellitory of Spain, being very rare in England, the Roots of Ma∣sterwort are the best substitute, and are commonly sold in Shops under that Noti∣on. The dryed Root being chewed in the mouth, draweth down from the head much flegme▪ and is thereby available to ease the pains in the Head and Teeth, and to draw forth cold Rheum, Catarrhes, and Defluxions upon the Lungs, or Distillations into the Eys. It is available in all cold Diseases and Griefs, both of the Stomack and Body, dissolving wind very powerfully, both upward and down∣ward. The same also provoketh Urine, and helpeth to break the Stone, and expel Gravel from the Kidneys; it procureth Womens Courses, and expelleth the dead Birth, and is singular good for the strangling of the Mother, and other the like Womens Diseases: it is effectuall also against the Dropsie, Cramp, and Fall∣ing

Sicknesse. It is of a rare quality against all sorts of cold poysons, to be taken as there is cause, either more or lesse, and provoketh sweat. The juyce hereof dropped, or Tents dipped therein, and applyed either to the green wounds, or rot∣ten Ulcers; yea, although they fret and creep, and be almost gangrenated; and those also that come by envenomed Weapons, doth soon cleanse and heal them; or if they be bathed with the distilled water: the same also is good to help the Gout, comming of cold cause. Tragus saith, that the Decoction of the Root in Wine, being drunk, doth revive the ability of generation; but surely he had not observed Galens Rule, who saith, that those things that are so hot to expell wind, do not help, but hinder nature. The other sort is more effectual, and especially for Quartane Agues, to expel the dead Child, to purge the brain, and to expell wind, and help the Cholick,