The Vertues.
The distilled water of Lavander being sunned for a time, is not onely sweet of smell, and therefore comfortable to the brain; but also is good for the Pal∣sie, and all other infirmities of the head, proceeding of cold; if the Temples, the hollowness under the ears, and the nape of the neck be washed therewith: as the Catalepsis, which is a Disease that taketh away all motion from the body, the Megrim, and the Falling-Sickness: yea, two or three spoonfuls of the water being drunk, recovereth the speech being lost, and reviveth them that are in a swoun, and so it doth, if it be but applyed to the Temples or Nostrils to be smelt unto; but it is not safe to use it, when the Body is full of humours, mix∣ed with blood, because of the hot and subtill spirits, wherewith it is possessed. A Decoction made with the Flowers of Lavender, Horehound, Fennel, and As∣paragus Roots, and a little Cinamon is very profitably used to help the Falling-Sickness, and the giddiness or turning of the brain. Wherefore not without cause; the Herb is reckoned of Schola Salerni, amongst those things that cure the Palsie:
That is to say, Sage, Castory, (that is, the stones of the Beast, called a Castor) Lavender, Primrose, Watercresse, and Tansie, cure and heal Members infected with the Palsie. So that though the Flowers be of most vertue, yet the Herb it self is good for the uses aforesaid: as also for Apoplexies, Lethargies, Cramps, Convulsions, and gripings of the body proceeding of Cold. It helpeth also the stopping of the Milt, heateth the belly, and sendeth down the Terms, and if the same be holden often in the mouth, it helpeth the Ulcers and pains of the teeth, and the same water is excellent good for blisters of the mouth, if the mouth be washed therewith. It being often smelled unto, doth comfort and clear the sight; and if a shirt be but wetted in the water, wherein Lavander hath been boyled, and after dryed, no louse will breed or abide therein, as long as it keepeth the smell. The lesser Lavander is much commended in all the Diseases of the Mother, as the strangling or suffocation, the dislocation or displacing, &c. for Women to be bathed therewith, as also to help forward their travel. The Chymical Oyl drawn from Lavander, usually called Oyl of Spike, is good for the Palsie, Falling-Sickness, Gouts of the Joynts, and of the feet, both taken at mouth, and also anointed; but it must be used cautiously; some few drops, being sufficient to be given with other things, either for inward or outward griefs.