Pambotanologia. Sive Enchiridion botanicum. Or A compleat herball: containing the summe of what hath hitherto been published either by ancient or moderne authors both Galenicall and chymicall, touching trees, shrubs, plants, fruits, flowers, &c. In an alphabeticall order: wherein all that are not in the physick garden in Oxford are noted with asterisks. Shewing their place, time, names, kindes, temperature, vertues, use, dose, danger and antidotes. Together with an [brace] introduction to herbarisme, &c. appendix of exoticks. Universall index of plants: shewing what grow wild in England. / By Robert Lovell St. C.C. Ox.

Bryony. Bryonia.

• P. Almost every where: on banks, and under hedges.
• T. Fl: in May, June, July, and August.
• N. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Vitis alba, & Vitalba. Viticella. The black, Sigillum Maria.

Bryony Ger: K. as the white. T. is in all

parts hot and drie 3°, much clensing, purging choler, flegme, and water. V. the first springs boyled and eaten, purge by siege and urine. the root d. in meade in the spring, or decoct and d. purgeth as before, and troubleth the stomack, h. dropsies, falling-sickness, & vertigo. The root as a pessarie extracts the dead child, so as a bath boiled and ap: it taketh away wrinkles and freckles, sunburnings, spots, and scarres, with meale of vetches, or boiled in oile, it h. whitlowes: stamped with wine and ap: it breaketh biles, and draweth out bones. The fruit ap: h. scabbs and lepry. An electua∣ry of the roots with hony or sugar h. short windes, old coughs, pains in the sides, bur∣stings, and dissolveth clotted bloud. The root stamped with salt and ap: h. filthy ulcers, and scabbed leggs: so the fruit. It's root, and that of wake-Robin stamped with brimstone ap. h. the morphew and freckles made in a nodulus ap: with vineger. Black bryonie T. the root is hot and drie 3°, the fruit is weaker: both scoure and waste. V. the roots d. purge water, and d. in wine h: the dropsie. The fruit h. sun-burning ap: and spots of bruises: so the root ap: as a plaister it h. deformities of the skin, breaks impostumes, draweth out splinters, and easeth ache ap: and dissolveth clotted bloud. Bryony of Mexico and Peru, mechoacan. T. the root is of a mean, between hot and cold, yet dry. V. it purgeth flegme and water, drach: 1 or 2. d. with an appropriate water, h. all diseases of flegme and cold hu∣mors, old head-aches, coughs, the dyspnoea, collick, paine of the kidnies and joynts, reins, and belly. Park: the faecula of bryonie taken

to the q. of 2 or 3 graines in wine or broth, purgeth flegme out of the chest. Mechoacan h. the dropsie and jaundise, expelleth winde, and h. old agues. The jalap is more strong. Col: the wa••••r drawn out of the root of bryo∣ny d. h. the fits of the mother, clenseth the wombe, and h. the courses.