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.

Indian hop-like purger. Carlo sancto.*

• P. It groweth in Mexico.
• T. The time is not observed.
• N. It hath not any Synonymous names.

Indian purger. Park: T. is hot and dry ini∣tio 2di. V. The barke of the root being a little chewed, is an apophlegmatisme, by which ca∣tarrhes and distillations are voided, and paines of the head much eased, in some also it c. vo∣mit, and bringeth out choller and flegme, a purgation being first taken. The barke being chewed h. loose gummes, putrid teeth, and maketh the breath sweet. The powder taken in white wine, or the decoction with maiden haire and a little cinamon, h. the obstruction of the mother, and consumeth winde with ung. dialth: ap. also it h. the passion of the heart, the French disease, epilepsie, and ruptures, & h. digestion: pomecitron barke being added to the decoction.