The inward use.
They are Cephalicall, Hepaticall, and Cardiacall, that is good for the Head, Liver and Heart, to open the obstructions of the Liver, and to coole the heat thereof, and to ease the paine of the head, e∣specially the white and the yellovv. They are good for faintings of the heart and pa••pitation o beating thereof, also for weak and faint stomackes which comes through heat; good against melancholy, and procureth mirth and alacrity. They are used to stay and binde the spermaticall flux in men and women, for which purpose either the powder taken in a reare Egge, or mixed with other things for the purpose, or steeped in red Wine, and kept in a hot Balneo, or in hot Embers close stopped all night, and strained forth and drunk in the morning and evening, both stay the Gonorrhea, or running of the Reines in men, and the whites in women. They are good in hot diseases, as in burning Fevers, inflammations of the Liver, and such like. The Indians (saith Gerarde) do use the decoction made in water against hot burning Agues, and the overflowing of the courses, Erisipelas, the Gowt, and all inflammations, especially if it be mixed with the juice of Night-shade, House-leek, or Purslane. They are put in Collises and Jellies, and all delicate meats, which are good to strengthen and revive the spirits.
The red Sanders have an astrictive and strengthning faculty, but are not cordiall as the other two: they are used in divers Me∣dicines and meats both for their faculty and pleasing red colour, which they give to them, as in savvces, Pies, &c. The red is often used to stay defluxions of thin rheume from the head, and to coole hot inflammations, hot Gowts, and to temper the heat of hot Agues.