CHAP. 84. De Calamo Aromatico, of Aromaticall reed.
The Names.
IT is called in Latine, Calamus Aromaticus, and Acorus: in English, Aromaticall reed and the sweet smelling flagge.
The Temperament.
It is hot and dry in the second degree, and of thin parts.
The Duration.
Is will keep good two or three yeares.
The inward use.
A decoction of this root availes to provoke urine, to ease the Page [unnumbered] paine of the side, to bring downe womens courses, to open the stop∣pings of the Liver, and Spleen, and Breast; and helpeth Convulsions, gripings, burstings, bruises, and such as pisse by drops: It prevailes in the Dropsie and against Poison, and is put into Electuaries for such as have raw, and cold humours in their Lungs or chest. Halfe a sc•uple thereof in powder, taken in a little beer, doth help the Col∣lick and expell winde. It helpeth the Palsie and swimming of the head.
The manner of Administring it.
It is given in Decoction, Electuary, and in powder.
The outward use.
The juice mixed with a little Hony and used, helpeth drynesse. The root boyled in wine stamped and applyed into the Cods, abates the swelling thereof, and helpeth all hardnesse and collections of hu∣mours in any place. The fume thereof used provokes the courses. The fume th•reof also taken by the mouth in a pipe, alone or with dryed Turpentine, helpeth Coughs. It maketh a sweet breath being chewed in the Mouth, and is used in perfumes.
The Dose.
The Dose in powder is halfe a dram to a dram, in decoction, from a dram to three drams.
Of such Medicines as are made thereof.
The distelled water of the root steeped fi st in wine. The root pre∣served. The Extract. [A scruple of which being taken helpeth the Collick] El. Diacorum O• e.
