50 CULPEPER's ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Prace, They grow commonly almoft throughout England, efpecially in meift 
and fhady places. 
Time. The leaves thoot out about the latter end of March; if the tempera- 
ture of the air be ordinary, it flowereth in July, and the feeds are ripe foon after, — Bi 
ufually in the next month. | 
GovERNMENT AND Viatues. It is under the planet Mercury, and a notable 
herb of his alfo, if ic be rightly gathered under his influence: It 1s excellent good : 
to remove witchcrafts, both in men and beatts ; ; as alfo all fudden difeafes what- 
- foever. Being tied about the neck, it is one of the moft admirable remedies for. 
the vertigo, or diflinefs in the head, and that is the reafon (as Tragus faith) the 
people in Germany commonly hang it about their cattle’s neck when they fear any 
fuch eyil‘hath betidedthem. Country people commonly ufe to take the berries of xy 
it, and having bruifed them, they apply them to felons, and thereby foon rid their 
fingers of fuch troublefome guefts. 
We have now fhéwed you the external ufe of the herb, we fhall {peak a worta or 
two of the internal, and fo conclude. Take notice, that it is a mercurial herb, 
and therefore of very fubtle parts, as indeed all mercurial plants are; therefore 
take a pound of the wood and leaves together, bruife the wood, (which you : d 
may eafily do, for it is not fo hard as oak) then put it in a pot, and put to it three ~ 4 
pints of white -wine, put onthe pot lid, and fhut ic clofe, then let it infufe het 
over a gentle fire twelve hours, then ftrain it out, fo you have a moft excellent drink 
“Po opea: ions of the liver and fpleen;‘to help difficulty of breathy bruifes, and 
falls, and congealed blood in any part of the body, to help the yellow jaundice, 
the dropfy, and black Jaundice, and to cleanfe women newly brought to bed, 5 
You may drink a quarter of a pint of the infufion every morning; it purgeth - 
the body very gently, and not —— as fome hold. And when you ane ood 
—— mber.me, ./ vee 
(ga re H CRP a 
< ‘Hercules’s alheal, and Hercules’s woundwort ; becaule it 
ales — _— virtues of eS herb from. Chyron, when 
oo = ag ie “te “ a is long, thick; Aes exceeding full of j juice, of a hot an 
— caves Saresereae and large, and winged almoft like afhtree | leaves 
hat the what hairy, each leaf confitting of five or fix. pair of fuch 
“he 
end one of the leaves slid deeper the boom han the oer oi 
