ki CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
ointment, or inwardly in an electuary or fyrup, or concreted juice; for which fee . 
the latter end of the béok *, 3 i 
It is of a cleanfing and cutting faculty, without any manifeft heat, moderately E 
drying and binding. It openeth and cleanfeth the liver, helpeth the jaundice, and 
is very beneficial to the bowels, healing all inward wounds, bruifes, hurts, and 
other diftempers, The decoétion of the herb made with wine, and drank, is good 
againft the biting and flinging of ferpents, and helps them that have foul, troubled, 
or bloody waters, and caufes them to make water clear and fpeedily. It alfo helpeth: 
the cholic, cleanfeth the breaft, and rids away the cough. A draught of the de- 
coction taken warm before the fit, firft removes, and in time rids away the tertian or 
guartan agues. The leaves and feed taken in wine, ftays the bloody-flux; out- 
wardly applied, being ftamped with old fwine’s greafe, it lelpeth old fores, cancers, 
and inveterate ulcers; and draweth forth thorns, fplinters of wood, nails, or any” 
other fuch thing gotten into the flefh. It helpeth to ftrengthen the members that 
be out of joint, and being bruifed and applied, or the juice dropped in, it helpeth - 
“foul and impofthumed ears. E ee 
= The diftilled water of the herb is good to all the faid purpofes, either inward or 
Outward, but a great deal weaker. Py. 
I cannot ftand to give you a reafon in every herb why it cureth fuch difeafes, but 
if you pleafe to perufe my judgment in the herb wormwood, you fhall find it theres 
and it will be well worth your while to confider it in every herb; you fhallfind 
them true throughout the book. rae 
ae a ee R AGRIMONY. 
_TT is called in fome countries, water hemp, baftard hemp, 
eupatorium, and hepatorium, becaufe it ftrengthens the liver. i, 
_Descrirts on. The root continues a long time, having many long flender ftrings, 
‘Halks grow up about two foot high, fometimes higher ; they are of a dark pur- 
s the branches are many, growing at diftances the one from the other, the 
3 de of the ftalk, the other from the oppofite point; the leaves are 
- indented at the edges; the flowers grow at the tops of the — 
me midit of them like that of a daify ; if you rub them between your fingers, 
and baftard agrimony, 
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