- CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
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GovERNMENT AND Virtues: It is an herb of Venus, and therefore cures the dif. 
eafes fhe caufes by fympathy, and thofe of Mars by antipathy. You may ufually. 
find it all the year long, except the year be extreme frofty. It is quick, fharp, and 
bjtter in tafte, and is thereby found to be hot and dry; a fingular herb for all in-> - 
ward wounds, exulcerated lungs, or other parts, either by itfelf, or boiled with other 
the like herbs; and being drank, it in a fhort time eafeth all griping pains, windy % 
_ and choleric humours in the ftomach, fpleen, or belly ; helps the yellow jaundice by a 
Hl and liver, and melancholy, by opening the, ftop-. 
venom or poifoh,*and alfo the plague; it provoketh _ 
= opening the toppings of the g al 
pings of the ‘Yfpleen, expellet é 
urine and women’ ’s courles. The decogtion of i it in wine drank for fome time toge- 
ther procureth eafé-unto them that*are troubled with the f{ciatica, or hip gout, as 
alfo the gout in the hands, knees, or feet; and if you put to the decoction fome ho- 
nEY, and a little | ur at 
ily helpeth green. wound: 
boiled with a little honey and verdigreafe, doth wonderfully cleanfe fiftulas, _ ulcers; 
— ay 9 ) Spreading or eating of cancers and ulcers; it. ely eth the itch, & 
: heals, and other breakings out in any part of the body. The juice of — 
-eelandine, field daifies, and ground ivy clarified, and a little fine fugar diffolved 
_ therein, and dropped i into the eyes, is a fovereign remedy. for all the pains, rednefs, 
and watering of them; as alfo for the pin and web, fkins and films growing over 
ging of them, and helpeth the hearing which is 
“peered. B00 ito tun awith new drink, for it will fo clarify it in a night, 
that it Be tt be drank th ‘next morning, or if any drink be thick wae 
ny other accic i" JE will do Fyre ae 
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be oe 
Mata egge oe 
call aa Seicic oon a 
>. sites it is pod 
being bruifed a and bound thereto. The juiceof it it ? 
the fight; — beatts as well as men. The juice dropped into the ears doth X 
ae swild ne Rock the black pots, 
Beles is Riese fold in the eens sigs for 
L 4 wath the fores and ulcers - jn. the privy parts of man or. woman 5) “it 
