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very good to help digeftion, and open obftructions of the brain: ; and hath fuch a 
purging quality, faith Avicen, as toexpel thofe melancholy vapours from the {pirits 
and blood which are in the heart and arteries, although it cannot do fo in. other, / 
parts of the body. ] Dioicorides faith, that the leaves fteeped in wine, and the wine 
drank, and the leaves externally applied, is a remedy againft the fting of {corpions, 
and the bitings of mad dogs ; and commendeth the decoétion thereof for women to 
bathe or fit in, to procure their courfes; it is good to wafh aching teeth therewith, | 
and profitable for thofe that have the bloody flux. The leaves alfo with a little 
nitre taken in drink, are good againft a furfeit of mufhrooms, helps the griping 
pains of the belly, and being made into an electuary,. it is good for them that can- 
not fetch their breath with eafe : ufed with falt, it takes away wens, kernels, or hard 
{fwellings in the flefh or throat: it cleanfeth foul fores, and eafeth pains of the gout. 
It is alfo good for the liver and {pleen. A tanfy or caudle made with eggs, and the 
Juice thereof while it is young, putting to it fome fugar and rofe water, is good for 
women in child-bed, when the afterbirth is not thoroughly voided, and for their 
faintings upon, or after their fore travel./ The herb bruifed and boiled in a litley 
wine and oil, and laid warm ona boil, will ripen and break i ie 
7 af BARBERRY. < 
coe fhrub is fo well known to every boy and girl that hath See attained to the 
age of feven years, that it needs no defcription. 
_ Government anp Virtues. Mars owns the fhrub, and prefents it to the ufe of 
my countrymen, to purge their bodies of choler. The inner rind of the barberry 
tree boiled in white wine, and a quarter of a pint drank each morning, is an excel- 
Jent remedy to cleanfe the body of choleric humours, and free it from fuch difeafes 
as choler caufeth, fuch as fcabs, itch, tetters, ringworms, yellow jaundice, boils, 8c. 
It is excellent for hot agues, burnings, fcaldings, heat of blood, heat of the liver, 
and bloody-flux ; the berries are as good as the bark, and more pleafing, they get 
aman a good ftomach to his victuals, by. ftrengthening the attractive faculty, 
which i is under Mars. The hair wafhed with the lye made ‘of the afhes of the tree, ~ 
and water, will make it turn yellow, viz. Mars’s own colour. The fruit and rind 
of this fhrub, the flowers of broom and of heath, or furze, cleanfes the body of ee 
ler by fympathy, as the flowers, leaves, and bark of the peach tree do Oy intipathy ; 
bene ae are unde — hay, gery Venus. 
: being yeatly fown i in i this fad — cia whereof take as followeth, 
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