-,  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
. Government anv Virtues, It is a notable plant of Saturn, if you view dili. — 
- gently its effets by fympathy and antipathy, you may ealily perceive a reafon of 
“them, as alfo why barley bread is fo unwholefome for melancholy people. Barley in 
all the parts and compofitions thereof, except malt, is more cooling than wheat, — 
and a little cleanfing ; and all the preparations thereof, as barley-water, and other 
things made thereof, do give great nourifhment to perfons troubled with fevers, — 
agues, and heats in-the ftomach. A poultice made of barley-meal or flour, boiled — 
in vinegar and honey, and a few dry figs put into them, diffolveth all hard inypoft. 
humes, and affwageth inflammations being thereto applied ; and being boiled with 
melilote and camomile flowers, and fome linfeed, fenugreek, and rue in powder, 
and applied warm, it eafeth pains in the fide and ftomach, and windinefs of the 
fpleen. The meal of barley and feawort boiled in water, and made into a poultice — 
with honey and oil of lillies, applied warm, cureth fwellings under the ears, throat, i. 
neck, and fuchlike ; and a plaifter made thereof with tar,wax, and oil, helpeth 
the King’s evil in the throat: boiled with fharp vinegar into a poultice, and laid on 
hot, helpeth the leprofy: being-boiled in red wine, with pomegranate rinds and 
myrtles, ftayeth the lafk or other flux of the belly: boiled with vinegar and a 
quince, it eafeth the pains of the gout. Barley flower, white falt, honey, and vine- 
gar mingled together, taketh away the itch {peedily and certainly: the water dif- 
. billed from the green barley in the end of May, is vety good for thofe that have des — : 
fluxions of humours fallen into their eyes, and eafeth the pains, being dropped into EY 
them: or white bread fteeped therein and bound on to the eyes, doth the fame. 
Apo arves, o SWEET BASIL. 
“) Deserrerio, THE greater ordinary bafilrifeth up ufually with one upright 
K, diverfly branching ay 
eee forth on all fides, with two leaves, at every joint, which 
hat broad and round, yet pointed, of a pale green colour, but frefh, 4 
the edges, and of a ftrong heady {cent ‘The flowers are fimall and 
the tops of the branches, with two fmall leaves at the joints, in 
‘others brown, after which come black feed, The root pe 
of winter, and therefore muft be new fown every year. 
- Governmen ee eae ene | og 
authors differ With refpeét to the qualities of this herb moft 
— : ides hold it not fitting to be taken inwardly, % 
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