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se Water diftilled from the green hufks, 
76 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
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the megrim: they mightily expel wind, and provoke urine; helps the mother, — 
and kills the worm#: the leaves alfo work the like effects. A bath of the decottion 
of the leaves and berries, is fingularly good for women to fit in, that are troubled 
with the mother, or the difeafes thereof, or the ftoppings of their courfes, or for the 
difeafes of the bladder, pains in the bowels by wind and ftopping of urine. A de- 
cottion likewife of equal parts of bayberries, cummin-feed, hyfop, origanum, and — 
euphorbium, with fome honey, and the head bathed therewith, doth wonderfully 
help diftillations and rheums, and fettleth the palate of the mouth into its place, 
The oil made of the berries is very comfortable in all cold griefs of the joints, 
nerves, arteries, ftomach, belly, or womb, and helpeth palfies, convulfions, cramps, 
aches, trembling and numbnefs in every part, alfo wearinefs, and pains that come by 
fore travellings: all grief and pains likewife proceeding from wind, either in the 
head, ftomach, back, belly, or womb, by anointing the parts affected therewith; 
and pains in the ears are alfo cured by dropping in fome of the oil, or by receiving 
into the ears the warm fume of the decottion of the berries through a funnel. The 
oil takes away marks of the fkin and fleth by bruifes, falls, &c. and diffolveth the 
congealed blood in them : It helpeth alfo the itch, feabs, and wheals in the fkin, 
cctias, ESSA TS 5 A NS, 
~ 80TH the garden and field beans are fo 
_ writing any defcription of them. a 
GovERNMENT AND Virtus. They are plants of Venus : 
of the flowers of garden beans, 
: “wrinkles, and the meal or flour of them, or the fmall bean doth the fame. The 
and to provoke urine. Bean flour is 
§ Upon wounds, and the fwelling 
and tepreffeth their milk 
kernels of the ears, 
of women’s breafts caufed by the curdling of 
or have received an 
> he. fkin being 
a, Soe and fomeoil put thereto, eafeth bot 
Biss * huiks boiled in water to a a : 
well known, that it faveth me labour ot 
: and the diftilled water — 
1s good to cleanfe the face and fkin from fpots and — 
is held to be very effeGtual againft the ftont, 
ued in poultices, to aflwage inflammations — 
« The flour of beans and fenugreek mixed 
bruifes, or blue marks by blows, or theiifi- 
of ~ = them all: and with rofe leaves, frank: 
=o St egg being applied to the eyes, helpeth them that a — 
y blow upon them, if ufed with wine. 14 
| taken away, and laid on the place where 4 — 
