AND COMPLETE HERBAL, | oD 
Sintment, it helpeth the dry fcab, and the itch in children : and the herb with the 
¢white flower is alfo very good for the finews, arteries, and joints, to comfort and 
ftrengthen them after travel, cold, and pains. 
B.E & -:..S*. 
Description. OF beets there are two forts, which are beft known generally, and 
whereof I fhall principally treat at this time, viz. the white and red beets; and 
their virtues. | 
The common white beet hath many great leaves next the ground, fomewhat large, 
and of a whitifh green colour ; the ftalk is great, ftrong, and ribbed, bearing great 
ftore of leaves almoft to the very top of it: the flowers grow in very long tufts, 
{mall at the ends, and turning down their heads, which are {mall, pale, greenith, 
yellow burs, giving cornered prickly feed. The root is great, long, and hard, and 
when it hath given feed, is of no ufe at all. : 
The common red beet differeth not from the white, but only it is lefler, and the 
leaves and the roots are fomewhat red: the leaves are differently red, in fome only 
with red ftrakes or veins, fome of a freth red, and others of a dark red. - The root 
hereof is red, fpungy, and not ufed to be eaten. wis / : , 
GoveRNMENT AND Virtues. The government of thefe two forts of beets are 
far different; the red beet being under Saturn, and the white under Jupiter ; there- 
fore take the virtues of them apart, each by himfelf. The white beet doth much 
loofen the belly, and is of a cleanfing, digefting quality, and provoketh urine: 
the juice of it openeth obftructions both of the liver and fpleen, and is good tor the 
head ach, and fwimmings therein, and turnings of the brain; and is effe@ual alfa 
again{t all venomous creatures ; and applied to the temples, ftayeth inflammations in 
the eyes ; it helpeth burnings being ufed without oil, and with a little allum put to 
it, is good for St. Anthony’s fire. It is alfo good for all wheals, puthes, blifters, 
