92 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
_ and blains in the fkin ; the herb boiled, and laid upon chilblains or kibes, helpetty ye : 
them : the decoction thereof in water and fome vinegar, healeth the itch, if bathed 
therewith, and cleanfeth the head of dandriff, feurf, and dry fcabs, and doth much 
good for fretting and running fores, ulcers, and cankers in the head, legs, or other 
parts, and is much commended againft baldnefs and fhedding of hair. 
The red beet is good to ftay the bloody flux, women’s courfes, and the whites,. 
and to help the yellow jaundice. The juice of the root put into the noftrils, purgeth: 
the head, helpeth the noife in the ears, and the tooth ach; the juice fnuffed up the 
nofe, helps a ftinking breath, if the caufe lies in the nofe, as many times it doth, if 
any bruife have been there, as alfo want of fmell coming that way. 
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CALLED alfo broomwort, and in Yorkfhire, bifhop’s leaves. ~ a 
Description. Firft, of the water betony, which rifeth up with Grae: hard, a 
greenith ftalks, fometimes brown, fet with broad, dark green leaves, dented about 
the edges with notches, fomewhat refembling the leaves of the wood betony, but 
muca larger, two for the moft part fet at a joint ; the flowers are many, fet at the tops — 
Of the ftalks and branches, being round bellied, and open at the brims, and divided 
“Into wo parts, the uppermoft being like a hood, and the lowett like a lip hanging we 
: of a dark red. colour, which preffing away, there comes in their places {mall 
ree heads with fmall points i in the ends, wherein Jie {mall and brownifh feeds: — 
Fad root isa thick buth of ftrings and threads growing from the head, 4 
Peace. Te groweth by ditch-fides, brooks, and other water-courfes, generally 
through this Jand, and is feldom found far from the water-fides. 
Ping. Tt flowereth about July, and the feed is ripe in Auguft. a 
“ol Aw Virtues. Water betony isan herb of Jupiter in Cancer, and 
ted more to wounds and hurts in the breaft than wood betony, which 
2 excellent remedy for fick hogs. Itis of a cleanfing quality ; the 
it ed, are effedtual for ait cold sgh aan and ay 
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