92 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Vos ie ee URSINE. 
BESIDES the common name brank urfine, it is alfo called bear’s breech, and 
acanthus, though I think our Englifh names more proper, for the Greek word 
acanthos fignifies any thiftle whatfoever. 
Descriwtion. This thiftle thoots forth very many large, -thick, fad green, {mooth 
leaves upon the ground, with a very thick and juicy. middle rib; the leaves are 
parted with fundry deep gathes on the edge; the leaves remain a long time before 
any ftalk appears, afterwards rifeth up a reafonable big ftalk three or four feet high, 
and bravely decked with flowers from the mididle of ‘the ftalk upwards, for on the 
lower part of the ftalk there is neither branch nor leaf; the flowers are hooded and 
gaping, being white in colour, and ftanding in brawnilh hufks with a {mall, long, 
undivided leaf under each leaf ; they feldom feed in our country ; its roots are many,’ 
great, and thick, blackifh without and whitith within, full of a clammy fap; if 
you fet a piece of them in a garden, defending it from the firft winter’s cold, it will 
grow and flourifh. 3 
3 PLace. 
very well. | 
Tames Te flowereth in June and July. 
: -) Government AND Virtues. It is an excellent plant under the dominion of the 
Moon I could wifh fuch as are ftudious would labour to keep it in their gardens. 
“Tes tea " ing ‘boiled and ufed in clyfters, are exceeding good to mollify the belly, 
and make the paflages flippery; the decoétion drank, is excellent good for the 
bloody flux’; the leaves being bruifed and rather boiled, and applied like a poultice, 
ee ‘are exceeding good to unite broken bones, and ftrengthen joints that have been put 
Out; the decoction of either the leaves or rots being drank, and the decoéted leaves 
: to the place, is excellent good for the king’s evil that is broken and runneth, 
influence of the Moon it reviveth the ends of the veins which are relaxed; 
a better remedy to be applied to fuch Places as are burnt with fire © 
*heth out the fire, and heals it without a {ear s it is alfo an ex- 
a8 are buriten, being either taken inwardly or applied to the 
a helps the cramp and the gout; it is excellent good in 
radical moifture to fach as are in conf 
They are only nurfed up in gardens in England, where they will grow 
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umptions, 
a and our lady’s feal; the white is 
Descrip- 
