ie CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Prace. It grows plentifully by ditches and water-fides, and by the highways, 
almoft every where throughout this land. ; - 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. Venus challengeth ‘this herb for her own, and by 
its feed or leaf, you may draw the womb which way ‘you pleafe, either upward by 
applying it to the crown of the head, in cafe it falls out, or downward in fits of the 
mother, by applying it to the’foles of the feet; or if you would ftay it in its place, 
‘apply it to the navel, and that is likewife a good way to ftay the-child.in it: the bur 
leaves are cooling, moderately drying, ‘and difcuffing withal, whereby it is good for 
old ulcers and fores. A drachm of the roots taken with pine kernels, helpeth them 
that {pit foul, mattery, and bloody'phlegm; the leaves applied to the places trou- 
bled with the fhrinking of the finews ‘or arteries, give much eafe: the juice of the 
Teayes, or rather the roots themfelves given to drink with old wine, doth wonderfully — 
help the bitings of any ferpents, and the root beaten with a lictle falt, and laid on the 
place, fuddenly eafeth the pain thereof, and helpeth thofe that are bit with amad._- 
log: the juice of the leaves taken with honey, provoketh urine, and remedieth the 
‘pain of the bladder: the feed! being drank in‘wine'forty days together, doth wonder- 
‘fully help the fciatica: the leaves bruifed with the white ofan egg, and applied:to 
any place burnt with fire, taketh out the fire, gives fudden eafe, and heals it-up af- 
‘terwatds. The decoction of them fomented on any ‘fretting fore or canker, ftayeth 
the cotroding quality, which’ muft be afterwards anointed. with an ointment made of 
‘the fame liquor, ‘hog’s greafe, nitre, and vinegar boiled:together. Its roots may be 
‘preferved with fugar, and taken fafting, or at other times for-the faid. purpofes, and 
for confumptions, the ftone, and the’ lafk : the feed is much commended to break 
the ftone, and caufes it to be expelled by urine, and’ is oftenufed with other feeds, 
we chnge tp thay purpble, 3 
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- Names, IN mot counties of England this grain goeth by the general name of 
| French wheat, as in Hamphhire, Surry, Berkthire, Wiltthife, and. Buckingham- 
Abire, and ef pecia arren parts of the cou vk 
TION. Tt rifeth up with divers round hollow reddith ftalks, fee-with di- 
Thang tttfon a fal, which ig broad and round, and lie forked atthe 
bottom, fimall and poinced at the end, fomew vhat doth refemable an ivy leaf, but is 
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