104 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
GoveRNMENT AND Virtues. Bind-weed is a plant of Mercury, of a hot na- 
ture, and of fubtil parts, having power to diffolve; the juice of the leaves being 
dnuik. do loofen and open the belly ; and being pounded, and laid to the grieved 
place, diffolveth, wafteth, and confumeth hard f{wellings, 
Gb: BALSAM TREE, 
THE Arabians call it Zale ofan, the Greeks Barca, and the Latins balfamum ; the — 
liquor they call epobalfamum, tne. berries or fruit of the tree carpobalfamum, and the 
dprigs or young branches thereof xglab aljamuns. , 
Duscriprion. The balfam or balm tree, in the moft natural places where it 
Sroweth, is never very great, feldom more than eight or nine feet high, and in fome 
“places much lower, with divers {mall and ftr aight flender branches iffuing from 
them, of a brownifh red colour, efpecially the younger twigs, covered with a dou- 
‘ble bark, the red firtt and a green one under i it, which are of a very fragrant {mell, 
and of an. aromatical quick tafte, fomewhat aftringent and gummy, cleaying to the 
fingers ; the wood under the bark is white, and as infipid as any other wood, on : 
thefe branches come forth fparfedly ‘and without order, many ftalks of winged. leaves, 
fomewhat like unto thofe of the mattic tree, the loweft and thofe that firft come forth 
-Confifting but of three leaves, others. of - five or feven leaves, but feldom more; 
[Which are fet u couples, ae lowelt fmallett, and the next bigger, and the uppermoft 
fmelling | and tafting fomewhat like the bark 
Ee St fo, ‘and abide < on the bufhes all the year, the % 
“pore are maily and fmall, ‘fland | by three together on {mall ftalks at the ends of 
the branches, made of fix {mall whi 
ith, hard berries, little bigger than j 
the fides, and very like unto the be 
Q having a yellow honey-like fubita 
juniper berries, {mall at both ends, creftedon 
rries of the turpentine tree, of a very fharp fcent, as 
nee in them, fomewhat bitter, but aromatical i ne 
“ “and biting on the tongue lik the opebalfamum 5 from the. body hereof being 
re ifueth forth a liquor (which fometimes floweth without fcarifying) of@ 
tith safe at the firft, but afterwards groweth | oily, and is fomewhat 
and of fo fharp a fcent that i it will pierce'the noftrils of 2 
3 itis almoft: — unto oil 0 
“Hike honey 0 or brown ck 
 Prace ano Time, 7 = 
~ known to: grow, ae : 
te leaves apiece, after which follow {mall brown- 
