6 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
- GoveERNMENT AND Virtues. The cabbages or coleworts boiled gently in broth, 
and eaten, do open the body, but the fecohd decoction doth bind the body: the 
juice thereof drank in wine, helpeth thofe that are bitten by an adder, and the de. 
cottion of the flowers bringeth down womens’ courfes. Being taken with honey, it 
recovereth hoarfenefs or lofs of voice ; the often eating of them well boiled, helpeth — 
thofe that are entering into a confumption : .the pulp of the middle ribs of colewort 
boiled in almond milk, and made up into an electuary with honey, being taken 
often, is very profitable for thofe that are purfy or fhort winded ; peing boiled twice, | 
and an old cock boiled in the broth, and drank, helpeth the pains and obftruttions 
_ . of the liver and fpleen, and the ftone in the kidnies ; the juice boiled with honey, 
and dropped into the corner of the eyes, cleareth the fight by confuming any film or 
cloud beginning to dim it; it alfo confumeth the canker growing therein, They 
are much commended being eaten before meat to keep one from furfeiting, as alfo : 
from being drunk with too much wine, or quickly make a drunken man fober; for, 
as they fay, there is fuch an antipathy or enmity between the vine and the colewort, 
that the one will die where the other groweth. The decoction of coleworts taketh : 
away the pain and achs, and allayeth the fwellings of fwoln and gouty legsand 
Knees, wherein many grofs and watery humours are fallen, the place-being bathed 
therewith warm ; it helpeth alfo old and filthy fores, being bathed therewith, and 
healeth all fmall feabs, pufhes, and wheals that break out in the fkin; the athes of 
colewort ftalks mixed with old hog’s greafe, are very effectual to anoint the fide ot ; 
_ thofe that have had long pains therein, or any other place pained with melancholy ih 
and windy humours. Cabbages are extreme windy, whether you take them as met 
or as medicine, but colewort flowers are fomething more tolerable, and the whol 
fomer food of the two. The Moon challengeth the dominion of the herb. goes 
bL SEA COLEWORT. "eg 
Description. THIS hath divers fomewhat long, broad, large, thick, wrinkled 
| crumpled upon the edges, growing each upon a feveral thick fooctally 
a greyifh green colour 5 from among which rifeth up a ftrong thick 
Or more, with fome leaves thereon to the top, where it. 
onevery branch ftandeth a large buth of pale whitifh flowers, CO 
“Seach: the root is fomewhat great, and fhooteth forth mail 
= x ceping the green leaves all the winter. y e 
in many places upon the fea coafts, as well on the Kentills 
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“1° in Kent, Colchefter in Effex, and divers others pla 
