AND COMPLETE HERBAL. un 
Pract. It groweth plentifully in gardens. 
Time. They flower in Auguft, and feed foon after. 
GovERNMENT AND Virtues. It is an herb.of Mars, and under the ‘fign Aries, 
Now in treating on this herb, I fhall give you-a rational conception of all the 
reft, and if you pleafe to view them throughout the book, you thall to your content 
find themtrue. It helps fwimmings and giddinefs of the head, or the difeafe calied 
vertigo, becaufe Aries is in the houfe of Mars. It is an excellent remedy againit 
the yellow jaundice, and other infirmities of the gall, becauie Mars governs choler.. 
It ftrengthens the attractive faculty in man, and clarifies the blocd, becaufe it is 
ruled by Mars. ‘The continual drinking the decoétion of i it, helps red faces, tet- 
ters, and ringworms, becaufe Mars caufeth them. It helps plague-fores, boils, the 
itch, and bitings of mad. dogs and venomous beatts, all which infirmities are under 
Mars. Thus you fee what it doth by fympathy. 
By antipathy to other planets, it cures the venereal difeafe, this by antipathy to Ve. 
nus, who governs.it. It ftrengthens the memory, and cures deafnefs by antipathy to 
Saturn, who hath his fall in Aries, which rules the head. It cures quartan agues, 
and other difeafes of melancholy and aduft.choler, by fympathy to Saturn, Mars be 
ing exalted in Capricorn : alfo it provokes urine, the ftopping of which ‘is ecutede 
caufed by Mars, or the Moon *. 
CARROTS. 
i fe 16 €kcéllent for the head, and the parts’ thereof ; this herb wibetl eat, or the powder or juice 
drank, keepeth a perfon from the head ach and megrum, and alfo driveth it away. Being taken 
in meat or drink, it is good againit dizzinefs and {wimming giddinefs of the head. itcémforteth 
the brain, fharpencth the wit, and ftrengtheneth the memory ; it is a fingular remedy againft 
deafnels, for it amendeth the thicknefs of the hearing, and provokes fleep. The juice of it laid 
to the ayes, quickeneth the fight, alfo the water in the which the powder, or herb dried, is 
fteeped, hath the fare effect if the eyes be wafhed therewith ; the herb eaten, is good-for the 
fame purpofe. The water or juice dropped into the eyes, cureth the rednefs, bloodfhotten, and 
‘itching of them. Some write that it ftrengthens the teeth, they being wafhed and rubbed with 
a cloth dipped i in the water or juice thereof, The powder ftauncheth | the: blood that floweth out 
‘of the nofe, being Gosied to the place. ‘It comforteth the ftomach ; the broth of the herb, other. 
wife called the decoétion drank in wine, is good for an evil ftomach ; it helpeth a weak fto- 
mach, and caufeth appetite to meat ; alfo the ‘wine wherein it hath been boiled, doth cleanfe and ~ 
mundify the infeéted ftomach. The powder thereof eaten with honey, or drank in wine, doth 
ripen and digeft cold phlegm, purgeth and bringeth up that which is in the breaft, fcouring the 
fame of grofs humours, and caufeth to breathé more eafily. The herb chewed in the mouth, Nehe 8, 
eth the ftench of the breath. _ Tehielpeth the heart; the powder being taken before a man is in- 
‘feéted, preferveth him from ‘the pet ilence ; and-a dram of it, or-a ica 2 cer 
| Gately. 
