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HOLY. EARTH CHESNUTS. 4-20 
THEY are called earth nuts, earth chefnuts, ground nuts, cipper nuts, and in. 
Suffex they are called pig nuts. A defeription of them were needless, for every 
child knows them. 
GovernMeENT and Virtugs. They are fomething hot a dry i in quality, under 
the dominion of Venus, they provoke luft exceedingly, and ftir"ep\co chofe fports 
the is miftrefs of ; the feed is excellent good to provoke uririe, and=fo alfo is the 
root, but doth not perform it fo forceably as the feed. The foot being dried and 
beaten into powder, and the powder made into an electuary, i is as fingular a remedy 
for {pitting and piffing blood as the former cheinuts i is for GougmS. 
Vide CHICK WEED. 
IT is generally Known t to moft people, I thal] not therefore trouble you with the 
dg{criptic on thereof, nor mylelf yith, fetting ; forth the feyeral kinds, fince there are, 
but two or three worth notice for their ufefulnefs. ) 
Peace. Thele are ufually found in moift and watery places, by wood. fides, and 
elfewhere, 
Time. They flower about June, and their feed is ripe in July, 
GoyERNMENT AND Virtues. It is a fine, foft, pleafing herb, under the domi. 
nion of the Moon. . It is found to be as effectual as purflain to al} the purpofes 
whereunto i it ferveth, except for meat only. The herb bruifed, or the j juice ap- 
plied, with cloths or fponges dipped therein, to the region of the liver, and as they 
dry to have frefh applied, doth wonderfully temper the heat of the liver, and i is et. 
fe€tual for all impofthumes and fwellings whatfoever 5 for all rednefs inshs F465 
wheals, pufhes, itch, feabs, the juice being either imply uledy or boiled : 1B 18's 
greate 5 the fame helpeth cramps, conyulfions, and pallies : ‘the j juice or dittlied 
water is of good ufe for all heat a and redogls i in the EYES, to drop f fome of i it into 
them as alfo into the ears to eafe the pains in them, and is s of go ood effect ¢ to eafe the 
pains and heat and :fhz -blge Jn she piles, and all pains of the body in ge- 
heral shat prasseshiromieata. it. is led alfo in hot and » virulent ulcers and | fores i in 
the privy parts of men and women, or on the legs, or elfewhere. aie} leayes boiled 
with marfhmallows, and made into a poulric sie Fenner and hi nfeed, applied 
to fwellings or impofthumes, band and breaketh them, or affwageth the {wel- 
lings and eafeth the pains ; > it helpeth the finews. when they are Mhrunk by cramps or 
-_otherwife, and extend and make them pliable ; again, | by ufing the Sollowing t maschaeh 
viz, Boil a oF chickweed, and 2 handful oF diet red role’ 
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