324. CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
diftilled, in a quart of mufcadine until a forth part be confumed ; then put to them 
a pint of oil of trotters, or fheep’s feet ; let them boila good while, {till ftirring them 
well, which being ftrained, anoint the grieved part therewith, warm againft the fire, 
rubbing it well with your hand, and bind alfo fome of the herb, if you choofe, to 
the place, and with God’s bleffing it will help in three times dreffing. 
nS Socourven Po RS. Ee 
IT is alfo called by fome cicers. 
Description. The garden forts; whether red, black, or white, bring forth 
ftalks a yard long, whereon doth grow many {mali and almoft round leaves, dented 
about the edges, fet on both fides of a middle rib ; at the joints come forth one or 
two flowers upon fharp foot{talks, peafe-fafhion, either whitith, Or purpleifh red, 
lighter or deeper, according as the peafe that follow will be, that are contained in 
fmall, thick, and fhort pods, wherein lie one or two peafe, though ufually more, a 
little pointed at the lower end, and almoft round at the head, 
Sharp, The root is fmall, and perifheth yearly, 
 Pracwand Time. They are fown in gardens, or in fields, as peafe, being fown 
later than peafe, and gathered at the fame time with them, or prefently after. 
Government and Virtuss. They are both under the dominion of Venus. 
They are no lefs' windy than beans, but nourifh more, they provoke urine, and are 
thought to increafe fperm, they have a ‘cleanfing faculty, whereby they break the 
ftone inthe kidnies, To drink the cream of them being boiled in water, is the beft 
way, Tt moveth the belly downwards, provoketh the women’s courfes, and urine, 
increafeth both milk and feed. One ounce of ‘cicers, 7 
yet a little cornered or 
‘two ounces of French barley, 
and a fmall handful of marfhmallows roots, clean wafhed and cut, being boiled in 
the broth of a chicken, and four ounces taken in the morning, 
after, isa good medicine for a pain in the fides. The white cicers 
meat than medicine, yet have they the fame effect, and ! 
toincreafe milk and feed. 9 aS g5 oh 
Phe nn, cet: ate fo much more powerful than the garden kinds, by how much 
emcees them in heat and drynefs, whereby they are more effectual in opening 
el eends the ftone, and having al the properties of cutting, openings 
olving, more fpeedily and certainly than the former. 
fafting two hours 
are ufed more for 
are thought more powerful 
=. <aletia lomiercetintiies, Sive-fngered- grate, of five leved eral 
Description. This fpreadeth ang creepeth far upon the groung, with long 
flender 
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