gs  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH, PHYSICIAN, 
them being two or three feet high, hollowed, and cornered, is alfo very hairy, having — 
many fuch like leaves as grow below, but runs lefs and lefs. upto the top. At the 
“joints of the ftalks it is divided into many branches, with fome leaves thereon, and at 
the ends ftand many flowers in order one above another, which are fomewhat long 
and hollow like the finger of a glove, of a pale whitifh colour, after which come 
fmall black feed. The roots are great and long, fpreading great thick branches un- _ 
der ground, black on the outfide and whitifh within, fhort or eafy to break, and full 
ofa glutinous or clammy juice, of dittle or no tafte at all. 
There is another fort in all things like this, fave only it is fomewhat lefs, and bear- 
eth flowers of a pale purple colour. _ , 
Pace. They grow by ditches and water fides, and in divers fields that are mortt, 
for therein they chiefly delight to grow : : the firft ego through all the land, and 
ae other but i in fome feveral places. | 
Time. They flower in June and July, and give their feed in Husa 
GovernmMENT and Virtues. This is alfo an herb of Saturn, and I fuppofe under 
the fign Capricorn, cold, dry, and earthy in quality. What was fpoken of clown’s. 
‘woundwort may be faid of this; the great comfry helpeth thofe that {pit blood, or 
‘make a bloody urine’; the root bojled in water or wine, and the decoction drank, 
helpeth all inward hurts, bruifes, and wounds, and the ulcers of the lungs, caufeth 
the phlegm that oppreffeth them to be eafily fpit forth; it ftayeth the defluxions of’ 
: theum from the head upon the lungs, the fluxes of blood or humours by the belly, 
‘womens’ immoderate courfes, as well the reds as the whites ; and the running of the 
= reins happening by what caufe foever. A fyrup made thereof is very effectual for all 
__thofe inward griefs and hurts; and the diftilled warer for the fame purpofe alfo, and 
| _ for outward wounds and fores in the flefhy or finewy part of the body wherefoevers 
as salfo to take away the fits of agues, and to allay the fharpnefs of humours. . A’de- 
on. of the leaves hereof is available to all the purpofes, though not fo effectual 
roots. The roots being outwardly apphed, helpeth frefth wounds or cuts im- 
» being bruifed and laid thereunto; and is efpecial good for ruptures and 
yea, it is faid to be fo powerful to confolidate and knit together, that 
ith diffevered pieces of flefh in a pot, it will join them: together 
be applied to womens’ breafts that grow fore by the abundance 
em ; as alfo to reprefs the overmuch bleeding of the hemor 
ation of the parts thereabout, and to give eafe of pains. 
beaten fmall, and fpread apon leather, and laid uP- 
g Sproul Bite eafe of the pains. apd ap- 
