32.  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH. PHYSICIAN, 
morning in wine ; the fame is excellent good for ruptures, as alfo to ftop fluxes: ai 
ointment made of it, is excellent good for wounds and ulcers, for it foon dries up 
the watery humour which hinders the cure. - 
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CALLED alfo alecoft, or balfam herb. 
This is fo frequently known to bean inhabitant in almoft every garden, that I fupy 
" -pofe it needlefs to write a defcription thereof. 
Time. It fowereth in June and July. 
_ GovERNMENT AND Viatuss. It is under the dominion of Jupiter. The or- 
dinary coftmary as well as maudlin, provoketh urine abundantly, and moifteneth 
the hardnefs of the mother ; it gently purgeth: choler and phlegm, extenuating that 
which is grofs, and cutting that which is tough. and glutinous, cleanfeth that which 
is foul, and hindereth putrefaction and-corruption ; it diflolveth without attraction, 
openeth obftructions, and healeth their. evil effects, and is a wonderful help to all 
forts of dry agues. It is aftringent to the ftomach, and ftrengtheneth the liver, and 
call the other inward parts, and if taken in, whey worketh the more effectually. Taken — 
fafting in the morning, it-is 'yery- profitable for the pains of the head that are con- 
tinual, and to ftay, dry up, and confume all:thin rheums, or diftillations from the 
head into the ftomach;. and hel peth- much to digeft raw humours that are gathered 
“therein, It is very profitable for thofe that are fallen into a continual evil difpofi- 
= tion of the whole body ¢alled cachexia, .being taken, efpecially in the beginning of 
the difeafe Itisan efpecial friend and help to evil, weakand cold livers. The feed 
aerk is familiarly given to children for the worms, and fo is the infufion of the flowers ia 
nae . ‘ ite wine, giver them to the quantity of two ounces at a time : it maketh an eX- 
Se) cellent falve to cleanfe and heal old ulcers, being boiled with oil olive, and adder’s 
; Ewith its. and after it is ftrained, to put in a little wax, rozin, and turpentine, 
AWinto a convenient body. = laa ee 
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ed, it is alfo called cottonweed, chaffweed, dwarf cotton, and 
a on cudweed rifeth up with one ftalk, though fome= 
5 eee ON all fides with fmall, long, and narrow whitifh or 
~ Mucale of the ftalk almoft up to the top; with every leaf 
oS . ftandeth_ 
