“8  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
COO Reta NN. D-E R. 
Names. IT is called in thops coriandrwm, in-Englith coriander, and in fome 
counties colyander. vt * 
Description. This is a ftinking plant, it beareth a round {talk, full of branches, 
each about a foot and a half long; the leaves are whitith, all jagged and cut, the un-- 
der leaves that fpring up firft, are almoft.like the leaves of chervil or parfley, and the 
. upper leaves are not much unlike the-fame, or rather like to fumitory leaves, but a 
great deal tenderer, and more.jagged ; the flowers are white, and grow in round tué 
fets, the feed is all round, and hollow within, and of a very pleafant-{cent when it is 
dry ; the root is hard.and of a woody fubftance. 3 ; 
Prace. It is fown in gardens, and loveth a good foil. 
Time. It flowereth in July and Auguft, and the {eed is ripe fhortly after. 
GoverNMENT AND Virtus. The green plant is cold and dry, of a Saturnine: 
quality, hurtful tothe body ; but the fweet favouring feed is of a warm temperature, 
and ufeful for many purpofes ; the feed of coriander being prepared, and taken alone, 
or covered with fugar, after meals, clofeth up the mouth of the ftomach, ftayeth vo- 
miting and helpeth digeftion ; the fame roafted or parched, and drank in wine, killeth’ 
and bringeth forth worms out of the body, and ftoppeth the lafk and bloody flux, 
and all other extraordinary iffues of blood. Coriander ought not to be covered with 
-fugar, or to be put into any meat or medicine, nor ufed any way unprepared: the 
way of-preparing it is after this manner, viz. Take of the feed of coriander well dried, 
and pour thereupon good {trong wine and vinegar mixed together, and fo leave them 
to fteep for the fpace of four and twenty hours; then take the feeds out of the liquor 
ig and dry them, and fo keep them-to be ufed in medicine. The green herb coriander 
being boiled with crumbs of white bread, or barley-meal, confumeth and driveth 
het tumours, fwellings, and inflammations; and with bean-meal, it diffolveth 
s.evil, hard knobs, and worms; the juice applied with cerufe, litharge of 
, and oil of rofes, cureth St, Anthony’s fire, and affwageth and ealeth 
flammations, : 
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Names, (I > called, wild-bitter-courd, and the fruit coloquint-apple. 
