AND COMPLETE HERBAL: ; 451° 
Caffia is excellent good for thofe who are troubled with hot agues,. the pleurify, 
jaundice, or any inflammation of the liver; efpecially being mixed with waters, 
drinks, or herbs that are of a cooling nature, It is good to clean the reins and kid- 
nies, it driveth forth gravel and the ftone, and is a prefervative againft the {tone if 
drank in the decoction of liquorice, and parfly roots, or ciches. It is good te gargle 
with caffia, to affwage and mitigate fwellings of the throat, and to cmon ripen, and 
break impofthumes and tumours. 
Avicen writeth, that caffia being applied to. the part gticived sik the gout, a 
fwageth the pain. 
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Kinp and Names. THERE are feveral kinds of coral, “but theered and the 
white, efpecially the red, is moft in ufe. There are alfo feveral forts of black coral, 
called antipathes, and there is a kind of coral which is black, x rough, and briftly, and 
is called fambeggia. 
Description. Thefe plants, although their hard fubftance ake them feem ra- 
ther to, be ftones, yet they are vegetables. The great red coral, which is the bett, 
groweth upon rocks in the fea, like unto a fhrub, with arms and branches, which 
fhoot forth into fprigs, fome large and fome fmall, of a pale red colour for the moft 
part, when it is taken out of the water, but when it is polifhed it is very fair, and of 
a beautiful red colour ; whilit it isin the water it is foft and pliable, but being taken 
out and kept dry a while, it becomes of a hard ftoney fubftance. 
— Thecorals are found in the ifles of Sardinia, and divers other places. 
MOM G Dos iho Bo Bi 
THESE. are alfo fo well. known to almoft every child, that F fuppofe it is alto- 
gether needlefs to write any ene of them. ‘Fake therefore the virtues of them 
as followeth. 
* Government AND Virtues. The herb is uilaee the fign Canter. and under the 
dominion of Venus ; and therefore excellent good for wounds in the breatt, and very 
fitting to be kept both in oils, ointments, and plaifters; as alfoinfyrup. Thegreater 
wild daify is a wound herb of ‘good refpect, ‘often ufed inthofe drinks or falves that : 
are for. wounds, either inward or outward ; the} juice or diftilled water of thefe, or the — 
fall daifies, doth much tenmper the heat of choler, and refrefheth the liver and other ¢ z aes S 
inward parts. A decoétion made of them, and drank, helpeth to cure the wounds 
made in the hollownefs of the breatt ; ; the fame alfo cureth all ulcers and puft 
the mouth or tongue, or in the fecret parts. The leaves bruifed and applied to the 
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