132 CULBEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
tefticles, orto any other parts that are fwollen and hot, doth diffolve it and temper 
the heat. A decoétion made hereof with walwort and agrimony, and the places fo- 
mented or bathed therewith warm, giveth great eafe to thofe who are troubled with 
the palfy, {ciatica, or gout ; the fame alfo difperfecth and diffolveth the knots or ker- 
nels that grow in the fleth of any part of the body, and the bruifes and hurts that come 
by falls and blows; they are alfo ufed for ruptures and other inward burnings, with 
very good fuccefs. An ointment made hereof, doth wonderfully help all wounds 
that have inflammations about them, or, by reafon of moift humours having accefs 
unto them, are kept long from healing ; and fuch are thofe for the moft part, that 
happen.to the joints of the arms and legs. The juice of them dropped into the run- 
ning.eyes of any, doth much help them. 
MNSL0 ba SE OD 
“VULGARLY called pifs-a-beds. 
Description. IT is well known to have many long and deeply gafhed leaves 
lying on the ground, round about the head of the root; the ends of each gath or jag 
on both fides, looking downwards toward the root, the middle rib being white, which 
broken, yieldeth abundance of bitter milk, but the root-much more. From among 
the leaves, which always abide green, arife many flender, weak, naked footftalks, 
every one of them bearing at the top, one large yellow flower, confifting of many 
rows of yellow leaves, broad at the points, and nicked in, with a deep {pet of yeHow 
in the middle ; which growing ripe, the green hufk wherein the ower ftood, turneth 
-itfelf down to the ftalk, and the head of down becometh as round as a ball, with long 
oe reddifh feed underneath, bearing a part of the down on the head of every one, which 
=; together is blown away with the wind, or may.at once be blown away, with one’s 
mouth. The root growing downwards exceeding deep, which being -broken off 
\ the ground, will notwithftanding, fhoot forth again.; .and will hardly be de- 
vhen it hath once taken deep root in the ground. 
: t groweth frequent in all meadows and pafture grounds. : 
flowereth i in one place or other almoft all the year long. 
T and Virtues. It is under the dominion of Venus. It is of an 
ag quality, and therefore very effectual for the obftructions of 
een, and the difeafes that arife from them, as the jaundice, and 
ORs Te wonderfully openeth the paflages of urine, both ia 
powe oes eee and inward tumours in the uri- 
nary panne, sade the dryin andt 
