174 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
flowers in wine, with @little nutmeg or mace therein, and-drank feveral times in & 
day, is an approved provokative of women’s courfes, as alfo a great help toexpel ithe — 
dead and afterbirths ; and to fit over the ‘hot fumes of the decoction of the herb 
made in water or wine, will prove equally ferviceable. The decoCion mixed-with 
fugar or honey, is good tohelp a cough, to cleanfe the cheft or ftomach of phlegm, 
and to expel the ftone. The powder of the herb taken in wine, with fome oximel, 
purgeth both choler and phlegm, and is good for thofe who are fhort winded, or 
are troubled with melancholy or lownefs of {pirits', itis effeCtual in removing all 
pains of the head arifing from a cold, ‘the herb being bruifed, and applied tothe © 
crown thereof; ufedin the fame manner, it is likewife good for: the {wimming or 
giddinefs of the head. The decoétion thereof drank warm, and the herb :bruiled 
with a few grains of bay-falt; and applied to the wrifts, will prevent the return of 
ague fits. The diftilled water taketh away freckles and other {pots of the fkin, and 
other blemithes in the face ; the herb bruifed and ‘heated on a tile, with fome wine 
to moiften it, or fryed with alittle oil and wine in a frying-pan, and applied warm 
outwardly, helpeth-the wind and cholick i in the lower part of the belly. Itis an ef 
,pecial remedy againft opium taken too liberally. 
Vy) FE MM. Ek 
EVERY garden affordeth this fo plentifully, that it needeth no defcription. 
GOVERNMENT and. Virtues. It is governed by Mercury, under Virgo, and 
“‘beareth antipathy to Rifces. It is exceeding good to boil with fifh, as it con- 
fumeth the phlegmatick:humour arifing therefrom. Fennel is good to break wind, 
_ provoke.urine, and eafe the pains of as well as break the ftone, The leaves and 
feed boiled in barley-water and drank, is good to increafe milk, and make: it more. 
wholefome. The leaves, or rather the feed boiled in water, ftayeth the hiccough, 
an taketh away that loathing which often happens to the ftomach of fick and fe- 
erith petfons, and allayeth the heat thereof; the feed boiled: in wine and dratiks : 
: ae and windy viitinibe of the iis the saiasaehias and 
_ the gout and. Ps the feed is alfo of great ufe in medicines, to help fhortnefs ot 
breath, and wheezing “by ftoppage of the lungs ; and it-helpeth. to bring down the 
courfés, and cleanfe ¢ 1€ parts after delivery. The roots are good when ufed jn diet- 
drinks and broth, that are taken to cleanfe the blood, to open obftrudtions of the 
liver, to provoke the urine, to amend the ill colour in the face after facknefs, and 
to caufe a good habit of the body. ‘The diftitled water of the whole herb, or the 
gondent ate juice diffolved, (but efpecially the natural juice that iffueth forth a ; 
