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drynefs and roughnefs of the tongue and throat. It helpeth hoarfenefs of the voice, 
difeafes of the breaft and lungs, caufed by heat or fharp falt humours, and alfo the © 
pleurify. The mucilage of the feed made with plantane-water, with the yolk of an — 
egg anda little populeon added thereto, is a fafe and fure remedy for the fharpnefs, 
prickings, and pains of the hemorrhoids, or piles, if it-be laid on a cloth and bound 
thereto. It healeth inflammations in all parts of the body, and the pains arifing there- 
from, as the head-ach, &c. It eafeth the pains of impofthumes,  fwellings, and 
breakings out of the {kin, as blains, wheals, puthes, purples, and the like; as allo the : 
pains of the joints, gout, {ciatica, and diflocated members ; and applied with oil of 
rofes and vinegar, it is good to help the burfting of young children, and the {welling 
of the navel. Itis a good remedy for fore breafts and nipples of women ; the juice of 
the herb with a little honey put into the ears, helpeth the running and deftroyeth the 
worms breeding therein ; the fame alfo mixed with hog’s greafe, and applied to cor- 
- syupt and filthy ulcers, cleanfeth and healeth them. 
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Names. IT is called alfo in Englifh, mullet, and in Latin conyza. 
Government and Virtves. It is hot and dry in the third degree. The herb 
being fpread under foot, or burnt and {moked in any place, willdrive away venomous — 
‘creatures, and ‘will kill and deftroy fleas and knats. An ointment of the root and 
leaves is ufed with fuccefs for the itch: 
fol FLIX WEED. 
4 Description. IT rifeth up with a round, upright, hard ftalk, four or five feet 
Apreading into feveral branches, whereon grow many grayifh green leaves, 
ry finely cut, and fevered into a number of fhort and almoft round’parts. The 
are very {mall and yellow, growing fpike-fafhion, after which come very 
ds, containing yellowith feed. The root is long and woody, perifh- 
| as is 7 : t fort of this plant, differing from the former only in the leaves, 
ie ene at broader ; both kinds are of a very difagreeable fmell, and of 
abiting tat, i ea ies 
Prace. Th 
_ They grow wild in fields and by he. ighways5 alfo among 
fubbifh: and obkel Blok = “ by hedge-fides and highways; alio 2 
Trae, They flower andeed in June and July. en 
Coven sie? and Virturs. This herb is alfo Saturnine. The herb and feed is 
of excellent ufe to ftay the flux } i 
and laik of the belly, being taken in water wi phi? | 
