194 CULPEPER’ S ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Bleeding of wounds, and taketh away fuch Saaianiations as rife from the pains of 
the heart. It is no lefs available for foul ulcers that are hard-to be cured, as alfo for 
cankers and fiftulas. The diftilled water of the herb will perform the fame vir- 
tues, though not fo fpeedily. ee 3 
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: Description. OUR common groundfell hath a round green and fomewhat 
* brownihh ftalk, {preading towards the top feveral branches, fet with long and fome- 
what narrow green leaves, cut in on the edges, not much unlike the oak leaves, but 
Jefs, and round at the ends ; at the tops of the branches ftand many fimall green 
.. heads, out of which groweth yellow threads or thumbs, which are the flowers ; thefe 
continue many days thus blown before it is turned into down, which with the feed 
¢ is carried away with the wind, Its root is fmall and ska e foon perifhing, ae as 
-foon rifing again from its own fewing. . 
Prace. It grows almoft every where, as well on the tops of walls as among all 
kinds of rubbifh and rude grounds, but efpecially in gardens. : 
~ Fine. Tt may be fen in bloom at almoft any time of the year, and if peated 
to occupy good ground, each plant willfpring and feed at leaft twice ina year. 
Government and Virtues... This herb is influenced by Venus. It is a uni 
yerfal medicine for all difeafes proceeding from heat; in whatever part of the body 
they may chanceto happen ; it is a fafe and gentle purge for a foul ftomach, operat- 
ing each way, . It is of a moift and cold nature, confequently caufeth expulfion, and _ 
_— repreffeth the heat caufed by the motion of the internal parts, through the effects of 
_ an emetic or other medicine. This herb preferved either as afyrup, an ointment, 
a  diftilled water, are medicines unrivalled!in their efficacy for the cure of all hot — 
oe — ifeafes, both for its fafety and fpeed.. The decoction'of this herb, as Diofcorides 
a obferves, made with wine, helpeth the pains of the ftomach proceeding from choler; — 
a ice taken in drink, or the decoction. in ale, gently performeth the fame.” 
sainft the falling ficknels, and jaundice ; and a drachm given'in oximel, 
ttle exercife, provoketh urine, and expelleth the gravel from the reins 
etelerh the {ciatica, alanis and pains of the _ : ane 
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5, hard, “and” narrow leaves ; ; the ftalk i is criangled, 
“a the oe Ue feveral fimall leaves, from ‘ 
tnt i again pains cdead fwellings 3 and, as iz ; 
afirm, with great fuccels, 
among 
