8  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
i eee B.A. SE. 
IT is called in Suffex panfies, and is fo well-known by otc every perfon, that 
¥ fhail decline troubling my readers with a: defcription of it. 
‘Pace. Befides thofe which are cultivated 1 in gardens, they grow wild in barren 
and unfertile grounds. 
Time. They flower and feed all the time of fpring and fummer. 
‘ Government and Virturs, This is a Saturnine plant, of a cold, flimy, and 
vifcous nature. A ftrong decoétion of the herb and flowers is an excellent cure for 
the venereal diforder, being an approved anti-venerean ; itis alfo good for the con. 
vulfions in children, falling ficknefs, inflammations of the lungs and breaft, pleu- 
rify, fcabs, itch, &c. It will make-an excellent fyrup for the aforefaid purpoles. 
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THE Latins call them cineria, and they are alfo termed artichocus. 
GovernMeENT and Virtues. They are under the dominion of Venus. They are 
great provokatives to Inft, yet ftayeth the involuntary.courfe of natural feed in man; 
the decoction of the root boiled in wine, or the root bruifed gnd diftilled in wine, 
and drank, purgeth by urine exceedingly. 
HUY anne €GN Gu &. 
Description. It.confifts.of feveral leaves rifing from the root, every one fepa- 
rately, folding themfelves in their firft fpringing and fpreading, when at their 
full growth they are about a foot long, fmooth and green, but hard and fappy in 
the middle, ftraked on the back athwart on both fides of the middle rib, with fmall 
in nd fomewhat long brownifh marks; the bottoms of the leaves are a little bowed 
on ach fide of the middle rib, and fomewhat fmall at the end. The root is com- 
aS 0 many black threads, which are much entangled together. 
It is green all the winter, having new leaves every year. 
ans AND VIRTUES, Jupiter, claims dominion o over this herb. Iti isa 
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7 ae for the paffions of the heart, a gargled in the 
mouth will ftay the hiccough, help the falling of the palate, and ftop the bleeding 
& the gums. It isa good =e. for the biting of ferpents. 
HAZEL- 
