20 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
- when they are ripe, and not dried, they purge the body of grofs and clammy phlegm; — 
but, if you dry the berries and beat them into powder, they are binding ; they ftop 
fluxes of every kind, as alfo the terms of women, Both the bark and leaves are ex- 
ceeding good to be ufed in fementations for broken bones and diflocated members*, : 
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i Dusch mio THE great ondary hound’s tongue ‘Hath many. Jong and fome- ;f 
what narrow, foft, hairy, darkith green, leaves, lying on the ground, and not much 
unlike thofe of buglofs; from among thefe rifeth up'a rough hairy, flalk, about 
two feet high, with fmaller leaves’ thereon, and branched at the top into many parts, 
bearing. at the foot of each a imall leaf; on. this. branch are many “flowers, which 
i confilt of {mall purplith red leaves, of a dead colour, {carcély rifing out of the hufk 
wherein they ftand, with a few threads in the middle. Tt hath fometimes a white 
flower. After the flowers are fallen, there. follow, rough flat feed, with a {mall poin- 
tel in the middle, eafily cleaving to any thing x it happens to ‘touch. The branch 
whereon thefe flowers grow is crooked, or turned inwards, ‘before they are in bloke 
fom, but ftraightens icfelf as the flowers come. to perfection, The root is black, 
thick, ‘and long, hard to break, and full of clammy juice, imelling fomewhat 
ftrong and difagreeable, as do alfo the leaves. _ 
Prace. It groweth in moft parts of this. kingdom, in waite grounds, untilled : 
places, highway-fides, and under hedges. 
ee _ Time. It generally owereth in the months of 2 ae Jone, and the feed i 
fhortly after. * 
GoveRNMENT AND. Viru It is a nf 
€ root is very effeGtually ufed in pills and decottions, or otherwite, to fay all 
arp and thin defluxions of rheum from the head int into the eyes va 
mide: ie “daateion of Mercury. 
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r nofe, or upon. the : 
ch or Oey as alfo for cousts and fhortnefs of breath. _ The leaves boiled ia j 
he teste July 3 Tet. pee feild or 5 igh —- or till i it is teas deal | 
This fort of 
_ fortnight or three weeks a”: beat it in a mortar a it may be knead ik 
doughs then wath in water it “ 
