AND COMPLETE HERBAL: mee 
for the cure of all fharp humours, ulcers, or inflammations in the kidneys, reins, and 
bladder ; and for the ftone, jaundice, falling ficknefs, and dropfy.----It-is thus pre- 
pared: Take jujubes, the feed of parfley, fennel, annife, and Carraways, of each 
one ounce ; of the roots of parfley, burnet, faxifrage, and Carraway, one ounce anda 
half; let the-feed be bruifed, and the roots wafhed and cut fmall, then infufe them 
all night in a bottle of white wine, and in the morning boil it in a clofe earthen 
veffel until a third‘part be confumed ; ftrain it and drink four ounces-at a time, the 
firft and laft thing morning and evening, abftaining from all other drink for at leaft 
three hours. ----This you will find effectual for the aforefaid diforders, 
HONEY-WORT. 
' THERE are divers fpecies of the honey-wort, namely, the great, fmall, and 
rough; as, the greater yellow and red ; the greater yellow or purple ; and the {maller 
yellow and white, the flowers of all or either of which the bees are remarkably 
fond of, and much delighted with, 
Deserierion., The greater honey-wort gfoweth up upon a thick green ftalk, to 
a moderate height, having many great, deep-pointed, green leaves, placed one 
above another; towards the top of each ftalk come umbles of flowers, thick fet, 
andrifing up {piral or crefted; moftly of a bright yellow colour; though fome are 
red, others purple, and fome perfectly white. 
Pracs.. The honey-worts. grow not wild j in England, but are cherifhed up in 
gardens, and planted in the pleafure- grounds and nurferies of the curious. 
Time.. They {pring up in April, and flower from the latter end of May to Au- 
suit, but perifh in the winter. 
| GoveRNMENT anp Virtues. Honey-worts are under Mercury. They are of a 
temperate quality, between cold. and hot; but rather inclining to cold, and are fome- 
what aftringent. They ftop bleeding at the mouth and nofe, immoderate fluxes 
of the belly;, and: women’s.courfes. The juice of the herb, with a little faffron dif- 
folved in it, is'an excellent remedy for weak, watery, or blear, eyes; and is ufed 
to heal foul ulcers after they have been cleanfed,. particularly i in tender parts of the 
body, Some peoplé ufe it inftead of buglofs and borage, in all cafes where thole 
herbs are recommended; The flowers.are very {weet 
ALO INDIAN LEAF. 
_Namts. IT is called’ by ‘the Indians cadegt Indi, that is folium mises: It is aio 
| called malabatbrum, and' by the Haft Indians tamala patra. , 
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