218 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
RNOT.GRAS 5. 
AIT is fo univerfally known, that a defcription would be quite unneceffary. 
Piace. It grows in almoft every part of this kingdom, by the gic fides, 
by the footpaths in fields, and by the fides of old walls. 
- Time. It grows up late in the {pring, and remains green till the. winter, when 
all the branches perifh. iy 54 
GOVERNMENT AND Virtues, Saturn appears to whee dominion over. this herb, 
though many areof opinion it’is influenced by the Sun. The juice of the common 
kind of knot-grafs is very effectual to ftay bleeding at the mouth and nofe, by drink- 
ing it in fteeled or red wine for the one, or applied to the forehead. or fquirted up the 
noftrils for the other. It is no lefs effectual to cool and temper the heat of the blood 
and {tomach ; alfo to ftay fluxes of blood and humours, as the lafk, bloody flux, 
women’s courfes, and running of the reins. Itis a fingular provocative of urine, 
it helps the ftranguary, and allayeth the’ heat proceeding therefrom; and, by taking 
a drachm of the powder of the,herb in wine, for feveral days together, it powerfully 
expels the gravel or ftone from the kidneys and bladder, Being boiled; in wine. and, 
drunk, it healeth the wounds made by. the bitings of venomous creatures,, effectually 
ftays all defluxions of rheumatic humours upon the ftomach, kills the worms in the 
belly, and-eafes the inward pains that proceed from the heat, fharpnefs, and corrup- 
tion, of blood, and choler.. The diftilled water of this herb taken by. itfelf, or withthe 
powder of. the plant or feed, will equally anfwer all the aforefaid purpofes, and. is 
 heldin high eftimation for i its admirable efficacy in cooling all-manner of inflamma- 
‘tions, breakings out, hot fwellings and impofthumes, gangrenes, fiftulous cankers, 
_ ulcers and fores in the privities of either fex,Jand all kinds of frefh and green: wounds, 
and -guickly healing them, being wathed therewith. The juice,, dropped into 
the ears, cleanfeth fuch as are foul and have. running matter therein, and. is. very, g00d 
3 eriekendoines and.tu ptures, 
oe YE RA 4.1 7 
Sa AND oo, IT'is called alfo glafs-wort and falt-wort ;, there aré : four 
‘kinds of kali ‘deferibed by Parkinfon, viz, 1. Kai majus cocbleatum, great glafs-wort 
with fnail-like feed. 2. Kali minus album, {mall glafs-wort. 3, Kali Aigyptiacum, glals- 
wort of Egypt. And 4. Kali geniculatum, five faliccrnia, jointed glafs wort. 1 thall 
only defcribe the laft, 
Thisjointed kali, or glafs-wort, groweth up ufually but with one upright, round, 
thick, and almoft tranfparent, ftalk, a foor high or more; thick fet, and full of joints 
orknots, without - leaves at all, bur thooting forth) joints one gat of another, with 
fhort 
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