"oe CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Prace. It is an ufuai inhabitantof gardens ; and, though it feldom giveth any 
good feed, yet this defect is recompenfed by the plentiful increafe of the root, which 
being once planted in a garden, is hardly to be eradicated. It flowers in Auguft. | 
GovERNMENT anD Virtues. It isan herbof Venus. Diofcorides faith, it hath 
a heating, binding, and drying, quality ; therefore the j juice, taken with vinegar, 
ftayeth bleeding ; it is an incentive to venery and bodily luft. Two or three 
branches thereof, taken with the juice of four pomegranates ftayeth the hiccough, 
vomiting, and allayeth choler. It diffolveth impofthumes, being applied with bar- 
ley-meal. It is good to reprefs the milk in women’s breafts ; and for fuch as have 
fwoln, flagging, or large, breafts. Applied with falt, it helpeth the bite of a mad 
dog ; with mead or honeyed water, it eafeth the pains of theears, and taketh away 
the roughnefs of the tongue, being rubbed thereupon. If the leaves are boiled or 
fteeped in milk before drinking, it hindereth the curdling thereof on the ftomach. 
In fhort, it is a very powerful ftomachic. The frequent ufé hereof is very efficacious 
_in flopping women’s courfes and the whites. Applied to the forehead or temples, 
it eafeth pains of the head ; it is good to wath the heads of young children, being a 
preventative againft all manner of breakings out, fores, or fcabs, thereon; it alfo 
healeth chops in the fundament, and is exceedingly ufeful again{ft the poifon of ve- 
nomous creatures. The diftilled water from mint, is available for all the purpofes 
aforefaid, yet more weakly ; but the {pirit thereof, when properly and chemically 
drawn, is much more powerful than the herb itfelf. Simeon Sethi faith, it helps . 
eth acold liver ; ftrengtheneth the belly and ftomach ; caufeth digeftion; ftayeth 
‘vomiting and the hiccough; is good againft the gnawing of the heart; provoketh 
| appetite ; taketh away obftructions of the liver, and ftirreth up bodily luft; but 
it muft not be taken in too great quantities, as it tends to make the blood thin and 
--wheyifh, and turneth it into choler; therefore choleric people muft abftain from it. 
| is afafe medicine for the bite of a mad * dog, being bruifed with falt, and applied 
wound, The powder of it, being dried, and taken-after victuals, helpeth 
digeftion, and thofe that are fplenetic. - Taken in wine, it helpeth women in fore 
vail child- bearing. It is good againft the gravel and ftone in the kidneys, and 
nguary. Being {melled unto, it is comfortable FeXthe head and memory. 
The decoctio thereof, when ufed asa gargle, cureth the mouth and gums, when 
“fore. and helpeth. -ftinking breath ; when mixed with Tue and coriander, alfo ufed 
_* For the bite ofa mad do 9 pepanttior’ Ss Solar Tinéture combines all the virtues of this and other 
{uch herbs, and is an infallible remedy, whether the bite is received by man or beatt. Let the part 
"bitten be wathed clean out, after which, pour the Tin@ture in and round the affe&ted part, and 
awherever the hydrophobia is fuppofed to have fallen. Bind on fome lint dipped three oF four 3 
times, and leta few drops beeen frequently j in a wine ‘glafs of water. ing 
