260. CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
eafes of the throat; alfo outwardly for {cabs, itch, or other fuch infirmities ; and 
- Cleanfeth the face from morphew, {pots, freckles, and other deformities, 
People who are fond of mufic, and would with to improve their voices, have 
only to mix fome of the powder of muftard feed with honey into balls, and, by fwal- 
- lowing one or two every morning fafting, in a fhort time they will find their voices 
to beclear. Muftard feed and onions, mixed together, provoke weeping. 
LE HEDGE-MUSTARD. 
Description. THIS groweth up ufually but with one blackifh green ftalk, 
tough, eafy to bend, but not break, branched into divers parts, and fometimes with 
‘divers ftalks fet full of branches, whereon grow long, rough, or hard rugged leaves, 
very much torn or cut on the edges into many parts, fome larger and fome fmaller, 
of adirty green colour; the flowers are {mall and yellow, growing at the tops of the 
- branches in long fpikes, flowering by degrees; the ftalks have {mall round pods at 
the bottom, growing upright, and clofe to the ftalk, whilft the flowers yet fhew 
themfelves ; in which are contained fmall yellow feed, fharp and ftrong, as the herb 
is alfo. The root groweth down flender and woody, yet abiding, and fpringing 
again every year. : | 
Prace. This groweth generally by the roads and hedge-fides ; but fometimes in 
the open fields. : 
Timez. It flowereth ufually about July. 
. GovernMENT AND Virtuzs. Mars owns this herb alfo. It is fingularly good 
’  Anall the difeafes of the cheft and lungs, hoarfenefs of voice; and, by the ufe of the 
decoétion thereof, fome have been recovered who had utterly loft their voices, and 
nearly their fpirits alfo. The juice of this herb, made into a fyrup with honey or fu- 
gar, is'no lefs effectual for the fame purpofes, and for coughs, wheefing, and fhort- 
nefs of breath. It is alfo ferviceable to thofe who have the jaundice, the pleurify, 
Pains in the back and loins, and for torments in the belly, or the cholic ; it is alfo 
ed'in clyfters. The feed is held to be a {pecial remedy againft poifon and venom, 
ngulatly good for the fciatica, the gout, and all joint-achs, fores and cankers 
~ in the mouth, throat, or behirid the ears; it is alfo equally ferviceable in reducing 
the hardheff and {welling of the tefticles, and of women’s breafts. 
= MASTIC TREE. 
Names. IT i8 called’ ih Latin /ensifius, and the gum or rofin, rena lentifeina, 
and maftiche, and maftix ; in Englith, maftic. 
DescriP- 
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