280 CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
ferved either wet or dry, befide their ufe in banquets, they are very effectual for 
ftrengthening the heart and fpirits. Though the juice is inferior to thofe of the ci- 
tron and lemon, and fitter for meat than medicine, yet four or five ounces of the 
juice taken at a time, in wine or ale, will drive forth putrid humours from the ins 
ward parts by fweat, and ftrengthen and comfort the heart. The diftilled water of 
- the flowers, befides the odoriterous fcent it hath as a perfume, is good againft con- 
tagious difeafes and peftilential fevers, by drinking thereof at fundry times, it 
helpeth alfo the moift and cold infirmities of the womb; the ointment that is made 
of the flowers is good to anoint the ftomach, to help the cough, and expeétorate cold 
raw phlegm and to warm and comfort the other parts of the body. ; 
YUrarsLEy. 
THIS is fo well known that it needs no defcription. 
GoveRNMENTAND Virtues. Itis under the dominion of Mercury, and is very 
comfortable to the ftomach ; it helpeth to provoke urine, women’s courfes, and to 
break wind both in the ftomach and bowels; it a little openeth the body, but the 
root poffeffeth this laft virtue in a greater degree, opening obftructions both of the 
liver and fpleen; and is therefore accounted one of the five opening roots ; Galen 
commendeth it againft the falling ficknefs, and fays it mightily provokes urine, if 
boiled and eaten like'parfnips. The feed is alfo effectual to provoke urine and wo- 
men’s courfes, expel wind, break the ftone, and eafe the pains and torments there- 
of, or of any other part of the boby, occafioned by wind. It is alfo effectual againft 
the venom of any poifonous creature, and the dangerous confequences which arife 
from the taking of litharge ; and is good againft a cough. The diftilled water of 
Be ‘parfley is a familiar medicine with nurfes to give to children when they are troubled _— 
- with wind in the ftomach or belly, which they call the frets ; it is alfo greatly ufeful 
to grown perfons. The leaves of parfley, when ufed with bread or meal, and laid 
to the eyes that are inflamed with heat, or fwoln, doth greatly relieve them ; and, 
being fried with butter, and applied to women’s breafts that are hard through the 
curdling of the milk, it quickly abateth the hardnefs; it alfo taketh away black and 
blue marks arifing from bruifes or falls. The juice, dropped into the ears with @ 
‘little wine, eafeth the pains thereof: Tragus recommends the following, as an ¢x- 
cellent medicine to help the jaundice and falling ficknefs, the dropfy, and ftone in 
the kidneys, viz. Take of the feeds of parfley, fennel, anife, and carraways, of 
each an ounce; of the roots of parfley, burnet, faxifrage, and carraways, of each 
- one ounce and an half; let the feeds be bruifed, and the roots wafhed and cut fmall; 
