286060 CULPEPER’: ‘ENGLISH! PHYSICIAN, 
PELLIT OR Y or the W AIL 
Description, IT rifeth up with many brownih red, tender, weak, clear, and al-' 
moft-tranfparent, ftalks, about two feet high, upon which grow at the feveral joints” 
‘two leaves fomewhat broad and long, of a dark green colour, which afterwards" 
turns brownith, {mooth on the edges, but rough and hairy, as the’ ftalks are alfo. 
- At the joints with the leaves, from the middle of the ftalks upwards, where it fpread- 
éth into fome branches, ftand many f{mall, pale, purplifh, flowers, in hairy rough 
heads or hufks, after which comes fmall, black, and rough, feed, which fticks to 
any cloth or garment it may chance to touch. The root is fomewhat long, with 
many fmall fibres thereat, of a dark reddifh colour, which abideth the winter, al- 
though the ftalks and leaves perifh, and fpring afrefh every year, 
Prace. It generally groweth wild, in moft parts of the kingdom, about the 
borders of fields, by the fides of walls, and among rubbifh. It profpereth well 
when broughtiup in gardens, and, if once planted on the fhady fide, it will after- 
‘wards {pring of itsown fowing. — | 02 ae 
Time. It flowereth in June, July, and beginning of Auguft, and the feed is ripe 
foon after. . Arid 
- GovERNMENT AND Viturs. It is under the dominion of Mercury. The dried 
herb pellitory made up into an ele@uary with honey, or the juice of the herb, or the 
decottion thereof made up with fugar or honey, is a fingular remedy for any old or 
‘dry cough, thortnefs of ‘breath, and wheefing in the throat.. Three ounces of the 
juice thereof, taken at a time, greatly help the ftoppage of the urine; and expel the 
ftone or gravel in the kidneys or bladder, and are therefore ufually put among other 
‘herbs ufed- in clyfters to mitigate pains inthe back, ‘fides, or bowels, proceeding 
‘from wind, ftoppage of urine, the gravel, or ftone, ‘as aforefaid. If the bruiféd 
herb, fprinkled with fome mufcadine, be warmed upon a tile, or in a'difh, upon a 
lick coals in a chafing-difh, and applied to the ‘belly, it hath the fame: effet. 
oction of the herb, being drunk, eafeth pains of the’mother, and forwards 
we gxele a fr 
the teeth. 
fame effets 
aon bite 3 ia ei 
burn, morphew, & 
hroat. ‘The juice, if helda while in’ th , eafet a 
illed water of the herb, drank’ with fome fugar, prodaceth the 
leanfeth the skin from {pots, freckles,” purples; wheals, “fith- 
"The juice, dropped into the ears, eaféth the ‘noife thered 
and taketh away the pricking and fhooting pains therein. The fame} or the diftilled 
