2s CULPEPER” 8 ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
coction doth help the itch, if wathed therewith; being put into baths for womento 
fit therein, it helpeth the {welling and hardnefs of the mother. The green herb 
_ bruifed, and put into vinegar, cleanfeth foul ulcers, and taketh away the marks of 
bruifes and blows about the eyes, and all difcolouring of the face by fire, and the 
leprofy, being drunk and outwardly applied; boiled in wine, with honey and falt, 
it helpeth the tooth ach, It helpeth the cold griefs of the joints, taking away the 
pains, and warming the cold parts, being faft bound to the place after a bathing 
or fweating. Pliny addeth, that penny-royal and mint together help faintings or 
fwoonings, infufed in vinegar, and put to the noftrils, or a little thereof put into 
the mouth. It eafeth the head-ach, and the pains of the breaft and belly, ftayeth the 
gnawing of the ftomach, and inward pains of the bowels ; being drunk in wine, it 
provoketh the courfes, and expelleth the dead childand after-birth ; ; it helpeth the 
falling-ficknefs : put into unwholefome or ftinking water that men muft drink, as 
at fea, and where other cannot be had, it maketh iclefs hurtful. It helpeth crampsor 
convulfions of the finews, being applied with honey, falt, and vinegar. It is vety 
effectual for acough, being boiled in milk and drunk, and for ulcers and fores in 
the mouth. Mathiolus faith, the deco¢tion thereof, being drunk, helpeth the jaun- 
dice, and all pains of the head and finews that come of a cold caufe ; and that it 
helpeth to clear and quicken the eye-fight. Applied to the noftrils of thofe thar 
have the falling-ficknefs, or the lethargy, or put into the mouth, it helpeth them 
much, being bruifed in vinegar, and applied. Mixed with barley meal, it helpeth 
Seige and, ee into the ears, eafeth the pains of them. 
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24 PEONY, MALE anp FEMALE. 
eee iption. THE male peony rifeth up with many brownifh ftalks, whereon 
grow a b great number of fair green, and fometimes reddifh, leaves, each, of which, is 
ainft another upon a ftalk without any particular divifion i in the leaf. ve “be, 
lowers ar d at the tops of the ftalks, confiltingof fiveor fix broad leaves, of : a. fair. 
purplith ‘red. colour, with many yellow threads in. the middle, ftanding about ‘the. 
head, which after rifeth to be the feed-veffels, divided into two, three, or four, rough 
crooked: pods like horns, which, being full ripe, open and turn themfelves down one 
edge to another backward, fhewing within them divers round, black, fhining, feed, 
having alfo many red. or ctimfon grains, intermixed with the black, whereby i ipmak- 
eth a very pretty yee enon are. thick and long, earners and cuales dona’ 
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