AND COMPLETE HERBAL: gu 
and therefore they are forbidden in agues; and thofe that are four are fit for a hot 
fainting ftomach, ftay vomiting, and provoke urine, but are fomewhat offenfive to 
the teeth and gums in the eating. The feed within the fruit, and the rind 
thereof, do bind very forceably, whether the powder or the decoction be taken, and 
ftay cafting, the bloody-flux, women’s courfes, the fpitting of blood, and running 
of the reins, and is faid to be good for the dropfy : the flowers work the fame ef- 
feéts. This fruit is good againft the bite of the fcorpion, and ftayeth the immoderate 
longings of women with child ; the decottion of the rind or feeds of the fruit, with 
alittle fyrup put toit, is good againft the cankers in the mouth and ulcers ‘in any 
part.of the body, and.againft ruptures ; it alfo helpeth ulcers in the‘ears or nofe, 
or rheums in the eyes, being dropped or injected , it fafteneth loofe: teethy de- 
ftroyeth the flat worms in the , and helpeth to take away wens. Withethe rinds 
of pomegranates, inftead of gal 8, or with galls, is made tebe seh ‘ink, both 
- blacknefs and cee wel oi) JOwoR siduob of 
ff I CUBEN. oF: OF THE MEADOWS, OR 2, MEADOW-SWEET. 
f Fesacie: 1on.. THE ftalks of this. are reddifh, rifing to be three feet high, 
fonietimes four or five feet, having at the joints thereof large winged leaves. fet on 
each fide of a middle rib, being hard, rough, or rugged, crumpled like elm leaves, 
having alfofome fmaller leaves with them, (as agrimony hath,) fomewhat deeply 
dented. about.the edges, of a fad green colour on the upper fide, and greyifh under- 
neath, of a pretty fharp fcent and tafte, fomewhat like unto burnet ; and a leaf there- 
of, put into acup of claret, giveth it a fine relifh: at the tops of the ftalks and 
. branches ftand many tufts of fmall white leaves thick together, which {mell much 
fweeter than the leaves ; and in their places, being fallen, come crooked and cornered 
: feed. The root is fomewhat woody, and blackifh on the outfide, and brownith with- 
“in, with divers greater ftrings and leffer fibres fet thereat, of a ftrong {cent, but 
2 not fo pleafant as the flowers and leaves ; it abideth many years, fhooting forth anew 
‘every {pring. 
* Pace. It grows in moift meadows, or near the courfes fo water, 
© ‘Tame. Itflowereth in fome place or other all the three fummer months, viz. June, 
july, and Auguft ; and the feed is ripe quickly after. 
; GoveRNMENT AND Virtues. - Venus claims dominion over this herb. Iti is ufed 
to {tay all manner of bleedings, fluxes, vomitings, and women’s courfes, as alfo their 
whites : It is faid to take away the fits of quartan agues, and to make a merry heart, 
‘for which purpofe fome ufe the flowers, and fome the leaves. It fpeedily gui’ 
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