318. CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
comes of rheum; and is very powerful to open obftructions of the liver and {pleen; 
and other parts. A diftilled water, made in balneo maria with four pounds of the 
roots hereof, firft fliced {mall, and afterwards fteeped in a gallon of Canary wine, is 
very. good for all the purpofes aforefaid, and to cleanfe the paflages of the urine. The 
powder of the faid root made into an electuary or lozenges with fugar, as alfo the bark 
of the frefh roots boiled tender, and afterwards beaten into a conferve with fugar, 
worketh the like effect. The powder of the roots, ftrewed upon the brims of ulcers, 
or mixed with any other convenient thing and applied, confumeth the hardnefs, and 
caufeth them to heal the better. 
G2 nm OC UE. Be ty 
~ AS the garden-rocket is rather ufed as a fallad-herb than to any phyfical purpofes, 
I fhall omit it, and only fpeak of the common wild rocket. 
Description. The common wild rocket hath longer and narrower leaves, much 
more divided into flender cuts and jags on both fides of the middle rib than the gar- 
den kinds have, of a fad greencolour, from among which rifeth up divers {tiff talks, 
two or three feet high, fometimes fet with the like leaves, but fmaller, and much lefs 
upwards, branched from the middle into fundry ftalks; bearing yellow flowers of 
four leaves each, as the others are, which afterwards yield fmall reddifh feed, in fmall 
long pods, of a more bitter and hot biting tafte than the garden kinds, as are the 
leaves likewife. 
_ Prace. It is found wild in moft places of Great Britain, 
Time. It flowereth about June and July, and the feed is ripe in Auguft. 
| . GoveRNMENT AND Virtues, The wild rocketsare forbidden to be ufed alone, 
ans their fharpnefs fumeth into the head, caufing ach and pain ; and are no 
lefs hurtful to hot and choleric perfons, for fear of inflaming their blood. Mars rules 
them. The wild rocket is more ftrong than the garden kinds; it ferveth to help 
ligef ion, and provoketh urine exceedingly. The feed is ufed to cure the bitings 
fer D nts, the {corpion, the fhrew-moufe, and other poifons, and expelleth the worms 
-and other noifome creatures that breed in the body. The herb, boiled or {tewed, 
and fome fu ar put thereto, helpeth the cough in children, being taken often. The 
- feed alfo, taken in drink, taketh away the ill {cent of the arm-pits, increafeth milk in 
nurfes, and wafteth the fpleen. The feed, mixed with honey, and ufed on the face, 
cleanfeth the fkin_ from {pots, morphew, and other difcolourings ; and, ufed with 
vinegar, RPT ckles and rednefs i in the face or other parts ; and, with the 
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RHEOD “WINTER 
