“AND COMPLETE HERBAL > oA 
WINTER ROCKET, or CRESSES. 
~ DescriPTion. WINT ER rocket, or winter crefles, hath divers fomewhat 
like’ curnip-leaves, with fmaller | pieces next the bottom, and broad at the ends, which 
fo abide all winter, (if it {pring up in autumn, when it is ufed to be eaten,) from among 
which rifeth up divers {mall round ftalks full of branches, bearing many fmall yel- 
low flowers of four leaves each, after which come fmall long pods with reddifh feed 
inthem. ‘The root is rather ftringy, and perifheth every year after the feed is ripe. 
Prac. It groweth of its own accord in gardens, and fields, by the Ligh -fides, it in 
divers places. 
Time. It flowereth in May, and feedeth in June, and then perifheth. 7 
“GoverRNMENT AND Virtues. This is profitable to provoke urine, and helpeth 
the ftranguary, and to expel gravel and the ftone ; it is alfo of good effect in the fcur- 
vy. “It is found by experience to bea good herb to cleanfe inward wounds ; the juice 
ot decoétion, being drunk, or outwardly applied to wath foul ulcers and fores, cleanf- 
eth them by fharpnefs, and hindereth the dead Het from Sincrgghe-. event pennants 
. @th asa re the ott quality. 
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LA nO 2 ES. | CONES EEO 
nf HOLD i it needlefs to trouble the reader with a defcription of thefe, fince both 
the garden rofes and the wild rofes of the briers are well enough known; take there- 
fore the virtues of them as followeth ; and firft I thall begin with the garden kinds. 
- GOVERNMENT AND VIRTUES. Red rofes are under Jupiter, damafk under ‘Venus, 
and white under the Moon. The white and the red rofes are cooling and | drying, and 
yet the white i is taken to exceed the red in both thofe properties, but is feldom ufed 
inwardly i in medicine. The bitternefs in the rofes when they are freth, efpecially the 
juice, purgeth choler and watery humours; but, being dried, and that heat which 
caufed the bitternefs. being confumed, they have then a binding quality ; thofe alfo 
that z are not full blown do both cool and bind more than thefe that are full blown, 
and the white rofes more than the red. The decoétion of red rofes, made with wine, 
and ufed, is very good for the head-ach, and pains in the eyes, ears, throat, and gums, 
as alfo for the fundament, the lower bowels, and the matrix, The fame decoétion, 
with the rofes remaining in it, is profitably applied to the region of the heart to eafe 
the ‘inflammation therein ; as alfo St. Anthony’s fire, and other difeafes of. the ftos | 
inach. "Being dried and beaten to powder, and taken into fteeled wine: 0F 3 yatery 
it helpeth to ftay women's courfes.’ The yellow threads inthe middle of the red roles 
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