‘AND ‘COMPLETE HERBAL: 386" 
with wormwood is good for the bloody flux: Pliny faith, it helpeth the ftinging and 
biting of ferpents, killéth worms that breed in the ears and in fores. Sage is of ex- 
cellent ufe to help the memory, warming‘and quickening the fenfés, and the conferve 
made of the flowers is ufed to the fame purpofe, and alfo forall the former recited dif- 
eafes.. The juice of fage drunk with vinegar hath been of good ufe againft the. 
plague at all times, Gargles likewife are made with fage, rofemary, honey-fuckles, 
and plantane, boiled in wine or water, with fome honey or allum put thereto, to wath 
fore mouths and throats. With other hot and comfortable herbs, fage is boiled to 
bathe the body and legs in'the fummer-time, efpecially to warm cold joints or finews 
troubled with the palfy or cramp, and to comfort or ftrengthen the parts. It is much 
commended againft the ftitch or pains in the fide coming of wind, if the place be 
fomented warm with the decottion — in wine, and the herb a after a boil- 
ing, be laid warm thereto. ” 
gw 0005 ACE Soh. 
Description. WOOD-SAGE rifeth up with fquare hoary ftalks. two feet. 
high at the leaft, with two leaves at every joint, fomewhat like other fage leaves, but 
fmaller, fofter, whiter, and rounder, and a little dented about the edges, and fmelling 
fomewhat ftronger ; at the tops of the ftalks and branches ftand the flowers ona flen- 
der long fpike, turning. themfelves.all one way when they blow, and are of a pale and 
whitith colour, {maller than fage, but hooded and gaping like it; the feed is black- 
ith and round, four ufually feen ina husk together ; the root is long and ftringy, 
with divers fibres thereat ; andi it abideth many years, 
Piace. It groweth i in woods, and by wood-fides, as alfo i in divers fields and by- 
Janes in Great Britain. 
Time. It flowereth in June, vay and Augutt. 
GoveRNMENT AND VIRTUES. The herb is under Venus. The decoction of 
wood- fage provoketh urine ; ; it alfo provoketh fweat, digefteth humours, and dif- 
cuffeth fwellingsand nodes i in the fleth. The decoction of the green herb made with 
wine is a fafe and fure remedy for thofe who by falls, bruifes, or blows, doubt fome 
vein to be inwardly broken, to difperfe and void the congealed blood, and to confo- _ 
lidate the vein ; it is alfo good for fuch as are. inwardly or outwardly burften, the 
drink ufed inwardly, and the. ‘herb applied outwardly; the fame, ufed in the fame’ 
manner, is found to be a fure remedy for the palfy. The juice of the herb, or the 
powder thereéf dried, is good for moift ulcers and fores in the legs or other parts, - ‘sk Ss 
bg ore heal more {peedily. Italfo cureth green wounds, 
