46  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
S90 SOLOMON: SEAL, OC 
- Deserrption. THE: common Solomon’s. feal rifeth up with a round 'ftalk 
about half.a.yard- high, bowing or bending down, fet with fingle leaves one above 
another, fomewhat large, and like the leaves of the lilly-convalley, or May-lilly, with 
an eyeof bluifh upon the green, with fome ribs therein, and more yellowifh under- 
neath. - At the foot of every leaf, almoft from the bottom up to the top of the ftalk, 
come forth {mall long white-and hollow, pendulous flowers, fomewhat like the 
flowers of May-lilly, but ending in five long points, for the moft part two together 
at theend.of a Jong footftalk, and fometimes but one, and fometimes alfo two ftalks 
with flowers at the foot of a leaf, which are without any fcent.at all, and ftand all on 
one fide of the ftalk. After they are pat, come in their places {mall round berries, 
green at firft; and blackifh green, tending to bluenefs, when they. are ripe, where- 
in lie {mall white hard and ftoney feed. The root is of the thicknefs of one’s finger 
or thumb, white and knobbed in fome places, witha flat-circle reprefenting a feal, 
whence it took the name, lying along under the furfaceof the earth, and not Aiea 
very low, but with many fibres underneath. 
*Pracz. ‘Ivis frequent in divers places of Kent, Effex, and other counties. 
Time. Ie flowereth about “ah or the beginning g of June ; and the root abideth 
and fhooteth anew every year. — | | 
~ GovERNMENT AND Virtus. Saturn owns the plant. The root of Solomon’s 
feal is found by experience to be available j in wounds, hurts, and outward fores, to 
heal and clofe up the lips of thofe that are green, and. to dry up and reftrain the flux 
of humours to thofe that are cold: itis good to fay yomitings and bleedings where- 
foever, a8 likewife all Sixes in man or woman; dlfo to knit any joint, which by 
aweaknefs ufeth to be often out of place, or will not ftay in long when it Js fet 5, alfo 
toknit and join broken bones in ‘any part of the body, the. roots being bruifed and 
. appli lied to the'place; it hath been found by late experience, | that the decoétion of 
¢ TOO in wine, or the bruifed 1 root E put in wing or or othér drink, and after a night's 
fitained off, and drunk, ‘hath ‘felieved both man and beaft \ whofe bones 
fen broken by any occafion, which is the méft affured refuge of help to peo- 
He OF ee countric s that’ they ¢ can have? it is no lefs effectual to help ruptures and 
€ ‘ion in wine, Or the powder in*broth or drink, , being inwardly 
taken alata ippli 
‘haa. d'to the place. ‘The fame is 8 “Avail: iin for eae or 
outward’ bruifes, falls, or Blows, ‘both to difpel ‘the congedled blood, ‘and'‘to take 
away the pains and the black-and-blue marks that abide after the burt. "Th 1€ a3 
alfo, or the diftilled : ne! er OF wie whole cat fed to the Face or other part “Of the 
Jett ‘fkin, 
