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ge «=490CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Government anv Virturse This is one of Venus’s herbs. ‘It is exceeding 
good to heal green wounds, or any ulcers, impofthumes, or bleedings, inwardly. Ic 
wonderfully helps thofe that have any tumours in any part of their bodies, for it re- 
_ preffeth and diffipateth the humours, if the decoCtion or juice thereof be taken, or 
- the powder in drink, and the juice ufed outwardly ; ; for there is not found any herb _ 
that can give fuch prefent help either to man or bea(t when the difeafe falleth upon” 
7 the lungs or throat, and to heal up allthe putrid malignant ulcers i in the mouth,. 
_ throat, and privities, by gargling or wafhing with the decoction of the leaves and ~~ 
soot, made in water, anda little honey put thereto. It helpeth to {tay fluxes of blood 
either by the mouth, urine, or ftool, and lasks of the belly, the ulceration of the kid= 
neys alfo, and the pains in the bowels, and the gonorrhea or running of the reins, 
being boiled in wine or water, and drunk : the fame alfo is no lefs powerful to help 
any ruptures or burftings, ufed both inwardly and outwardly ; and it is effectual 1 in 
binding any: Sept heating, lai he and healing. 
a Ae SARACENS CONSOUND, oz SARACENS WOUND-WORT*. — 
Desca Prion. THIS groweth very hig gh, fometimes with brownifh ftalks, 
and other times with green and hollow, to a man’s height, having many long and. ; 
narrow Sreen leaves {nipped about the edges, fomewhat like thofe of the peach-tree,, 
| of willow leaves, but not of fuch a white green colour: the tops of the ftalks are ~ 
+. furnifhed with many pale yellow ftar-like flowers ftanding in green heads, which, 
_ ‘when they are fallen, and the feed ripe, (which i is fomewhat long, {mall, and of a 
‘yellowith brown colour, wrapped i in down,) is therewith carried away by the wind. 
eS he root is compofed of many ftrings or fibres, fet together at a head, which peri 
ss: tiot in winter, though the ftalks dry away. The tafte of this herb is ftrong and une 
= -Pleafant, and fo isthe fell, _ 
_ -Pracz. Jt groweth in moift and wet grounds by the fide of woods, and fometimes. 
“ae if the moift places of the fhady groves, as alfo by the water fide. 2 
: ? _ Ture. It flowereth gasey about the wie of en and the feed i 2 foon ripe, a 
ye seaintt uckcamsiisadiiiet and it isa great ingredient inthe, 
Swifs arquebufade-water, Its balfamic and diuretic so a Rae eg ee ee 
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