342 CULPEPER’s. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
_ GovERNMENT anp Viarugs.  Thefe herbs are both of the Moon,. ‘hele faxi- 
: Wesco are as hot as pepper, and Tragus: faith, by his: experience, they are >more 
-wholefome. They have the fame properties that the parfleys have; but, in provokes 
‘ ing urine, and eafing the wind and cholic, are much more effeCtual. The roots or 
= feed, being ufed either in powder, or in decoction, or any other way, help:to break 
and void the ftone inthe kidneys, to digeft cold, vifcous, and tough, phlegm inthe 
foniach, and.area moft efpecial remedy againft all, kindof venom. -Caftoreumy 
being | boiled i in the.diftilled water hereof, is good to be given to thofe that are Bes 
troubled with cramps and convulfions. Some make the feed into comfits, (asthey — 
do carraway feed,) which is effectual to all the purpofes aforefaid. “The juice of the ~ 
herb, dropped into the mpoft grievous wounds of the:-head, drieth up'their moifturé 
and healeth them quickly, Some women ufe the dittilled water; to take away {pots 
or freckles in the face or any parts of the body: and to drink the fame, fweetened 
with fugar, for all the purpofes aforefaid. 
SCABIOUS. 
reehien. THE common field fcabious groweth up with many hairy, foft, 
whitifh-green, leaves, fome whereof are but very little if at all jagged on the edges, 
_ others very much rent and torn on the fides, and have threads in them, which, upon 
the breaking, may be plainly feen; from among which rife up divers hairy green 
a Sons ‘three or four feet high, with fuch like hairy green leaves on them, but more 
“s _ feeply and finely divided, branched forth a little. “At the tops, whieh are naked and } 
~ bare of leaves for a good {pace, ftand round heads of flowers, of a pale bluifhcolour, 
fet together in a head, the outermoft whereof are larger than the inward, with many 
_ threads alfo i in the middle, fomewhat flat at the top, as the head with {feed is like- 
& wife, The root is great, white, and thick, Raid 3 down eee in the ground, and 
‘Many years. 
- There 2 a oy field fcabious, wget in nv nothing from the former, but 
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& a “They flower in ie iy | a July, PP, abide Roweing nab Be 
in — and the’ feed i8 ripeint! e Mean time. i ‘ 
