gz, CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
Mf TREACLE-MUSTARD. 
Descearticw IT. rifeth: up. witha hard:round ftalk about a foot high, Boe ine: 
to fome branches, having divers foft green leaves fomewhat Jong, and narrow fet, 
thereon, waved, but-not cutin on the.edges,- broadeft towards the ends; and-fome- 
what round-pointed ;. the. flowers are white.that. grow-at,the tops of the ‘branches, 
fpike-fafhion, one above another: after-which.come large round -pouches partediin. 
the middle with a furrow, having one blackifh brown feed on either fide, fomewhat, 
fharp.in tafte, and fmebling of garlic, -efpecially in the fields where it is natural; but’ 
not fo much in gardens: theroots are {mall and.thready, perithing everysyeats 9 
BLACK-THORN, on SLOE-BUSH. 
IT is fo well known, thar'it needeth’ no defeription. 
Prace. It groweth in every‘country, inthe hedges and borders of fields. 
Time. It flowereth in April, and fometimes i in. March, but ripeneth after ‘all. 
other plumbs whatfoever, and ‘is ‘not fit ‘to be eaten until the autunin froft have mel 
_ lowed it. ’ 
GovERNMENT AND Vitec. Allthe parts of the floe-buth are binding, cooling, 
and drying, and effectual to ftay-the bleeding at the nofe and mouth, or any other 
place ; the lafk of the belly, or ftomach, or the bloody flux, and to eafe the pains in’ 
the fides or bowels, by drinking the decoétion of the bark of the roots, or more ufual- 
ly the decoétion of the-berries, either freth or-dried.. The confervé is alfo of very 
much ufe to the purpofés aforefaid; but .the-diftilled water. of the. flowers, firk. 
fteeped in fack for a-night, and drawn therefrom. by the heat of 4! dath, is a moft 
Certain remedy;. tried and approved, .to-eafe. all: manner of gnawing inthe ftomach, 
Seat howto any-griping pains in any:of them, todrink-a: fmall-quantity’’ 
when theextremity of pain is upon:them. | The leaves.alfo are good.to make lotionsy 
gle.and.wath the.mouth.and.throat, wherein are-fwellings; foresy or ‘kernelsy 
ant soi: i defiuinns of.rheum to the:eyes. or: other parts, as alfe-to”coobthé: 
and.inflammations in them, and to eafe.hot pains: of. the head, by bathing) the 
“temples therewith... The fimple diftilled.water. of the - flowers is-very’ 
effedtuat for the faid: purpofes, and the condenfate juice of the floes. —" 
water of en alfe- for thefame-purpofes. — i i 
at THOROUGH- 
