a7  CULPEPER’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, 
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rs f) WILD THYME, or MOTHER of THYME,” ae 4 
| THE wild thyme ‘aller is fo well known, that it am’ no defeription. 
' Puace. It may be found incommons and other barren places Hrislea tie 
nation. ~ hee i 
~GovERNMENT AND Vinrves, This is likewife under the dominion of Venus, 
inbadill under the fign Aries, and therefore chiefly appropriated to the head: it pro 
voketh urine, and eafeth the griping pains of the belly, cramps, ruptures, ° cand i ins 
flammations of the liver. If you make a vinegar of the herb, and anoint the head ‘ 
with it, itwill foon eafe the pain thereof. It is excellent good to be giveneither ina * 
- frenzy or lethargy, although they are two contrary difeafes. It helps the fpitting of 
blood, coughing, and vomiting’; it comforts and -ftrengthens the head, i sears 
reins, and womb ; expels wind, and breaks the ftone. ) 
P's TORMENTIL, or SEPTFOIL. 
Descriprioy. THIS hath many reddifh, lender, weak, branches, Be Src m3 
the root, lying upon the ground, rather leaning than ftanding upright, with many s 
fhort leaves that ftand clofer to the ftalks than cinqfoildoth, (which this is very like,) 
with the footitalk encompafling the branches in feveral places ; but thofe that grow _ 
- next to the ground are fet upon long footftalks, each whereof are like the leaves of 
~ “cindfoil, but fomewhat longer and fmaller, and dented about the edges, many of © 
Tet divided i into five leaves only, but moft of them into feven, whence it is alfo ~ 
called feptfoil; yet fome may have fix, and fome eight, according to the fertility of 
the foil. At the tops of the branches ftand divers finall yellow flowers, confifting © 
of five leaves, like thofe of cingfoil, but {maller. The root is finaller than biftort, 
_fomewhat thick, but blacker without, and not fo red within, yet fometimes alittle” 
crooked, having many blackifh fibres, - Ed 
“Brace. Itgroweth as well in woods and fhadowy places as in the open countty, 2 
abot Beliehorders of fields i Se ag places of a a ead almott i in ree 2% 
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_ ~ GovERNMENT anv Virtuzs. This is an Hens GE thie Site eT orechntte noft 
excellent to ftay all kinds of fluxes of blood or humours i in‘man or woman, whether 
at nofe, mouth, belly, or any wound in the veins or elfewhere. The juice of theherb A 
or root, taken in drink, not only refifteth all poifon or venom’ of any creature, ‘but i , 
of the _ itfelf, and Deftilentia a 
