4 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
have their usual courses, or the whites flow- 
ing down too abundantly. It helps sore eyes. 
Of the leaves infused or boiled in oil, om- 
phacine or unripe olives, set in the sun four 
certain days, or the green leaves sufficiently 
boiled, in the said oil, is made an excellent 
green balsam, not only for green and fresh 
wounds, but also for old and inveterate 
ulcers, especially if a little fine clear tur- 
pentine be dissolved therein. It also stayeth 
and refresheth all inflammations that arise 
upon pains by hurts and wounds. 
What parts of the body are under each 
planet and sign, and also what disease may 
be found in my astrological judgment of 
diseases; and for the internal work of na- 
ture in the body of man; as vital, animal, 
. natural and procreative spirits of man; the 
apprehension, judgment, memory; the ex- 
ternal senses, viz. Seeing, hearing, smelling, 
tasting and feeling; the virtuous, attractive, 
retentive, digestive, expulsive, &c. under 
the dominior. of what planets they are, may 
be found in my Ephemeris for the year 
1651. In both which you shall find the chaff 
of authors blown away by the fame of Dr. 
Reason, and nothing but rational truths left 
for the ingenious to feed upon. 
Lastly. To avoid blotting paper with one 
thing many times, and also to ease your 
purses in the price of the book, and withal 
to make you studious in physic; you have 
at the latter end of the book, the way of 
preserving all herbs either in juice, con- 
serve, oil, ointment or plaster, electuary, 
pills, or troches. 
AGRIMONY. 
Descript.| Tuts has divers long leaves 
_ (some greater, some smaller) set upon a 
stalk, all of them dented about the edges, 
green above, and greyish underneath, and 
a little hairy withal. Among which ariseth 
_ up usually but one strong, round, hairy, 
hess stalk, two or three feet high, with 
At the top hereof grow many small yellow a 
flowers, one above another, in long spikes; 
after which come rough heads of seed, 
hanging downwards, which will cleave to 
and stick upon garments, or any thing that 
shall rub against them. The knot is black, 
long, and somewhat woody, abiding many ~ 
years, and shooting afresh every Spring; 
which root, though small, hath a reasonable , 
good scent. 
Place.| It grows upon banks, near the 
sides of hedges. 
Time.| It flowers in July and August, 
the seed being ripe shortly after. 
Government and virtues.] It is an herb — 
under Jupiter, and the sign Cancer; -and ‘ 
strengthens those parts under the planet 
and sign, and removes diseases in them by 
sympathy, and those under Saturn, Mars 
and Mercury by antipathy, if they happen 
in any part of the body governed by Jupi- 
ter, or under the signs Cancer, Sagitary or _ 
Pisces, and therefore must needs be good — 
for the gout, either used outwardly in oil or © 
ointment, or inwardly in an electuary, or 
syrup, or concerted juice; for which see the 
latter end of this book. 
It is of a cleansing and cutting faculty, 
without any manifest heat, moderately dry- 
ing and binding. It opens and cleanses the 
liver, helps the jaundice, and is very bene- _ 
ficial to the bowels, healing all inward — 
wounds, bruises, hurts, and other distem- — 
pers. ‘The decoction of the herb made with _ 
wine, and drank, is good against the biting — 
and stinging of serpents, and helps them 
that make foul, troubled or bloody water. — 
This herb also helps the cholic, cleanses _ 
the breast, and rids away the cough. A 
draught of the decoction taken warm be- — 
fore the fit, first removes, and in time rids 
away the tertian or quartan agues. The — 
leaves and seeds taken in wine, stays the © 
bloody flux; outwardly applied, being © 
stamped with old swines’ grease, it helpeth — 
| old sores, cancers, and inveterate ulcers, 
