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the stomach, and is a certain remedy (saith 
Tragus) to dissolve congealed or clotted 
blood in the body, or that which is clotted 
by bruises, falls, &c. The juice or distilled 
water thereof being drank, and the bruised 
leaves laid to the place, being taken either 
in meat or drink, it is good to help to pro- 
_ voke urine, or expel the stone in the kid- 
neys, to send down women’s courses, and 
to help the pleurisy and pricking of the 
sides, 
The wild Chervil bruised and applied, 
dissolves swellings in any part, or the 
marks of congealed blood by bruises or 
blows, in a little space. 
SWEET CHERVIL, OR SWEET CICELY. 
Descript.| Tis grows very like the 
great hemlock, having large spread leaves 
cut into divers parts, but of a fresher green 
colour than the hemlock, tasting as sweet 
as the anniseed. The stalks rise up a yard 
high, or better, being creased or hollow, 
having leaves at the joints, but lesser; and 
at the tops of the branched stalks, umbels 
or tufts of white flowers; after which comes 
long crested black shining seed, pointed at 
both ends, tasting quick, yet sweet and 
pleasant. The root is great and white, 
growing deep in the ground, and spreading 
sundry long branches therein, in taste and 
smell stronger than the leaves or seeds, and 
continuing many years. 
_ Place.] This grows in gardens. 
Government and virtues.] These are all 
three of them of the nature of Jupiter, and 
under his dominion. This whole plant, 
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besides its pleasantness in sallads, has its 
physical virtue. The root boiled, and eaten 
with oil and vinegar, (or without oil) do 
much please and warm old and cold sto- 
Machs oppressed with wind or phlegm, or 
those that have the phthisic or consump- 
_Hon of the lungs. The same drank with 
_ Wine is a preservation from the plague. It 
provokes ails cin, Vg aa ! 
after-birth, procures an appetite to meat, 
and expels wind. The juice is good to 
heal the ulcers of the head and face; the 
candied root hereof are held as effectual as 
Angelica, to preserve from infection in the 
time of a plague, and to warm and com- 
fort a cold weak stomach. It is so harm- 
less, you cannot use it amiss. 
CHESNUT TREE. 
Ir were as needless to describe a tree so 
commonly known as to tell a man he had 
gotten a mouth; therefore take the govern- 
ment and virtues of them thus: 
The tree is abundantly under the do- 
minion of Jupiter, and therefore the fruit 
must needs breed good blood, and yield 
commendable nourishment to the body; 
yet if eaten over-much, they make the 
blood thick, procure head ach, and bind 
the body; the inner skin, that covers the 
nut, is of so binding a quality, that a 
scruple of it being taken by a man, or ten 
grains by a child, soon stops any flux what- 
soever: The whole nut being dried and 
beaten into powder, and a dram taken at 
a time, is a good remedy to stop the terms 
in women. If you dry Chestnuts, (only the 
kernels I mean) both the barks being taken 
away, beat them into powder, and make 
the powder up into an electuary with honey, 
so have you an admirable remedy for the 
cough and spitting of blood. 
EARTH CHESNUTS. 
Tuey are called Earth-nuts, Earth 
Chesnuts, Ground Nuts, Ciper-nuts, and in 
Sussex Pig-nuts. A description of them | 
were needless, for every child knows them, 
Government and virtues.] They are some- 
thing hot and dry in quality, under the 
dominion of Venus, they provoke lust 
exceedingly, and stir up to those sports she _ 
is mistress of ; the seed is excellent good to | 
