78 ; THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
like. The mucilage of the seed made with 
Rosewater, and a little sugar-candy put 
thereto, is very good in all hot agues and 
burning fevers, and other inflammations, to 
cool the thirst, and lenify the dryness and 
roughness of the tongue and throat. It 
helps also hoarseness of the voice, and dis- 
eases of the breast and lungs, caused by 
heat, or sharp salt humours, and the pleu- 
risy also. The mucilage of the seed made 
with plantain water, whereunto the yolk of 
an egg or two, and a little populeon are 
put, is a most safe and sure remedy to ease 
the sharpness, pricking, and pains of the 
hemorrhoids or piles, if it be laid on a 
cloth, and bound thereto. It helps all in- 
flammations in any part of the body, and 
the pains that come thereby, as the head- 
ache and megrims, and all hot imposthumes, 
swellings, or breaking out of the skin, as 
blains, wheals, pushes, purples, and the 
like; as also the joints of those that are out 
or joint, the pains of the gout and sciatica, 
the burstings of young children, and the 
swellings of the navel, applied with oil of 
roses and vinegar. It is also good to heal 
the nipples and sore breasts of women, 
being often applied thereunto. The juice 
of the herb with a little honey put into the 
ears helps the running of them, and the 
worms breeding in them:' The same also 
mixed with hog’s grease, and applied to cor- 
rupt and filthy ulcers, cleanses them and 
heals them. 
FLUXWEED. 
Descript.] Iv rises up with a round up- 
right hard stalk, four or five feet high, 
spread into sundry branches, whereon grow 
_ Many greyish green leaves, very finely cut 
_ and severed into a number of short and 
almost round parts. The flowers are very 
3 small and yellow, growing spike fashion, 
_ after which come small long pods, with 
There is another sort, differing in noth- 
ing, save only it has somewhat broad leaves; 
they have a strong evil savour, being © 
smelled unto, and are of a drying taste. 
Place.| They flower wild in the fields 
by hedge-sides and highways, and among 
rubbish and other places. 
Time.| They flower and seed quickly — 
after, namely in June and July. 
Government and virtues.| This herb is 
Saturnine also. Both the herb and seed of © 
Fluxweed is of excellent use to stay the flux 
or lask of the belly, being drank in water 
wherein gads of steel heated have been 
often quenched; and is no less effectual — 
for the same purpose than plantain or com- _ 
frey, and to restrain any other flux of blood | 
in man or woman, as also to consolidate — 
bones broken or out of joint. The juice — 
thereof drank in wine, or the decoction of 
the herb drank, doth kill the worms in the © 
stomach or belly, or the worms that grow 
in putrid and filthy ulcers; and made into 
a salve doth quickly heal all old sores, how 
foul or malignant soever they be. The © 
distilled water of the herb works the same — 
effects, although somewhat weaker, yet it 
is a fair medicine, and more acceptable to’ 
be taken. It is called Fluxweed because it — 
cures the flux, and for its uniting broken — 
bones, &c. Paracelsus extols it to the skies. . 
It is fitting that syrup, ointment, and plais- 
ters of it were kept in your houses. | 
FLOWER-DE-LUCE. 
Ir is so well known, being nourished up | 
in most gardens, that I shall not need to 
spend time in writing a description thereof. 
Time.] The flaggy kinds thereof have — 
the most physical uses; the dwarf kinds © 
thereof flower in April, the greater sorts 0 _ 
May. 
Government and virtues.] The herb is — 
Lunar. The j goer or decoction of the ees | 
