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cleanse the stomach of gross and tough 
phlegm, and choler therein; it helps the 
jaundice and the dropsy, evacuating those 
humours both upwards and downwards; 
and because it somewhat hurts the stomach, 
is not to be taken without honey and spike- 
nard. The same being drank, doth ease the 
pains and torments of the belly and sides, 
the shaking of agues, the diseases of the 
liver and spleen, the worms of the belly, 
the stone in the reins, convulsions and 
cramps that come of old humours; it also 
helps those whose seed passes from them 
unawares: It is a remedy against the 
bitings and stingings of venomous crea- 
tures, being boiled in water and vinegar 
and drank. Boiled in water and drank, it 
provokes urine, helps the cholic, brings 
down women’s courses; and made up into 
a pessary with honey, and put up into the 
body, draws forth the dead child. It is 
much commended against the cough, to 
expectorate rough phlegm; it much eases 
pains in the head, and procures sleep; 
being put into the nostrils it procures 
sneezing, and thereby purges the head of 
phlegm. The juice of the root applied to 
the piles or hemorrhoids, gives much ease. 
The decoction of the roots gargled in the 
mouth, eases the tooth-ache, and helps the 
stinking breath. Oil called Oleum Irinum, 
if it be rightly made of the great broad 
flag Flower-de-luce (and not of the great 
_bulbus blue Flower-de-luce, as is used by 
Some apothecaries) and roots of the same 
of the flaggy kinds, is very effectual to 
warm and comfort all cold joints and sin- 
_ ews, as also the gout and sciatica, and moli- 
fies, dissolves and consumes tumours and 
swellings in any part of the body, as also 
: ot the matrix; it helps the cramp, or con- 
-vulsions of the sinews. The head and 
temples anointed therewith, helps the 
-catarrh or thin rheum distilled from thence; 
and used upon the breast or stomach, helps 
to extenuate the cold tough phlegm; it helps 
also the pains and noise in the ears, and 
the stench of the nostrils. The root itself, 
either green or in powder, helps to cleanse, 
heal, and incarnate wounds, and to cover 
the naked bones with flesh again, that 
ulcers have made bare; and is also very 
good to cleanse and heal up fistulas and 
cankers that are hard to be cured. 
FLUELLIN, OR LLUELLIN. 
Descript.]| Ir shoots forth many long 
branches partly lying upon the ground, 
and partly standing upright, set with al- 
most red leaves, yet a little pointed, and 
sometimes more long than round, without 
order thereon, somewhat hairy, and of an 
evil greenish white colour; at the joints all 
along the stalks, and with the leaves come 
forth small flowers, one at a place, upon 
a very small short foot-stalk, gaping some- 
what like snap-dragons, or rather like toad- 
flax, with the upper jaw of a yellow colour, 
and the lower of a purplish, with a small 
heel or spur behind; after which come forth 
small round heads, containing small black 
seed. The root is small and thready, dying 
every year, and raises itself again of its 
own sowing. 
There is another sort of Lluellin which 
has longer branches wholly trailing upon 
the ground, two or three feet long, and 
somewhat more thin,set with leaves thereon, 
upon small foot stalks. Theleaves are 
a little larger, and somewhat round, and 
cornered sometimes in some places on the 
edges; but the lower part of them being 
the broadest, hath on each side a small 
point, making it seem as if they were ears, 
sometimes hairy, but not hoary, and of a 
better green colour than the former. The 
flowers come forth like the former, but the 
colours therein are more white than yellow, _ 
and the purple not so far. It is a large — 
flower, and so are the seed and neo er . 
