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point at it, wherein is contained seed as 
small as dust. 
Place.| It grows seldom in fields, but 
frequent in the woods northwards, viz. in 
Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Scotland. 
Time.| It flowers about June and July. 
Government and virtues.| Winter-green 
is under the dominion of Saturn, and is a 
singularly good wound herb, and an espe- 
cial remedy for healing green wounds 
speedily, the green leaves being bruised and 
applied, or the juice of them. A salve 
made of the green herb stamped, or the 
juice boiled with hog’s lard, or with salad 
oil and wax, and some turpentine added 
to it, is a sovereign salve, and highly ex- 
tolled by the Germans, who use it to heal 
all manner of wounds and sores. The herb 
boiled in wine and water, and given to drink 
to them that have any inward ulcers in 
their kidneys, or neck of the bladder, doth 
wonderfully help them. It stays all fluxes, 
as the lask, bloody fluxes, women’s courses, 
and bleeding of wounds, and takes away 
any inflammations rising upon pains of the 
heart; it is no less helpful for foul ulcers 
hard to be cured; as also for cankers or 
fistulas. The distilled water of the herb 
effectually performs the same things. 
GROUNDSEL. 
Descript.]| Our common Groundsel has 
@ round green and somewhat brownish 
Stalk, spreading toward the top into 
branches, set with long and somewhat nar- 
Tow green leaves, cut in on the edges, some- 
what like the oak-leaves, but less, and round 
at the end. At the tops of the branches 
Stand many small green heads, out of which 
§tTow many small, yellow threads or thumbs, 
which are the flowers, and continue many 
days blown in that manner, before it pass 
away into Down, and with the seed is car- 
tied away in the wind. The root is small 
and thready, and soon perishes, and as soon 
_Tises —- of its Sitiecdsia 0 80 that it 
hess" ae = the peti: 
may be seen many months in the year, both 
green and in flower, and seed; for it will 
spring and seed twice in a year at least, 
if it be suffered in a garden. 
Place.| This grows almost every where, 
as well on tops of walls, as at the foot, 
amongst rubbish and untilled grounds, but 
especially in gardens. 
Time.| It flowers, as was said before, 
almost every month throughout the year. 
Government and virtues.] This herb is 
Venus’s mistress-piece, and is as gallant 
and universal a medicine for all diseases 
coming of heat, in what part of the body 
soever they be, as the sun shines upon; it is 
very safe and friendly to the body of man; 
yet causes vomiting if the stomach be af- 
flicted; if not, purging: and it doth it with 
| more gentleness than can be expected; it is 
moist, and something cold withal, thereby 
causing expulsion, and repressing the heat 
caused by the motion of the internal parts 
in purges and vomits. Lay by our learned 
receipts; take so much Sena, so much 
Scammony, so much Colocynthis, so much 
infusion of Crocus Metallorum, &c. this 
herb alone preserved in a syrup, in a dis- 
tilled water, or in an ointment, shall do_ 
the deed for you in all hot diseases, and, 
shall do it, 1, Safely; 2, Speedily. 
The decoction of this herb (saith Diosco-_ 
rides) made with wine, and drank, helps 
the pains of the stomach, proceeding of 
choler, (which it may well do by a vomit) | 
as daily experience shews. The juice there- 
of taken in drink, or the decoction of it in 
ale, gently performs the same. It is good © 
against the jaundice and falling sickness, — 
being taken in wine; as also against dif- 
ficulty of making water. It provokes — 
urine, expels gravel in the reins or kidneys; _ 
a dram thereof given in oxymel, after some 
walking or stirring of the body. ‘It helps 
also the sciatica, griping of the belly, the 
