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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
upon the stone walls of churches, houses, 
&c. and sometimes to grow alone of itself, 
though but seldom. 
Time.] It flowers not until July, and 
the berries are not ripe till Christmas, when 
they have felt Winter frosts. 
Government and virtues.| It is under the 
dominion of Saturn. A pugil of the flowers, 
which may be about a dram, (saith Dios- 
corides) drank twice a day in red wine, 
helps the lask, and bloody flux. It is an 
enemy to the nerves and sinews, being much 
taken inwardly, but very helpful to them, 
being outwardly applied. Pliny saith, the 
yellow berries are good against the jaun- 
dice; and taken before one be set to drink 
hard, preserves from drunkenness, and 
helps those that spit blood; and that the 
white berries being taken inwardly, or ap- 
plied outwardly, kills the worms in the 
belly. The berries are a singular remedy 
to prevent the plague, as also to free them 
from it that have got it, by drinking the 
berries thereof made into a powder, for two 
or three days together. They being taken 
in wine, do certainly help to break the stone, 
provoke urine, and women’s courses. The 
fresh leaves of Ivy, boiled in vinegar, and 
applied warm to the sides of those that are 
troubled with the spleen, ache, or stich in 
the sides, do give much ease: The same ap- 
plied with some Rosewater, and oil of 
Roses, to the temples and forehead, eases 
the head-ache, though it be of long continu- 
ance. The fresh leaves boiled in wine, and 
old filthy ulcers hard to be cured washed 
therewith, do wonderfully help to cleanse 
them. It also quickly heals green wounds, 
and is effectual to heal all burnings and 
scaldings, and all kinds of exulcerations 
coming thereby, or by salt phlegm or hu- 
mours in other parts of the body. The juice 
_ of the berries or leaves snuffed up into the 
nose, purges the head and brain of thin: 
_ rheum that makes defluctions into the eyes 
and nose, and curing the ulcers and stench 
so powerful a remedy against the drops}: _ 
therein; the same dropped into the ears, | 
helps the old and running sores of them; | 
those that are troubled with the spleen, shall _ 
find much ease by continual drinking out of © 
a cup made of Ivy, so as the drink may 
stand some small time therein before it be — 
drank. Cato saith, That wine put into such © 
a cup, will soak through it, by reason of the — 
antipathy that is between them. ) 
There seems to be a very great antipathy — 
between wine and Ivy; for if one hath got — 
a surfeit by drinking of wine, his speediest — 
cure is to drink a draught of the same wine 
wherein a handful of Ivy leaves, being first - 
bruised, have been boiled. / 
JUNIPER BUSH. 
For to give a description of a’ bush s0 
commonly known is needless. 
Place.| They grow plentifully in divers — 
woods in Kent, Warney Common near 
Brentwood in Essex, upon Finchley Com- / 
mon without Highgate; hard by the New 
found Wells near Dulwich, upon a Com-— 
mon between Mitcham and Croydon, in the 
Highgate near Amersham in Buckingham — 
shire, and many other places. : 
Time.| The berries are not ripe the first — . 
year, but continue green two Summers and 
one Winter before they are ripe; at which — 
time they are all of a black colour, and 
therefore you shall always find upon the — 
bush green berries; the berries are sd 
about the fall of the leaf. 
Government and virtues.] This admirs- 
ble solar shrub is scarce to be paralleled - } 
for its virtues. The berries are hot in the | | 
third degree, and dry but in the first, being _ 
a most admirable counter-poison, and 8 
great a resister of the pestilence, as a0) _ 
grows; they are excellent good against the | 
bitings of venomous beasts, they provoke © 
urine exceedingly, and therefore are very _ 
available to dysuries and stranguries. It 8 _ 
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