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that the very lye made of the ashes of the 
herb being drank, cures the disease. It pro- 
vokes the terms, helps the fits of the mother, 
strengthens the stomach exceedingly, and 
expels the wind. Indeed there is scarce a 
better remedy for wind in any part of the 
body, or the cholic, than the chymical oil 
drawn from the berries; such country peo- 
ple as know not how to draw the chymical 
oil, may content themselves by eating ten 
or a dozen of the ripe berries every morning 
fasting. They are admirably good for a 
cough, shortness of breath, and consump- 
tion, pains in the belly, ruptures, cramps, 
and convulsions. They give safe and speedy 
delivery to women with child, they 
strengthen the brain exceedingly, help the 
memory, and fortify the sight by strength- 
ening the optic nerves; are excellently good 
in all sorts of agues; help the gout and 
Sciatica, and strengthen the limbs of the 
body. The ashes of the wood is a speedy 
remedy to such as have the scurvy, to rub 
their gums with. The berries stay all fluxes, 
help the hemorrhoids or piles, and kill 
worms in children. A lye made of the ashes 
of the wood, and the body bathed with it, 
cures the itch, scabs, and leprosy. The 
berries break the stone, procure appetite 
when it is lost, and are excellently good for 
all palsies, and falling-sickness. 
KIDNEYWORT, OR WALL PENNYROYAL, 
OR WALL PENNYWORT. 
Descript.] Ir has many thick, flat, and 
round leaves growing from the root, every 
one having a long footstalk, fastened under- 
neath, about the middle of it, and a little 
unevenly weaved sometimes about the edges 
of a pale green colour, and somewhat yellow 
on the upper side like a saucer; from among 
which arise one or more tender, smooth, 
hollow stalks half a foot high, with two or 
three small leaves thereon, usually not 
Tound as those below, but somewhat long, 
; oe. - 
and divided at the edges: the tops are some- 
what divided into long branches, bearing a 
number of flowers, set round about a long 
spike one above another, which are hollow 
and like a little bell of a whitish green col- 
our, after which come small heads, contain- 
ing very small brownish seed, which falling 
on the ground, will plentifully spring up be- 
fore Winter, if it have moisture. The root 
is round and most usually smooth, greyish 
without, and white within, having small | 
fibres at the head of the root, and bottom 
of the stalk. 
Place.| It grows very plentifully in 
many places of this land, but especially in 
all the west parts thereof, upon stone and 
mud walls, upon rocks also, and in stony 
places upon the ground, at the bottom of old 
trees, and sometimes on the bodies of them 
that are decayed and rotten. 
Time.| It usually flowers in the begin- 
ning of May, and the seed ripening quickly 
after, sheds itself; so that about the end of 
May, usually the stalks and leaves are 
withered, dry, and gone until September, 
then the leaves spring up again, and so 
abide all Winter. 
Government and virtues.] Venus chal- 
lenges the herb under Libra. The juice or 
the distilled water being drank, is very ef- 
fectual for all inflammations and unnatural 
heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach, a hot 
liver, or the bowels: the herb, juice, or dis- 
tilled water thereof, outwardly applied, 
heals pimples, St. Anthony’s fire, and other 
outward heats. The said juice or water 
helps to heal sore kidneys, torn or fretted 
by the stone, or exulcerated within; it also 
provokes urine, is available for the dropsy, 
and helps to break the stone. Being used 
as a bath, or made into an ointment, it cools — 
the painful piles or hemorrhoidal veins. It _ 
is no less effectual to give ease to pains of 
the gout, the sciatica, and helps the kernels 
or knots in the neck or throat, called. the 
ae evil; healing Jebel chilb! 
