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places of this land, by the water-sides; as 
also by small water courses, and in divers 
other places. 
Time.| It flowers and seeds in the end 
of Summer. 
Government and virtues.| This is an herb 
of Venus, therefore maintains the parts of 
the body she rules, remedies the diseases of 
the parts that are under her signs Taurus 
and Libra. Mugwort is with good: success 
put among other herbs that are boiled for 
women to apply the hot decoction to draw 
down their courses, to help the delivery of 
the birth, and expel the after-birth. As also 
for the obstructions and inflammations of 
the mother. It breaks the stone, and opens 
the urinary. passages where they are 
stopped. The juice thereof made up with 
myrrh, and put under as a pessary, works 
the same effects, and so does the root also. 
Being made up with hog’s grease into an 
ointment, it takes away wens and hard knots 
and kernels that grow about the neck and 
throat, and eases the pains about the neck 
_ more effectually, if some field daisies be put 
with it. The herb itself being fresh, or the 
Juice thereof taken, is a special remedy 
upon the overmuch taking of opium. Three 
drams of the powder of the dried leaves 
taken in wine, is a speedy and the best cer- 
tain help for the sciatica. A decoction 
thereof made with camomile and agrimony, 
and the place bathed therewith while it is 
warm, takes away the pains of the sinews, 
and the cramp. 
THE MULBERRY-TREE. 
Tus is so well known where it grows, 
that it needs no description. 
Time.| It bears fruit in the months of 
July and August. 
Government and virtues.] anes eae 
the Tree, therefore are its effects variable 
with such like leaves, but less, so that no’ 
on all sides of the stalk, 
a branches for the most Lowrie 
_ ie Mulbersy wot ee es ina 
sweetness and slippery moisture, opening 
the body, and the unripe binding it, es- 
pecially when they are dried, and then they 
are good to stay fluxes, lasks, and the abun- 
dance of women’s courses. The bark of 
the root kills the broad worms in the body. 
The juice or the syrup made of the juice of 
the berries, helps all the inflammations or 
sores in the mouth, or throat, and palate of 
the mouth when it is fallen down. The juice 
of the leaves is a remedy against the biting 
of serpents, and for those that have taken 
aconite. The leaves beaten with vinegar, 
are good to lay on any place that is burnt 
with fire. A decoction made of the bark 
and leaves is good to wash the mouth and 
teeth when they ache. If the root be a little 
slit or cut, and a small hole made in the 
ground next thereunto, in the Harvest-time, 
it will give out a certain juice, which being 
hardened the next day, is of good use to help 
the tooth-ache, to dissolve knots, and purge 
the belly. The leaves of Mulberries are 
said to stay bleeding at the mouth or nose 
or the bleeding of the piles, or of a wound, | 
being bound unto the places. A branch of 
the tree taken when the Moon is at the full, 
and bound to the wrists of a woman’s arm, 
whose courses come down too much, doth © 
stay them in a short space. 
MULLEIN. 
Descript.]| Common White Mullein has 
many fair, large, woody white leaves, lying | 
next the ground, somewhat larger than — 
broad, pointed at the end, and as it were | 
dented about the edges. The stalk rises up 
to be four or five feet high, covered over 
stalk can be seen for the multitude of leaves 
thereon up to the flowers, which come 
