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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
annuls the virtues of the other, quite un- 
doing what that doth. 
Time.| One or other of them may be 
found in flower from the beginning of April 
to the latter end of August. 
Government and virtues.| They are hot 
and moist in operation, under the dominion 
of Dame Venus, and provoke lust exceed- 
ingly, which, they say, the dried and with- 
ered roots do restrain. They are held to 
kill worms in children; as also, being 
bruised and applied to the place, to heal 
the king’s evil. 
ONIONS. 
Tuey are so well known, that I need not 
spend time about writing a description of 
them. 
Government and virtues.] Mars: owns 
‘them, and they have gotten this quality, to 
draw any corruption to them, for if you 
peel one, and lay it upon a dunghill, you 
shall find it rotten in half a day, by drawing 
putrefaction to it; then being bruised and 
applied to a plague sore, it is very probable 
it will do the like. Onions are flatulent, or 
windy; yet they do somewhat provoke 
appetite, increase thirst, ease the belly and 
bowels, provoke women’s courses, help the 
biting of a mad dog, and of other venomous 
creatures, to be used with honey and rue, 
increase sperm, especially the seed of them. 
They also kill worms in children if they 
drink the water fasting wherein they have 
been steeped all night. Being roasted 
under the embers, and eaten with honey or 
sugar and oil, they much conduce to help 
an inveterate cough, and expectorate the 
_ tough phlegm. The juice being snuffed 
up into the nostrils, purges the head, and 
helps the lethargy, (yet the often eating 
_ them is said to procure pains in the head.) 
_ It hath been held by divers country people 
a great preservative against infection, to 
eat Onions fasting with bread and salt: As 
eee s geott One Melley, flies 
the place with good treacle, and after to 
roast it well under the embers, which, after 
taking away the outermost skin thereof, 
being beaten together, is a sovereign salve 
for either plague or sores, or any other 
putrefied ulcer. The juice of Onions is 
good for either scalding or burning by fire, 
water, or gunpowder, and used with vine- 
gar, takes away all blemishes, spots and 
marks in the skin: and dropped in the ears, 
eases the pains and noise of them. Applied 
also with figs beaten together, helps to ripen 
and break imposthumes, and other sores. 
Leeks are as like them in quality, as the 
pome-water is like an apple: They are 4 
remedy against a surfeit of mushrooms, 
being baked under the embers and taken; 
and being boiled and applied very warm, 
help the piles. In other things they have 
the same property as the Onions, although 
not so effectual. 
ORPINE. 
Descript.]| Common Orpine rises up 
with divers rough brittle stalks, thick set 
with fat and fleshy leaves, without any 
order, and little or nothing dented about 
the edges, of a green colour: The flowers 
are white, or whitish, growing in tufts, after 
which come small chaffy husks, with seeds 
like dust in them. The roots are divers 
thick, round, white tuberous clogs; and the 
plant grows not so big in some places as in 
others where it is found. 
-Place.| It is frequent in almost every 
county of this land, and is cherished in 
gardens with us, where it grows greatet 
than that which is wild, and grows im 
shadowy sides of fields and woods. 
Time.| It flowers about July, 
seed is ripe in August. 
and the 
Government and virtues.] The Moon — 
owns the herb, and he that knows but her 
exaltaration, knows what I say is trué- 
Orpine is seldom used in inward medicines 
Bac us, although Tragus saith ame 
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