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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
wheals, sun-burn, morphew, &c. The juice 
dropped into the ears, eases the noise in 
them, and takes away the pricking and 
shooting pains therein: The same, or the 
distilled water, assuages hot and swelling 
imposthumes, burnings, and scaldings by 
fire or water; as also all other hot tumours 
and inflammations, or breakings-out, of 
heat, being bathed often with wet cloths 
dipped therein: The said juice made into 
a liniment with ceruse, and oil of roses, and 
anointed therewith, cleanses foul rotten 
ulcers, and stays spreading or creeping 
ulcers, and running scabs or sores in chil- 
dren’s heads; and helps to stay the hair 
from falling off the head. The said oint- 
ment, or the herb applied to the fundament, 
opens the piles, and eases their pains; and 
being mixed with goats’ tallow, helps the 
gout. The juice is very effectual to cleanse 
fistulas, and to heal them up safely; or the 
herb itself bruised and applied with a little 
salt. It is likewise also effectual to heal any 
green wound; if it be bruised and bound 
thereto for three days, you shall need no 
other medicine to heal it further. A poul- 
tice made hereof with mallows, and boiled 
in wine and wheat bran and bean flower, 
and some oil put thereto, and applied warm 
to any bruised sinews, tendon, or muscle, 
doth in a very short time restore them to 
their strength, taking away the pains of the 
bruises, and dissolves the congealed blood 
coming of blows, or falls from high places. 
The juice of Pellitory of the Wall clari- 
fied and boiled in a syrup with honey, and a 
spoonful of it drank every morning by such 
as are subject to the dropsy; if continuing 
that course, though but once a week, if ever 
_ they have the dropsy, let them come but 
_ to me, and I will cure them gratis. 
PENNYROYAL. 
___ Pewnwyroyat is so well known unto all, 
- There is a greater kind than the ordinary 
sort found wild with us, which so abides 
being brought into gardens, and differs not 
from it, but only in the largeness of the 
leaves and stalks, in rising higher, and not 
creeping upon the ground so much. The 
flowers whereof are purple, growing in run- 
dles about the stalks like the other. 
Place.| The first, which is common in 
gardens, grows also in many moist and 
watery places of this land. 
The second is found wild in effect in 
divers places by the highways from London 
to Colchester, and thereabouts, more abun- 
dantly than in any other countries, and is 
also planted in their gardens in Essex. 
Time.] They flower in the latter end of 
Summer, about August. 
Government and virtues.] The herb is 
under Venus. Dioscorides saith, that 
Pennyroyal makes thin tough phlegm, 
warms the coldness of any part whereto it 
is applied, and digests raw or corrupt mat- 
ter; Being boiled and drank, it provokes 
women’s courses, and expels the dead child 
and after-birth, and stays the disposition 
to vomit being taken in water and vinegaT 
mingled together. And being mingled with 
honey and salt, it voids phlegm out of the 
lungs, and purges melancholy by the stool. 
Drank with wine, it helps such as are bitten 
and stung with venomous beasts, and ap- 
plied to the nostrils with vinegar, revives 
those that are fainting and swooning. Be- 
ing dried and burnt, it strengthens the 
gums. It is helpful to those that are trou- 
bled with the gout, being applied of itself 
to the place until it was red; and applied 
in a plaister, it takes away spots or marks 
in the face; applied with salt, it profits 
those that are splenetic, or livergrown. The 
decoction doth help the itch, if washed 
therewith. The green herb bruised and put 
into vinegar, cleanses foul ulcers, and takes 
away the marks of bruises and blows about 
the eyes, and all discolourings of the face — 
