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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
not rough or pricking: The flowers are 
white, growing at the top of the stalks one 
above another, which being past, follow 
small round pods, wherein are contained 
round seed somewhat blackish. The root 
stringy and thready, perishes every year 
after it hath given seed, and raises itself 
again of its own sowing. The plant, or 
any part thereof, being bruised, smells of 
garlic, but more pleasantly, and tastes 
somewhat hot and sharp, almost like unto 
rocket. 
Place.| It grows under walls, sed by 
hedge-sides, and path-ways in fields in 
many places. 
Time.] It flowers in June, vulys and 
August. 
Government and virtues.] It is hats of 
Mercury. This is eaten by many country 
' people as sauce to their salt fish, and helps 
well to digest the crudities and other cor- 
rupt humours engendered thereby. It 
warms also the stomach, and causes diges- 
tion. The juice thereof boiled with honey 
is accounted to be as good as hedge mus- 
tard for the cough, to cut and expectorate 
the tough phlegm. The seed bruised and 
boiled in wine, is a singularly good remedy 
for the wind colic, or the stone, being drank 
warm: It is also given to women troubled 
with the mother, both to drink, and the 
seed put into a cloth, and applied while it 
is warm, is of singularly good use. The 
leaves also, or the seed boiled, is good to be 
used in clysters to ease the pains of the 
stone. The green leaves are held to be good 
to heal the ulcers in the legs. 
WINTER AND SUMMER SAVORY. 
_ Born these are so well known (being 
_ entertained as constant inhabitants in our 
_ gardens) that they need no description. 
_ Governmentandvirtues.] Mercury claims 
dominion over this herb, neither is there 
better remedy against the colic and iliac 
passion, than this herb; keep it dry by you 
all the year, if you love yourself and your 
ease, and it is a hundred pounds to a penny 
if you do not; keep it dry, make conserves 
and syrups of it for your use, and withal, 
take notice that the Summer kind is the 
best. They are both of them hot and dry, 
especially the Summer kind, which is both 
sharp and quick in taste, expelling wind in 
the stomach and bowels, and is a present 
help for the rising of the mother procured 
by wind; provokes urine and women’s 
courses, and is much commended for women 
with child to take inwardly, and to smell 
often unto. It cures tough phlegm in the 
chest and lungs, and helps to expectorate 
it the more easily; quickens the dull spirits 
in the lethargy, the juice thereof being 
snuffed up into the nostrils. The juice 
dropped into the eyes, clears a dull sight, if 
it proceed of thin cold humours distilled 
from the brain. The juice heated with oil of 
Roses, and dropped into the ears, eases 
them of the noise and singing in them, and 
of deafness also. Outwardly applied with 
wheat flour, in manner of a poultice, it 
gives ease to the sciatica and palsied mem- 
bers, heating and warming them, and takes 
away their pains. It also takes away the 
pain that comes by stinging of bees, 
wasps, &c. 
SAVINE. 
To describe a plant so well known is 
needless, jt being nursed up almost in every 
garden, and abides green all the Winter. 
Government and virtues.] It is under the 
dominion of Mars, being hot and dry in 
the third degree, and being of exceeding 
clean parts, is of a very digesting quality. 
If you dry the herb into powder, and mix 
| it with honey, it is an excellent remedy to 
cleanse old filthy ulcers and fistulas; but 
| it hinders them from healing. The same is 
J excellently good to break carbuncles and 
