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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
blood, and the spleen, or an hot choleric 
stomach; to refresh and comfort the faint- 
ing spirits, and quench thirst: They are 
good also for other inflammations; yet it is 
not amiss to refrain from them in a fever, 
lest by their putrifying in the stomach they 
increase the fits. The leaves and roots boiled 
in wine and water, and drank, do likewise 
cool the liver and blood, and assuage all 
inflammations in the reins and bladder, pro- 
voke urine, and allay the heat and sharpness 
thereof. The same also being drank stays 
the bloody flux and women’s courses, and 
helps the swelling of the spleen. The 
water of the Berries carefully distilled, is a 
sovereign remedy and cordial in the panting 
and beating of the heart, and is good for the 
yellow jaundice. The juice dropped into 
foul ulcers, or they washed therewith, or 
the decoction of the herb and root, doth 
wonderfully cleanse and help to cure them. 
Lotions and gargles for sore mouths, or 
ulcers therein, or in the privy parts or else- 
where, are made with the leaves and roots 
thereof; which is also good to fasten loose 
teeth, and to heal spungy foul gums. It 
helps also to stay catarrhs, or defluctions 
of rheum in the mouth, throat, teeth, or 
eyes. The juice or water is singularly good 
for hot and red inflamed eyes, if dropped 
into them, or they bathed therewith. It is 
also of excellent property for all pushes, 
wheals, and other breakings forth of hot 
and sharp humours in the face and hands, 
_ and other parts of the body, to bathe them 
therewith, and to take away any redness in 
the face, or spots, or other deformities in 
the skin, and to make it clear and smooth. 
Some use this medicine: Take so many 
Strawberries as you shall think fitting, and 
put them into a distillatory, or body of glass 
fit for them, which being well closed, set it 
in a bed of horse dung for your use. It is 
an excellent water for hot inflamed eyes, 
| and to take away a film or skin that begins 
__ to grow over them, and for such other de- 
fects in them as may be helped by any out- 
ward medicine. 
SUCCORY, OR CHICORY. 
Descript.]| Tue garden Succory hath 
longer and narrower leaves than the En- 
dive, and more cut in or torn on the edges, 
and the root abides many years. It bears 
also blue flowers like Endive, and the seed 
is hardly distinguished from the seed of the 
smooth or ordinary Endive. 
The wild Succory hath divers long leaves 
lying on the ground, very much cut in or 
torn on the edges, on both sides, even to the 
middle rib, ending in a point; sometimes 
it hath a rib down to the middle of the 
leaves, from among which rises up a hard, 
round, woody stalk, spreading into many 
branches, set with smaller and less divided 
leaves on them up to the tops, where stand 
the flowers, which are like the garden kind, 
and the seed is also (only take notice that 
the flowers of the garden kind are gone in 
on a sunny day, they being so cold, that 
they are not able to endure the beams of the 
sun, and therefore more delight in the 
shade) the root is white, but more hard and 
woody than the garden kind. The whole 
plant is exceedingly bitter. 
Place.| This grows in many places of 
our land in waste untilled and barren fields. 
The other only in gardens. 
Government and virtues.] It is an herb 
of Jupiter. Garden Succory, as it is more 
dry and less cold than Endive, so it opens 
more. An handful of the leaves, or roots 
boiled in wine or water, and a draught 
thereof drank fasting, drives forth choleric 
and phlegmatic humours, opens obstruc- 
tions of the liver, gall and spleen; helps 
the yellow jaundice, the heat of the reins; 
and of the urine; the dropsy also; and those 
that have an evil disposition in their bodies; 
by reason of long sickness, evil diet, &c- 
which the Greeks call Cachexia. A decoc- 
tion thereof made with wine, and drank, is — 
