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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
helps to expel worms in the stomach and 
belly, and to ease the pains in the head, or 
megrim, and the griping pains in the 
bowels. It is profitable for those that are 
troubled with the stone in the kidneys, both 
to ease the pains by provoking urine, and 
also to expel gravel and the stone engen- 
dered therein, and hath been found very 
effectual to expel windiness, and other 
humours, which cause the strangling of the 
mother. The seed hereof is very effectual 
to expel the tooth ache, and the ashes of the 
burnt herb to cleanse the gums, and make 
the teeth white. The herb bruised and ap- 
plied to the place grieved with the king’s 
evil, helps it in nine or ten days effectually. 
Monardus saith, it is a counter poison 
against the biting of any venomous crea- 
ture, the herb also being outwardly applied 
to the hurt place. The distilled water is 
often given with some sugar before the fit 
of an ague, to lessen it, and take it away in 
three or four times using. If the distilled 
feces of the herb, having been bruised be- 
fore the distillation, and not distilled dry, 
be set in warm dung for fourteen days, and 
afterwards be hung in a bag in a wine 
cellar, the liquor that distills therefrom is 
singularly good to use for cramps, aches, 
the gout and sciatica, and to heal itches, 
scabs, and running ulcers, cankers, and all 
foul sores whatsoever. The juice is also 
good for all the said griefs, and likewise to 
kill lice in children’s heads. The green 
herb bruised and applied to any green 
wounds, cures any fresh wound or cut what- 
‘soever: and the juice put into old sores, 
both cleanses and heals them. There is also 
_ made hereof a singularly good salve to help 
imposthumes, hard tumours, and other 
_ 8wellings by blows and falls. 
THE TAMARISK TREE. 
_Inis so well known in the place where it | 
' grows, that it needs no 
eee Te flowers about the end of May, 
or June, and the seed is ripe and blown 
away in the beginning of September. 
Government and virtues.| A gallant Sa- 
turnine herb it is. The root, leaves, young 
branches, or bark boiled in wine, and drank, 
stays the bleeding of the hemorrhodical — 
veins, the spitting of blood, the too abound- — 
ing of women’s courses, the jaundice, the | 
cholic, and the biting of all venomous ser- 
pents, except the asp; and outwardly ap- 
plied, is very powerful against the hardness 
of the spleen, and the tooth-ache, pains in 
the ears, red and watering eyes. The de- 
coction, with some honey put thereto, is 
good to stay gangrenes and fretting ulcers, 
and to wash those that are subject to nits 
and lice. Alpinus and Veslingius affirm, 
That the Egyptians do with good success 
use the wood of it to cure the French dis- 
ease, as others do with lignum vite or 
guiacum ; and give it also to those who have 
the leprosy, scabs, ulcers, or the like. Its 
ashes doth quickly heal blisters raised by 
burnings or scaldings. It helps the dropsy, 
arising from the hardness of the spleen, 
and therefore to drink out of cups made of 
the wood is good for splenetic persons. It 
is also helpful for melancholy, and the 
black jaundice that arise thereof. 
GARDEN TANSY. 
Garven Tansy is so well Cease that 
it needs no description. 
Time.]| It. flowers in June and July. 
Government and virtues.| Dame Venus 
was minded to pleasure women with child 
by this herb, for there grows not an herb; 
fitter for their use than this is; it is just a 
though it were cut out for the purpose. This 
herb bruised and applied to the navel, stays 
miscarriages; I know no herb like it for 
that use: Boiled in ordinary beer, and the 
decoction drank, doth the like; and if her 
womb be not as she would have it, this de _ 
that desire children love this herb, it is thei 
