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humours. The same is also effectual for 
the piles or hemorrhoids, if they be washed 
or bathed therewith, or with the distilled 
water of the herb and roots. It is found 
also helpful to dry up any sharp rheum 
that distills from the head into the eyes, 
causing redness, pain, waterings, itching, 
or the like, if a little prepared tutia, or 
white amber, be used with the distilled 
water thereof. And here is enough, only 
remember the Sun challengeth this herb. 
TURNSOLE, OR HELIOTROPIUM. 
Descript.] Tux greater Turnsole rises 
with one upright stalk, about a foot high, or 
more, dividing itself almost from the bot- 
tom, into divers small branches, of a hoary 
colour; at each joint of the stalk and 
branches grow small broad leaves, some- 
what white and hairy. At the tops of the 
stalks and branches stand small white 
flowers, consisting of four, and sometimes 
five small leaves, set in order one above 
another, upon a small crooked spike, which 
turns inwards like a bowed finger, opening 
by degrees as the flowers blow open; after 
which in their place come forth cornered 
seed, four for the most part standing to- 
gether; the root is small and thready, per- 
ishing every year, and the seed shedding 
every year, raises it again the next Spring. 
Place.] It grows in gardens, and flowers 
and seeds with us, notwithstanding it is not 
natural to this land, but to Italy, Spain, and 
France, where it grows plentifully. 
Government and virtues.] It is an herb 
of the Sun, and a good one too. Dioscorides 
saith, That a good handful of this, which is 
called the Great Turnsole, boiled in water, 
and drank, purges both choler and phlegm; 
and boiled with cummin, helps the stone in 
the reins, kidneys, or bladder, provokes 
urine and women’s courses, and causes an 
_ €asy and speedy delivery in child-birth. 
7 The leayes bruised and applied to places 
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pained with the gout, or that have been out 
of joint, and newly set, and full of pain, do 
give much ease: the seed and juice of the 
leaves also being rubbed with a little salt 
upon warts and wens, and other kernels in 
the face, eye-lids, or any other part of the 
body, will, by often using, take them away. 
MEADOW TREFOIL, OR HONEYSUCKLES. 
Ir is so well known, especially by the 
name of Honeysuckles, white and red, that 
I need not describe them. 
Place.] They grow almost every where 
in this land. 
Government and virtues.] Mercury hath 
dominion over the common sort. Dodo- 
neus saith, The leaves and flowers are good 
to ease the griping pains of the gout, the | 
herb being boiled and used in a clyster. If 
the herb be made into a poultice, and ap- 
plied to inflammations, it will ease them. 
The juice dropped in the eyes, is a familiar 
medicine, with many country people, to 
take away the pin and web (as they call it) 
in the eyes; it also allays the heat and blood 
shooting of them. Country people do also 
in many places drink the juice thereof 
against the biting of an adder; and having 
boiled the herb in water, they first wash the 
place with the decoction, and then lay some 
of the herb also to the hurt place. The herb 
also boiled in swine’s grease, and so made 
into an ointment, is good to apply to the 
biting of any venomous creature. The herb 
also bruised and heated between tiles, and 
applied hot to the share, causes them to 
make water who had it stopt before. It is 
held likewise to be good for wounds, and to 
take away seed. The decoction of the herb 
and flowers, with the seed and root, taken 
for some time, helps women that are — 
troubled with the whites. The seed and — 
flowers boiled in water, and after made into 
a poultice with some oil, and applied, helps 
