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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
hereof very effectual for the comforting 
the heart, and expelling sadness and melan- 
choly. : 
WALL FLOWERS, OR WINTER 
GILLI-FLOWERS. 
Tue garden kind are so well known that 
they need no description. 
Descript.| The common single Wall- 
flowers, which grow wild abroad, have sun- 
dry small, long, narrow, dark green leaves, 
set without order upon small round, whitish, 
woody stalks, which bear at the tops divers 
single yellow flowers one above another, 
every one bearing four leaves a-piece, and 
of a very sweet scent: after which come 
long pods, containing a reddish seed. The 
roots are white, hard and thready. 
Place.| It grows upon church walls, and 
old walls of many houses, and other stone 
walls in divers places; The other sort in 
gardens only. 
Time.| All the single kinds do flower 
many times in the end of Autumn; and if 
the Winter be mild, all the Winter long, 
but especially in the months of February, 
March, and April, and until the heat of the 
spring do spend them. But the double 
kinds continue not flowering in that manner 
all the year long, although they flower very 
early sometimes, and in some places very 
late. ‘ ' 
Government and virtues.]| The Moon 
rules them, Galen, in his seventh book of 
simple medicines, saith, That the yellow 
Wall-flowers work more powerfully than 
any of the other kinds, and are therefore of 
more use in physic. It cleanses the blood, 
and fretteth the liver and reins from ob- 
structions, provokes women’s courses, ex- 
_ pels the secundine, and the dead child; 
__ helps the hardness and pain of the mother, 
and of spleen also; stays inflammations and 
| - swellings, comforts and strengthens any 
weak part, or out of joint; helps to cleanse 
t ee 
and to cleanse the filthy ulcers in the mouth, 
or any other part, and is a singular rem- 
edy for the gout, and all aches and pains in 
the joints and sinews. A conserve made of 
the flowers, is used for a remedy both for 
the apoplexy and palsy. 
THE WALNUT TREE. 
Ir is so well known, that it needs no de- 
scription. 
Time.] It blossoms early before the 
leaves come forth, and the fruit is ripe in 
September. 
Government and virtues.| This is also a 
plant of the Sun. Let the fruit of it be 
gathered accordingly, which you shall find 
to be of most virtues while they are green, 
before they have shells. The bark of the 
Tree doth bind and dry very much, and the 
leaves are much of the same temperature: 
but the leaves when they are older, are 
heating and drying in the second degree,and 
harder of digestion than when they are 
fresh, which, by reason of their sweetness, 
are more pleasing, and better digesting in 
the stomach; and taken with sweet wine, 
they move the belly downwards, but being 
old, they. grieve the stomach; and in hot 
bodies cause the choler to abound, and the 
head-ache, and are an enemy to those that 
have the cough; but are less hurtful to 
those that have a colder stomach, and are 
said to kill the broad worms in the belly oF 
stomach. If they be taken with onions, salt, 
and honey, they help the biting of a mad 
dog, or the venom or infectious poison of 
any beast, &c. Caias Pompeius found in the 
treasury of Mithridates, king of Pontus, 
when he was overthrown, a scroll of his ow? 
hand writing, containing a medicine against 
any poison or infection; which is this; Take 
two dry walnuts, and as many good figs, and 
twenty leaves of rue, bruised and beaten 
together with two or three corns of salt 
and twenty juniper berries, which take 
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