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danger of poison, and infection that day it is 
taken. The juice of the other green husks 
boiled with honey is an excellent gargle for 
sore mouths, or the heat and inflammations 
in the throat and stomach. The kernels, 
when they grow old, are more oily, and 
therefore not fit to be eaten, but are then 
used to heal the wounds of the sinews, 
gangrenes, and carbuncles. The said ker- 
nels being burned, are then very astrin- 
gent, and will stay lasks and women’s 
courses, being taken in red wine, and stay 
the falling of the hair, and make it fair, 
being anointed with oil and wine. The 
green husks will do the like, being used in 
the same manner. The kernels beaten with 
rue and wine, being applied, helps the 
quinsy ; and bruised with some honey, and 
applied to the ears, eases the pains and in- 
flammations of them. A piece of the green 
husks put into a hollow tooth, eases the 
pain. The catkins hereof, taken before 
they fall off, dried and given a dram 
thereof in powder with white wine, won- 
derfully helps those that are troubled with 
the rising of the mother. The oil that is 
pressed out of the kernels, is very profit- 
able, taken inwardly like oil of almonds, 
to help the cholic, and to expel wind very 
effectually; an ounce or two thereof may 
be taken at any time. The young green 
nuts taken before they be half ripe, and 
preserved with sugar, are of good use for 
those that have weak stomachs, or defluc-. 
tions thereon. The distilled water of the 
green husks, before they be half ripe, is 
of excellent use to cool the heat of agues, 
being drank an ounce or two at a time: 
as also to resist the infection of the 
plague, if some of the same be also applied 
to the sores thereof. The same also cools 
the heat of green wounds and old ulcers, 
and heals them, being bathed therewith. 
_ The distilled water of the green husks 
_ being ripe, when they are shelled from the 
7 nutes and drank with a little vinegar, is | the b 
good for the place, so as before the taking 
thereof a vein be opened. The said water 
is very good against the quinsy, being 
gargled and bathed therewith, and won- 
derfully helps deafness, the noise, and 
other pains in the ears. The distilled 
water of the young green leaves in the end 
of May, performs a singular cure on foul 
running ulcers and sores, to be bathed, 
with wet cloths or spunges applied to them 
every morning. 
WOLD, WELD, OR DYER’S WEED. 
Tue common kind grows bushing with 
many leaves, long, narrow and flat upon 
the ground; of a dark blueish green colour, 
somewhat like unto Woad, but nothing so 
large, a little crumpled, as it were round- 
pointed, which do so abide the first year; 
and the next spring from among them, rise 
up divers round stalks, two or three feet 
high, beset with many such like leaves 
thereon, but smaller, and shooting forth 
small branches, which with the stalks carry 
many small yellow flowers, in a long spiked 
head at the top of them, where afterwards 
come the seed, which is small and black, 
inclosed in heads that are divided at the 
tops into four parts. The root is long, white 
and thick, abiding the Winter. The whole 
herb changes to be yellow, after it hath 
been in flower a while. 
Place.] It grows every where by the 
way sides, in moist grounds, as well as dry, 
in corners of fields and bye-lanes, and some- 
times all over the field. In Sussex and Kent 
they call it Green Weed. 
Time.| It flowers about June. 
Government and virtues.] Matthiolus 
saith, that the root hereof cures tough 
plilegm, digests raw phlegm, thin gross — 
humours, dissolves hard tumours, and opens _ 
obstructions. Some do highly commend it~ ; 
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