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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
fasting, in a decoction made with the same 
root and water. 
Acori, Veri, Perigrini vulgaris, §c. See 
Calamus Aromaticus. I shall not speak con- 
cerning the several sorts of it, one of which 
is Water-flag, or Flower-de-luce, which is 
hot and dry in the second degree, binds, 
strengthens, stops fluxes of the belly, and 
immoderate flowing of the menses, a dram 
being taken in red wine every morning. 
Allium. Garlic. It is hot and dry in the 
fourth degree, breeds corrupt blood, yet is 
an enemy to all poisons, and such as are 
bitten by cold venomous beasts, viz. Adders, 
Toads, Spiders, &c. it provokes urine, and 
expels wind. 
Alcanne. Of privet. See the leaves. 
Althee. Of Marsh mallows, are meanly 
hot, of a digesting, softening nature, ease 
pains, help bloody fluxes, the stone, and 
gravel; being bruised and boiled in milk; 
and the milk drank, is a good remedy for 
gripings of the belly, and the bloody flux. If 
a fever accompany the disease, boil a hand- 
ful of common mallow leaves with a hand- 
ful of these roots. 
Angelice. Of Angelica: is hot and dry 
in the third degree, strengthens the heart, 
and is good against pestilence and poison, 
half a dram taken in the morning fasting. 
Anchuse. Of Alkanet; cold and dry, 
binding, good for old ulcers. 
Anthore. A foreign root, the counter- 
poison for Monkshood, it is an admirable 
remedy for the wind cholic, and resists 
poison. 
Apii. Of smallage. See the barks. 
Aristolochie. Of birthwort; of which are 
three sorts, long, round, and climing: All 
hot and dry in the third degree. The long, 
being drank in wine, brings away both birth 
_ and after-birth, and whatsoever a careless 
midwife hath left behind. Dioscorides, 
Se” alen. The round, being drank with wine, 
_ helps (besides the former) stuffings of the 
vulsions; both of them resist poison. I 
never read any use of the climing birth- 
wort. 
Artanite, Cyclaminis, §c. Or Sowbread; 
hot and dry in the third degree, a most 
violent purge, dangerous; outwardly ap- 
plied to the place, it profits much in the 
bitings of venomous beasts, also being hung 
about women in labour, it causes speedy 
deliverance. See the Herb. 
Arundinis, Vallatorie, and Saccharine. 
Of common reeds and sugar reeds. The 
roots of common reeds applied to the place 
draw out thorns, and ease sprains; the 
ashes of them mixed with vinegar, take 
surf, or dandrif off from the head, and pre- 
vent the falling off of the hair, they are 
hot and dry in the second degree, according 
to Galen. I never read any virtue of the 
root of sugar cane. 
Ari, $c. Of Cuckow-points, or Wake- 
Robin, hot and dry in the third degree. I 
know no great good they do inwardly taken, 
unless to play the rogue withal, or make 
sport: outwardly applied, they take off 
scurf, morphew, or freckles from the face, 
clear the skin, and ease the pains of the 
gout. 
Asclepiadis, vincetoxici. Of Swallow 
wort, hot and dry, good against poison, and 
gripings of the belly, as also against the 
bitings of mad dogs, taken inwardly. 
Asari. Of Asarabacca: the roots are 4 
safer purge than the leaves, and not so vio- 
lent, they purge by vomit, stool, and urine; 
they are profitable for such as have agues, 
dropsies, stoppings of the liver, or splee®, 
green sickness. 
Asparagi. Of Asparagus, or sperage 
they are temperate in quality, opening, they 
provoke urine, and cleanse the reins and 
bladder, being boiled in white wine, and the 
wine drank. 
Asphodeli, Haste Regie fem. Of Kings 
2 Spear, or Female Asphodel. I know 7° — 
