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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Nenupharis, Nymphe. Of Water-lilies. 
They are cold and dry, and stop lust: I 
never dived so deep to find‘what virtue the 
roots have. 
Ononidis, Arreste Bovis, §&c. Of Cam- 
mock, or Rest-harrow, so called because it 
makes oxen stand still when they are 
ploughing. The roots are hot and dry in the 
third degree; it breaks the stone (viz. the 
bark of it.) The root itself, according to 
Pliny, helps the falling-sickness; according 
to Matthiolus, helps ruptures: you may 
take half a dram at a time. 
Ostrutij. Masterwort, given once before 
under the name of Imperitoria. But I have 
something else to do than to write one thing 
twice as they did. 
Pastinate, Sative, and silvestris. Garden 
and Wild Parsnips. They are of a tem- 
perate quality, inclining something to heat: 
The Garden Parsnips provoke lust, and 
nourish as much and more too, than any 
root ordinarily eaten: the wild are more 
physical, being cutting, cleansing, and 
opening: they resist the bitings of veno- 
mous beasts, ease pains and stitches in the 
sides, and are a sovereign remedy against 
the wind cholic. 
Pentafylli. Of Cingfyl, commonly called 
Five-leaved, or Five-finger’d grass: the 
root is very drying, but moderately hot: It 
is admirable against all fluxes, and stops 
blood flowing from any part of the body: 
it helps infirmities of the liver and lungs, 
helps putrified ulcers of the mouth, the root 
boiled in vinegar is good against the 
shingles, and appeases the rage of any 
fretting sores. You may safely take half 
a dram at a time in any convenient liquor. 
Petacite. Of Butter-bur. The roots are 
_ hot and dry in the second degree, they are 
_ exceeding good in violent and pestilential 
fevers, they provoke the menses, expel poi- 
son, and kill worms. 
_ Peucedani,Feniculi porcini. Of Sulphur- 
wort, Hogs-fennel, or Hore-strange. It is 
very good applied to the navels of children 
that stick out, and ruptures: held in the 
mouth, it is a present remedy for the fits of 
the mother: being taken inwardly, it gives 
speedy deliverance to women in travail, and 
brings away the placenta. 
Peeonice, maris, femelle. Of Peony male 
and female. They are meanly hot, but more 
drying. The root helps women not suffi- 
ciently purged after travail, it provokes the 
menses, and helps pains in the belly, as also 
in the reins and bladder, falling sickness, 
and convulsions in children, being either 
taken inwardly, or hung about their necks. 
You may take half a dram at a time, and 
less for children. 
Phu, Valerine, majoris, minoris. Vale- 
rian, or Setwal, greater and lesser. They 
are temperately hot, the greater provokes 
urine and the menses, helps the stranguary, 
stays rheums in the head, and takes away 
the pricking pains thereof. The lesser re- 
sist poison, assuages the swelling of the 
testicles, coming either through wind or 
cold, helps cold taken after sweating of 
labour, wind cholic: outwardly it draws out 
thorns, and cures both wounds and ulcers. 
Pimpinelle, &c. Of Burnet. It doth this 
good, to bring forth a gallant physical herb. 
Plantaginis. Of Plantane. The root is 
something dryer than the leaf, but not 80 
cold, it opens stoppages of the liver, helps 
the jaundice, and ulcers of the reins and 
bladder. A little bit of the root being eaten, 
instantly stays pains in the head, even to 
admiration. 
Polypodij. Of Polypodium, or Fern of 
the Oak. It is a gallant though gentle 
purger of melancholy; Also in the opinion 
of Mesue (as famous a physician as evel 
I read for a Galenist,) it dries up supet 
-fluous humours, takes away swellings from 
the hands, feet, knees, and joints, stitches 
and pains in the sides, infirmities of the 
spleen, rickets; correct it with a few Annis 
‘seeds, or Fennel seeds, or a little ginget, 
