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helps such as are given to much sighing, 
easeth pains in the belly, provokes urine, 
being taken inwardly: you may take a dram 
of it at a time in powder. Outwardly in 
oils or salves, it helps sinews that are 
shrunk; limbs out of joint, all aches and 
swellings coming of a cold cause. 
Angelica. Is hot and dry in the third de- 
gree; opens, digests, makes thin, strength- 
ens the heart, help fluxes, and loathsome- 
ness of meat. It is an enemy to poison and 
pestilence, provokes menses, and brings 
away the placanta. You may take a dram 
of it at a time in powder. 
Anagallis, mas, femina. Pimpernel, male 
and female. They are something hot and 
dry, and of such a drying quality that they 
draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh, 
amend the sight, cleanse ulcers, help in- 
firmities of the liver and reins. Galen. 
Anethum. Dill. Is hot and dry in the 
Second degree. It stays vomiting, eases 
hiccoughs, assuages swellings, provokes 
urine, helps such as are troubled with 
fits of the mother, and digests raw humours. 
Apium. Smallage; So it is commonly 
used ; but indeed all Parsley is called by the 
name of Apium, of which this is one kind. 
It is something hotter and dryer than Pars- 
ley, and more efficacious; it opens stoppings 
of the liver, and spleen, cleanses the blood, 
provokes the menses, helps a cold stomach 
to digest its meat, and is good against the 
yellow jaundice. Both Smallage and 
Clevers, may be well used in pottage in the 
morning instead of herbs. 
Aparine. Goose-grass, or Clevers: They 
are meanly hot and dry, cleansing, help 
the bitings of venomous beasts, keep men’s 
bodies from growing too fat, help the yel- 
low jaundice, stay bleeding, fluxes, and 
help green wounds. Dioscorides, Pliny, 
Galen, Tragus. 
Aspergula odorata. Wosd-rot: Cheers 
the heart, makes men merry, helps melan- 
| — So cree beet) 
od 
Aquilegia. Columbines:help sore throats, 
are of a drying, binding quality. 
Argentina. Silver-weed, or Wild Tansy; 
cold and dry almost in the third degree; 
stops lasks, fluxes, and the menses, good 
against ulcers, the stone, and inward 
wounds: easeth gripings in the belly, fas- 
tens loose teeth: outwardly it takes away 
freckles, morphew, and sunburning, it takes 
away inflammations, and bound to the wrists 
stops the violence of the fits of the ague. 
Artanita. Sow-bread: hot and dry in ~ 
the third degree, it is a dangerous purge: 
outwardly in ointments it takes away 
freckles, sunburning, and the marks which 
the small pox leaves behind them: danger- 
ous for pregnant women. 
Aristolochia, longa, rotunda. Birth-wort 
long and round. See the roots. 
Artemisia. Mugwort: is hot and dry in 
the second degree: binding: an herb ap- 
propriated to the female sex; it brings down 
the menses, brings away both birth and 
placenta, eases pains in the matrix. You 
may take a dram at a time. 
Asparagus. See the roots. 
Asarum, §c. Asarabacca: hot and dry; 
provokes vomiting and urine, and are good 
for dropsies. They are corrected with mace 
or cinnamon. 
Atriplez, §c. Orach, or Arrach. It is 
cold in the first degree, and moist in the 
second, saith Galen, and makes the belly 
soluble. It is an admirable remedy for the 
fits of the mother, and other infirmities of 
the matrix, and therefore the Latins called 
it Vulvaria. 
Aricula muris, major. Mouse-ear: hot 
and dry, of a binding quality, it is admira- 
ble to heal wounds, inward or outward, as 
also ruptures or burstness: Edge-tools 
quenched in the juice of it, will cut iron 
without turning the edge, as easy as the y 
will lead: And, teetly, it gee the welling 
