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Botrys. Oak of Jerusalem: hot and dry 
in the second degree, helps such as are 
short-winded, cuts and wastes gross and 
tough flegm, laid among cloaths they pre- 
serve them from moths, and give them a 
sweet smell. 
Branca ursina. Bears-breech. 
Brionia, §c. Briony, white and black; 
both are hot and dry in the third degree, 
purge violently, yet are held to be whole- 
some physic for such as have dropsies, 
vertigo, or swimming in the head, falling- 
Sickness, &c. Certainly it is a strong, 
troublesome purge, therefore not to be tam- 
pered with by the unskilful, outwardly in 
ointments it takes away freckles, wrinkles, 
morphews, scars, spots, &c. from the face. 
Bursa pastoris. Shepherd’s Purse, is 
manifestly cold and dry, though Lobel and 
Pena thought the contrary; it is binding 
and stops blood, the menses; and cools in- 
flammations. 
Buglossom. Buglosse. Its virtues are 
the same with Borrage. 
Bugula. Bugle, or Middle Comfrey; is 
temperate for heat, but very drying, excel- 
lent for falls or inward bruises, for it dis- 
Solves congealed blood, profitable for in- 
ward wounds, helps the rickets and other 
stoppings of the liver; outwardly it is of 
wonderful force in curing wounds and 
ulcers, though festered, as also gangreens 
and fistulas, it helps broken bones, and dis- 
locations, Inwardly you may take it in 
powder a dram at a time, or drink the decoc- 
tion of it in white-wine: being made into an 
ointment with hog’s grease, you shall find 
it admirable in green wounds. 
_ Buphthalmum, §c. Ox eye. Matthiolus 
Saith they are commonly used for black 
Hellebore, to the virtues of which I refer. 
Buzus. Boxtree: the leaves are hot, dry, 
and binding, they are profitable against the 
biting of mad dogs; both taken inwardly 
boiled and applied to the place: besides 
they are good to cure horses of the bots. 
Calamintha, Montana, Palustris. Moun- 
tain and Water Calamint: For the Water 
Calamint: see mints, than which it is ac- 
counted stronger. Mountain Calamint, is 
hot and dry in the third degree, provokes 
urine and the menses, hastens the birth 
in women, brings away the placenta, helps 
cramps, convulsions, difficulty of breathing, 
kills worms, helps the dropsy: outwardly 
used, it helps such as hold their necks on 
one side: half a dram is enough at one time. 
Galen, Dioscorides, Apuleius. 
Calendula, §c. Marigolds. The leaves 
are hot in the second degree, and some- 
thing moist, loosen the belly: the juice held 
in the mouth, helps the toothache, and takes 
away any inflammation or hot swelling 
being bathed with it, mixed with a little 
vinegar. 
Callitricum. Maiden-hair. 
thum. 
Caprisolium. Honey-suckles: The leaves 
are hot, and therefore naught for inflam- 
mations of the mouth and throat, for which 
the ignorant people oftentime give them: 
and Galen was true in this, let modern 
writers write their pleasure. If you chew 
but a leaf of it in your mouth, experience 
will tell you that it is likelier to cause, than 
to cure a sore throat, they provoke urine, 
and purge by urine, bring speedy delivery 
to women in travail, yet procure barren- 
ness and hinder conception, outwardly they 
dry up foul ulcers, and cleanse the face 
from morphew, sun-burning and freckles. 
Carduncellus, §c. Groundsell. Cold and 
moist according to T'ragus, helps the cholic, 
and gripings in the belly, helps such as can- 
not make water, cleanses the reins, purges 
choler and sharp humours: the usual way 
of taking it is to boil it in water with cur- 
rants, and so eat it. I hold it to be a whole- 
some and harmless purge. Outwardly it — 
See Adian- 
easeth women’s breasts that are swollen _ 
