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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Carduus B. Marie. Our Ladies Thistles. 
They are far more temperate than Carduus 
Benedictus, open obstructions of the liver, 
helps the jaundice and dropsy, provoke 
urine, break the stone. 
Carduus Benedictus. Blessed Thistle, but 
better known by the Latin name: it is hot 
and dry in the second degree, cleansing and 
- opening, helps swimming and giddiness in 
the head, deafness, strengthens the mem- 
ory, helps griping pains in the belly, kills 
worms, provokes sweat, expels poison,helps 
inflammation of the liver, is very good in 
pestilence and venereal: outwardly applied, 
it ripens plague-sores, and helps hot swell- 
ings, the bitings of made dogs and venomous 
beasts, and foul filthy ulcers. Every one 
that can but make a Carduus posset, knows 
how to use it. 
anovanus. 
Chalina. See the roots, under the name 
of white Chameleon. 
Corallina. A kind of Sea Moss: cold, 
binding, drying, good for hot gouts, inflam- 
mations: also they say it kills worms, and 
therefore by some is called Maw-wormseed. 
Cussutha, cascuta, potagralini. Dodder. 
See Epithimum. 
Caryophyllata. Avens, or Herb Bennet, 
hot and dry: they help the cholic, rawness 
of the stomach, stitches in the sides, 
stoppings of the liver, and bruises. 
Cataputia minor, A kind of Spurge. See 
Tythymalus. 
Cattaria, Nepeta. Nep, or Catmints. 
The virtues are the same with Calaminth. 
Cauda Equina. Horse-tail; is of a bind- 
ing drying quality, cures wounds, and is an 
admirable remedy for sinews that are 
shrunk: it is a sure remedy for bleeding at 
_ the nose, or by wound, stops the menses, 
_ fluxes, ulcers in the reins and bladder, 
coughs, ulcers in the lungs, difficulty of 
Camerarius, Arnuldus vel 
They are drying and binding, help dimness 
of the sight: help the spleen, preserve from 
drunkenness, and helps the evil effects of 
it; provoke the menses. 
Centaurium, majus, minus. Centaury the 
greater and less. They say the greater 
will do wonders in curing wounds: see the 
root. The less is a present remedy for the 
yellow jaundice, opens stoppings of the 
liver, gall, and spleen: purges choler, helps 
gout, clears the sight, purgeth the stomach, 
helps the dropsy and green sickness. It is 
only the tops and flowers which are useful, 
of which you may take a dram inwardly in 
powder, or half a handful boiled in posset- 
drink at a time. 
Centinodium, &c. Knotgrass: cold in the 
second degree, helps spitting and other 
evacuations of blood, stops the menses and 
all other fluxes of blood, vomiting of blood, 
gonorrhea, or running of the reins, weak- 
ness of the back and joints, inflammations 
of the privities, and such as make water by 
drops, and it is an excellent remedy for 
hogs that will not eat their meat. Your 
only way is to boil it, it is in its prime about 
the latter end of July, or beginning of 
August: at which time being gathered it 
may be kept dry all the year. Brassavolus, 
Camerarius. 
Caryfolium vulgare et Myrrhis. Common 
and great chervil: Take them both together, 
and they are temperately hot and dry, pro 
voke urine, stir up venery, comfort the 
heart, and are good for old people; help 
pleurises and pricking in the sides. 
Cepea, Anagallis aquatica. Brooklime, 
hot and dry, but not so hot and dry 48 
Water cresses; they help mangy horses: 
see Water cresses. 
Ceterach, §c. Spleenwort: moderately 
hot, waste and consumes the spleen, inso- 
much that Vitruvius affirms he hath know? 
hogs that have fed upon it, that have had 
(when they were killed) no spleens at all. 
{ It is excellently good for melancholy pe” 
