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ple, helps the stranguary, provokes urine, 
and breaks the stone in the bladder, boil it 
and drink the decoction; but because a little 
boiling will carry away the strength of it in 
vapours, let it boil but very little, and let it 
stand close stopped till it be cold before 
you strain it out; this is the general rule for 
all simples of this nature. 
Chamapitys. Ground-pine; hot in the 
second degree, and dry in the third, helps 
the jaundice, sciatica, stopping of the liver, 
and spleen, provokes the menses, cleanses 
the entrails, dissolves congealed blood, re- 
sists poison, cures wounds and ulcers. 
Strong bodies may take a dram, and weak 
bodies half a dram of it in powder at a 
time. 
Chamemelum, sativum, sylvestre. Garden 
and Wild Chamomel.. Garden Chamomel, 
is hot and dry in the first degree, and as 
gallant a medicine against the stone in the 
bladder as grows upon the earth, you may 
take it inwardly, I mean the decoction of 
it, being boiled in white wine, or inject the 
juice of it into the bladder with a syringe. 
It expels wind, helps belchings, and po- 
tently provokes the menses: used in baths, 
it helps pains in the sides, gripings and 
gnawings in the belly. 
Chamedris, &c. Germander: hot and 
dry in the third degree; cuts and brings 
away tough humours, opens stoppings of 
the liver and spleen,helps coughs and short- 
ness of breath, stranguary and stopping of 
urine, and provokes the menses; half a 
dram is enough to take at a time. 
Chelidonium utrumque. Celandine both 
Sorts. Small Celandine is usually called 
Pilewort ; it is something hotter and dryer 
than the former, it helps the hemorrhoids 
or piles, bruised and applied to the grief. 
Celandine the greater is hot and dry (they 
Say in the third degree) any way used; 
_ either the juice made into an oil or oint- 
ee ae 
and an a excellent 5 bales ian the Figs 
Cinara, &c. Artichokes. They provoke 
venery, and purge by urine. 
Cichorium. Succory, to which add Endive 
which comes after. They are cold and dry | 
in the second degree, cleansing and open- 
ing; they cool the heats of the liver, and 
are profitable in the yellow jaundice, and 
burning fevers; help excoriations in the 
privities, hot stomachs; and outwardly ap- 
plied, help hot rheums in the eyes. 
Cicuta. Hemlock: cold in the fourth 
degree, poisonous: outwardly applied, it 
helps Priapismus, the shingles, St. An- 
thony’s fire, or any eating ulcers. 
Clematis Daphnoides, Vinca provinca. 
Peri-winkle. Hot in the second degree, 
something dry and binding; stops lasks, 
spitting of blood, and the menses. 
Consolida major. Comfrey, I do not con- 
ceive the leaves to be so virtuous as the roots. 
Consolida media. Bugles,of which before. 
Consolida minima. Daises. 
Consolida rubra. Golden Rod: hot and 
dry in the second degree, cleanses the reins, 
provokes urine, brings away the gravel: 
an admirable herb for wounded people to 
take inwardly, stops blood, &c. 
Consolida Regalis, Delphinium. Lark 
heels: resist poison, help the bitings of 
venomous beasts. 
Saracenica Solidago. Saracens Confound 
Helps inward wounds, sore mouths, sore 
throats, wasting of the lungs, and liver. 
Coronepus. Buchorn Plantane, or Sea- 
plantain: cold and dry, helps the bitings 
of venomous beasts, either taken inwardly, 
or applied to the wound: helps the cholic, 
breaks the stone. Zgineta. 
Coronaria. Hath got many English 
names. Cottonweed, Cudweed, Chaffweed, — 
and Petty Cotton. Of a drying and bind- ae 
ing nature; boiled in lye, it keeps the head 
from nits and lice; being laid amc 
clothes, it ae them ‘safe. nar 
