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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
coughs of the —_— and vehement head- 
aches. 
Cruciata. Crosswort: (there is a kind 
of Gentian called also by this name, which 
I pass by) is drying and binding, exceed- 
ing good for inward or outward wounds, . 
either inwardly taken, or outwardly ap- 
plied: and an excellent remedy for such 
as are bursten. 
Crassula. Orpine. Very good: out- 
wardly used with vinegar, it clears the 
skin; inwardly taken, it helps gnawings of 
the stomach and bowels, ulcers in the lungs, 
bloody-flux, and quinsy in the throat, for 
which last disease it is inferior to none, 
take not too much of it at a oe because 
of its coolness. 
Crithamus, §c. Sampire. Hot and dry, 
helps difficulty of urine, the yellow jaun- 
dice, provokes the menses, helps digestion, 
opens stoppings of the liver and spleen. 
Galen. 
Cucumis Asininus. Wild Cucumbers. See 
Elaterium. 
Cyanus major, minor. Blue bottle, great 
and small, a fine cooling herb, helps, 
bruises, wounds, broken veins; the juice 
dropped into the eye, helps the inflamma- 
tions thereof. 
Cygnoglossam. Hound’s-Tongue, cold and 
dry: applied to the fundament helps the 
hemorrhoids, heals wounds and ulcers, and 
is a present remedy against the bitings of 
dogs, burnings and scaldings. 
Cypressus, Chame Cyparissus. Cypress- 
tree. The leaves are hot and binding, help 
ruptures, and Polypus or flesh growing on 
the nose. 
Chame cyparissus. Is Lavender Cotton. 
Resists poison, and kills worms. 
Disetamnus Cretensis. Dictamny, or Dit- 
_tany of Creet, hot and dry, brings away 
dead children, hastens delivery, brings 
_ away the placenta, the very smell of it 
_ drives away venomous beasts, so deadly an 
_ enemy it is to poison; it is an admirable 
remedy against wounds and gunshot, 
wounds made with poisoned weapons, it 
draws out splinters, broken bones, &c. The 
dose from half a dram to a dram. 
Dipsacus, sativ. sylv. Teazles, garden 
and wild, the leaves bruised and applied to 
the temples, allay the heat in fevers, qualify 
the rage in frenzies; the juice dropped into 
the ears, kills worms in them, dropped into 
the eyes, clears the sight, helps redness and 
pimples in the face, being anointed with it. 
Ebulus. Dwarf Elder, or Walwort. Hot 
and dry in the third degree; waste hard 
swellings, being applied in form of a 
poultice; the hair of the head anointed with - 
the juice of it turns it black; the leaves 
being applied to the place, helps inflamma- 
tions, burnings, scaldings, the bitings of — 
mad dogs; mingled with bulls suet is a pre- 
sent remedy for the gout; inwardly taken, 
is a singular purge for the dropsy and gout. 
Echium. Viper’s-bugloss, Viper’s-herb, 
Snake bugloss, Wal-bugloss, Wild-bugloss, 
several counties give it these several names: 
It is a singular remedy being eaten, for the 
biting of venomous beasts: continually 
eating of it makes the body invincible 
against the poison of serpents, toads, 
spiders, &c. however it be administered; it 
comforts the heart, expels sadness and mel- 
ancholy. The rich may make the flowers 
into a conserve, and the herb into a syrup, 
the poor may keep it dry; both may keep it 
as a jewel. 
Empetron, Calcifragra, Herniaria, Se. 
Rupture-wort, or Burst-wort. The English 
name tells you it is good against ruptures, 
and so such as are bursten shall find it, if 
they please to make trial of it, either in- 
wardly taken, or outwardly applied to the 
place, or both. Also the Latin names hold 
it forth to be good against the stone, which 
whoso tries shall find true. 
Enula Campana. Elicampane. Provokes 
urine. See the root. 
Epithimum. Dodder of Time, to which 
