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add common Dodder, which is usually that 
which grows upon flax: indeed every Dod- 
der retains a virtue of that herb or plant 
it grows upon, as Dodder that grows upon 
Broom, provokes urine forcibly, and 
loosens the belly, and is moister than that 
which grows upon flax: that which grows 
upon time, is hotter and dryer than that 
which grows upon flax, even in the third 
degree, opens obstructions, helps infirmities 
of the spleen, purgeth melancholy, relieves 
drooping spirits, helps the rickets: That 
which grows on flax, is excellent for agues 
in young children, strengthens weak 
stomachs, purgeth choler, provokes urine, 
opens stoppings in the reins and bladder. 
That which grows upon nettles, provokes 
urine exceedingly. The way of using it is 
to boil it in white wine, or other convenient 
decoction, and boil it very little. £tias, 
Mesue, Actuarius, Serapio, Avincena. 
Eruch. Rocket, hot and dry in the third 
degree, being eaten alone, causeth head- 
ache, by its heat procures urine. Galen. 
Eupatorium. See Ageratum. 
Euphragia. Eyebright is something hot 
and dry, the very sight of it refresheth the 
eyes; inwardly taken, it restores the sight, 
and makes old men’s eyes young, a dram 
of it taken in the morning is worth a pair 
of spectacles, it comforts and strengthens 
the memory, outwardly applied to the 
place, it helps the eyes. 
Filiz femina. 
Filicula, polypidium. 
Filipendula. 
Malahathram. Indian-leaf, hot and dry 
in the second degree, comforts the stomach 
exceedingly, helps digestion, provokes 
urine, helps inflammations of the eyes, 
Secures cloaths from moths. 
Feniculum. Fennel, encreaseth milk in 
nurses, provokes urine, breaks the stone, 
faseth pains in the reins, opens stoppings, 
breaks wind, provokes the menses; you 
a it in white wine. : 
See the roots. 
helps hot swellings, snubs seiceali see 
Fragaria. Strawberry leaves, are cold, 
dry, and binding, a singular remedy for 
inflammations and wounds, hot diseases in 
the throat; they stop fluxes and the terms, 
cool the heat of the stomach, and the in- 
flammations of the liver. The best way is 
to boil them in barley water. 
Frazinus, &c. Ash-trees, the leaves are 
moderately hot and dry, cure the bitings of 
Adders, and Serpents; they stop looseness, 
and stay vomiting, help the rickets, open 
stoppages of the liver and spleen. 
Fumaria. Fumitory: cold and dry, it 
opens and cleanses by urine, helps such as 
are itchy, and scabbed, clears the skin, 
opens stoppages of the liver and spleen, 
helps rickets, hypochondriac melancholy, 
madness, frenzies, quartan agues, loosens 
the belly, gently purgeth melancholy, and 
addust choler: boil it in white wine, and 
take this one general rule. All things of a 
cleansing or opening nature may be most 
commodiously boiled in white wine. Re- 
member but this, and then I need not re- 
peat it. 
Galega. Goat’s-rue: Temperate in qual- 
ity, resists poison, kills worms, helps the 
falling-sickness, resists the pestilence. You 
may take a dram of it at a time in powder. 
Galion. Ladies-bed straw: dry and bind- 
ing, stanches blood, boiled in oil, the oil is 
good to anoint a weary traveller; inwardly 
it provokes venery. 
Gentiana. See the root. 
Genista. Brooms: hot and dry in the sec- 
ond degree, cleanse and open the stomach, 
break the stone in the reins and bladder, 
help the green sickness. Let such as are 
troubled with heart-qualms or faintings, — 
forbear it, for it weakens the heart and 
spirit vital. See the flowers. 3 
Geranium. Cranebill, the divers sorts of — 
it, one of which is that which is called 
Museata; it is thought to be cool and dry, 
a hat dealt 
