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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot; 
helps the wind cholic, pains in the belly, 
stone in the reins and bladder, and is good 
in ruptures, and inward wounds. I suppose 
these are the general virtues of them all. 
Gramen. Grass: See the root. 
Gratiola, Hedge-Hyssop, purges water 
and flegm, but works very churlishly. 
Gesner commends it in dropsies. 
Asphodelus fem. See the root. 
Hepatica, Lichen. Liverwort, cold and 
dry, good for inflammations of the liver, 
or any other inflammations, yellow jaundice. 
Hedera Arborea, Terrostris. Tree and 
Ground-Ivy. Tree-Ivy helps ulcers, burn- 
ings, scaldings, the bad effects of the 
spleen; the juice snuffed up the nose, 
purges the head, it is admirable for surfeits 
or head-ache, or any other ill effects com- 
ing of drunkenness. Ground-Ivy is that 
which usually is called Alehoof, hot and 
dry, the juice helps noise in the ears, fis- 
tula’s, gouts, stoppings of the liver, it 
strengthens the reins and stops the menses, 
helps the yellow jaundice, and other dis- 
eases coming of stoppings of the liver, and 
is excellent for wounded people. 
Herba Camphorata. Stinking Ground- 
pine, is of a drying quality, and therefore 
stops defluxions either in the eyes or upon 
the lungs, the gout, cramps, palsies, aches: 
strengthens the nerves. 
Herbu Paralysis, Primula veris. Prim- 
.Toses, or Cowslips, which you will. The 
leaves help pains in the head and joints; 
see the flowers which are most in use. 
Herba Paris. Herb True-love, or One- 
berry. It is good for wounds, falls, bruises, 
aposthumes, inflammations, ulcers in the 
_ privities. Herb True-love, is very cold in 
temperature. You may take half a dram of 
it at a time in powder. 
_ Herba Roberti. A kind of Cranebill. 
_ Herba venti, Anemone. Wind-flower. The 
juice snuffed up in the nose purgeth the 
milk in nurses, and outwardly by oint- 
ment helps leprosies. 
Herniaria. The same with Empetron. 
Helzine. Pellitory of the wall. Cold, 
moist, cleansing, helps the stone and gravel 
{ in the kidnies, difficulty of urine, sore 
throats, pains in the ears, the juice being 
dropped in them; outwardly it helps the 
shingles and St. Anthony’s fire. 
Hyppoglossum. Horse-tongue, Tongue- 
blade or Double-Tongue. The roots help 
the stranguary, provoke urine, ease the 
hard labour of women, provoke the menses, 
the herb helps ruptures and the fits of the 
mother: it is hot in the second degree, dry 
in the first: boil it in white wine. 
Hyppolapathum. Patience, or Monk’s 
Rhubarb: see the Root. 
Hypposclinum. Alexanders, or Alisan- 
ders: provoke urine, expel the placenta, 
help the stranguary, expel wind. 
Sage either taken inwardly or beaten 
and applied plaister-wise to the matrix, 
draws forth both menses and placenta. 
Horminum. Clary: hot and dry in the 
third degree; helps the weakness in the 
back, stops the running of the reins, and 
the Fluor Albus, provokes the menses, and 
helps women that are barren through cold- 
ness or moisture, or both: causes fruitful- 
ness, but is hurtful for the memory. The 
usual way of taking it is to fry it with but- 
ter, or make a tansy with it. 
Hydropiper. Arsmart. Hot and dry; 
consumes all cold swellings and blood con- 
gealed by bruises, and stripes; applied to 
the place, it helps that aposthume in the 
joints, commonly called a felon: strewed 
in a chamber, kills all the fleas there: this 
is hottest Arsmart, and is unfit to be give? 
inwardly: there is a milder sort, called 
Persicaria, which is of a cooler and milder 
quality, drying, excellently good for putt 
fied ulcers, kills worms: I had almost for- 
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