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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
evacuations of blood, and the falling out 
of the fundament. 
Lens palustris. Duckmeat: Cold and 
moist in the second degree, helps inflamma- 
tions, hot swellings, and the falling out of 
the fundament, being warmed and applied 
to the place. 
Lepidium Piperites. Dittander, Pepper- 
wort, or Scar-wort: A hot fiery sharp herb, 
admirable for the gout being applied to the 
place: being only held in the hand, it helps 
the tooth-ache, and withall leaves a wan 
colour in the hand that holds it. 
Livisticum. Lovage. Clears the sight, 
takes away redness and freckles from the 
face. 
Libanotis Coronaria. See Rosemary. 
Linaria. Toad-flax, or Wild-flax: hot 
and dry, cleanses the reins and bladder, 
provokes urine, opens the stoppings of the 
liver and spleen, and helps diseases coming 
thereof: outwardly it takes away yellow- 
ness and deformity of the skin. 
Lillium convallium. Lilly of the Valley. 
See the flowers. 
Lingua Cervina. Hart’s-tongue: drying 
and binding, stops blood, the menses and 
fluxes, opens stoppings of the liver and 
spleen, and diseases thence arising. The 
like quantity of Hart’s-tongue, Knotgrass 
and Comfrey Roots, being boiled in water, 
and a draught of the decoction drank every 
morning, and the materials which have 
boiled applied to the place, is a notable 
remedy for such as are bursten. 
Limonium. Sea-bugloss, or Marsh-bug- 
loss, or Sea-Lavender; the seeds being very 
drying and binding, stop fluxes and the 
menses, help the cholic and stranguary. 
Lotus urbana, Authors make some flutter 
about this herb, I conceive the best take it 
to be Trisolium Odoratum, Sweet Trefoyl, 
_ which is of a temperate nature, cleanses 
__ the eyes gently of such things as hinder the 
_ sight, cures green wounds, ruptures, or 
_ burstness, helps such as urine blood or are 
bruised, and secures garments from moths, 
Lupulus. Hops. Opening, cleansing, 
provoke urine; the young sprouts open 
stoppings of the liver and spleen, cleanse 
the blood, clear the skin, help scabs and 
itch, help agues, purge choler: they are 
usually boiled and taken as they eat aspara- 
gus, but if you would keep them, for they 
are excellent for these diseases, you may 
make them into a conserve, or into a syrup. 
Lychnitis Coronaria: or as others write 
it, Lychnis. Rose Campion. I know no great 
physical virtue it hath. 
Macis. See the barks. 
Magistrantia. &c. Masterwort. Hot and 
dry in the third degree: it is good against 
poison, pestilence, corrupt and unwhole- 
some air, helps windiness in the stomach, 
causeth an appetite to one’s victuals, very 
profitable in falls and bruises, congealed 
and clotted blood, the bitings of mad-dogs; 
the leaves chewed in the mouth, cleanse the 
brain of superfluous humours, thereby pre- 
venting lethargies, and apoplexes. 
Malwa. Mallows. The best of Authors 
account wild Mallows to be best, and hold 
them to be cold and moist in the first degree, 
they are profitable in the bitings of venom- 
ous beasts, the stinging of bees and wasps, 
&c. Inwardly they resist poison, provoke 
to stool; outwardly they assuage hard 
swellings of the privities or other places; in 
clysters they help roughness and fretting of 
the entrails, bladder, or fundament; and so 
they do being boiled in water, and the de- 
coction drank, as I have proved in the 
bloody flux. 
Majorana. See Amaraeus. 
Mandragora. Mandrakes. Fit for 1° 
vulgar use, but only to be used in cooling 
ointments. 
Marrubium, album, nigrum, fetidum. 
Marrubium, album, is common Hore- 
hound. Hot in the second degree, and dry i0 
the third, opens the liver and spleen, 
cleanses the breast and lungs, helps old — 
