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(Whence comes hoarsness and coughs, &c.) 
helps fluxes, creeping ulcers, and the yellow 
jaundice; they say one leaf cures a quoti- 
dian ague, three a tertain, and four a quar- 
tan. I know it will cure agues without this 
curiosity, if a wise man have the handling 
of it; otherwise a cart load will not do it. 
Petroselinum. Parsley. See Smallage. 
Per Columbinus. See Geranium. 
Persicarium folia. Peach Leaves: they 
are a gentle, yet a complete purger of 
choler, and disease coming from thence; 
fit for children because of their gentleness. 
You may boil them in white wine: a hand- 
full is enough at a time. 
Pilosella. Mouse-ear: once before and 
this is often enough. 
Pithyusa. A new name for Spurge of the 
last Edition. 
Plantago. Plantain. Cold and dry; an 
herb, though common, yet let none despise 
it, for the decoction of it prevails mightily 
_ against tormenting pains and excoriations 
of the entrails, bloody fluxes, it stops the 
menses, and spitting of blood, phthisicks, 
or consumption of the lungs, the running of 
the reins, and the Fluor Albus, pains in the 
head, and frenzies: outwardly it clears the 
sight, takes away inflammations, scabs, 
itch, the shingles, and all spreading sores, 
and is as wholesome an herb as can grow 
about any an house. T'ragus, Dioscorides. 
Polium, Sc. Polley, or Pellamountain: 
All the sorts are hot in the second degree, 
and dry in the third : helps dropsies, the yel- 
low jaundice, infirmities of the spleen, and 
provokes urine. Dioscorides. 
Polygonum. Knotgrass. 
_ Polytricum. Maidenhair. 
Portulaca. Purslain: Cold and moist in 
the second or third degree: cools hot 
stomachs, and it is admirable for one that 
hath his teeth on edge by eating sour 
apples, it cools the blood, liver, and is good 
for hot diseases, or inflammations in any of 
Ra mae 
and helps all inward inflammations what- 
soever. 
Porrum. Leeks. See the roots. 
Primula Veris. See Cowslips, or the 
Flowers, which you will. 
Prunella. Self-heal, Carpenter’s-herb, 
and Sicklewort. Moderately hot and dry, 
binding. See Bugle, the virtues being the 
same. 
Pulegium. Pennyroyal; hot and dry in 
the third degree; provokes urine, breaks 
the stone in the reins, strengthens women’s 
backs, provokes the menses, easeth their 
labour in child-bed, brings away the pla- 
centa,stays vomiting, strengthens the brain, 
breaks wind, and helps the vertigo. 
Pulmonaria, arborea, et Symphytum 
maculosum. Lung-wort. It helps infirmities 
of the lungs, as hoarsness, coughs, wheez- 
ing, shortness of breath, &c. You may boil 
it in Hyssop-water, or any other water that 
strengthens the lungs. 
Pulicaria. Fleabane; hot and dry in the 
third degree, helps the biting of venomous 
beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow 
jaundice, the falling sickness, and such as 
cannot make water; being burnt, the smoak 
of it kills all the gnats and fleas in the 
chamber; it is dangerous for pregnant 
women. 
Pyrus sylvestris. Wild Pear-tree. I know 
no virtue in the leaves. 
Pyrola. Winter-green. Cold and dry, and 
very binding, stops fluxes, and the menses, 
and is admirably good in green wounds. 
Quercus folia. Oak Leaves: Are much 
of the nature of the former, stay the Fluor 
Albus. See the bark. 
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Names: Crowfoot, King-kob, Gold-cups, — 
Gold-knobs, Butter-flowers, &c. they are _ 
of a notable hot quality, unfit to be taken 
inwardly: If you bruise the roots and apply 
them to a plague-sore, they are. 
things to draw the venom to them. 
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