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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
leaves, when they are young and tender, 
they are held to provoke urine. 
Rosmarirum. Rosemary, hot and dry in 
the second degree, binding, stops fluxes, 
helps stuffings in the head, the yellow jaun- 
dice, helps the memory, expels wind. See 
the flowers. Serapio, Dioscorides. 
Rosa solis. See the water. 
Rosa alba, rubra, Damascena. White, 
Red, and Damask Roses. 
Rumez. Dock; All the ordinary sort of 
Docks are of a cool and drying substance, 
and therefore stop fluxes; and the leaves 
are seldom used in physic. 
Rubus, Ideus: Raspis, Raspberries, or 
Hind-berries: I know no great virtues in 
the leaves. 
Ruta. Rue, or Herb of Grace; hot and 
dry in the third degree, consumes the seed, 
and is an enemy to generation, helps dif- 
ficulty of breathing, and inflammations of 
the lungs, pains in the sides, inflammations 
of the priapus and matrix, naught for preg- 
nant women: no herb resists poison more. 
It strengthens the heart exceedingly, and 
no herb better than this in pestilential 
times, take it what manner you will or can. 
Ruta Muraria. See Adianthum. 
Sabina. Savin: hot and dry in the third 
degree, potently provokes the menses, ex- 
pels both birth and afterbirth, they (boiled 
in oil and used in ointments) stay creeping 
ulcers, scour away spots, freckles and sun- 
burning from the face; the belly anointed 
with it kills worms in children. _ 
Salvia. Sage: hot and dry in the second 
or third degree, binding, it stays abortion 
in such women as are subject to come before 
their times, it causes fruitfulness, it is sin- 
gularly good for the brain, strengthens the 
senses and memory, helps spitting and 
vomiting of blood: outwardly, heat hot 
with a little vinegar and applied to the side, 
helps stitches and pains in the sides. 
Salix. Willow leaves, are cold, dry, and 
the boughs stuck about a chamber, wonder- 
fully cool the air, and refresh such as have 
fevers; the leaves applied to the head, help 
hot diseases there, and frenzies. 
Sampsucum. Marjoram. 
Sunicula. Sanicle; hot and dry in the 
second degree, cleanses wounds and ulcers. 
Saponaria. Sope-wort, or Bruise-wort, 
vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers, 
and is of notable use in the veneral disease. 
Satureia. Savory. Summer savory is hot 
and dry in the third degree, Winter savory 
is not so hot, both of them expel wind. 
Sazifragia alba. White Saxifrage, breaks 
wind, helps the cholic and stone. 
Scabiosa. Scabious: hot and dry in the 
second degree, cleanses the breast and 
lungs, helps old rotten coughs, and difficulty 
of breathing, provokes urine, and cleanses 
the bladder of filthy stuff, breaks apost- 
humes, and cures scabs and itch. Boil it in 
white wine. 
Scariola. An Italian name for Succory. 
Schenanthus. Schenanth, Squinanth, 
or Chamel’s hay; hot and binding. It di- 
gests and opens the passages of the veins: 
surely it is as great an expeller of wind as 
any is. 
Scordium. Water-Germander, hot and 
dry, cleanses ulcers in the inward parts, it 
provokes urine and the menses, opens 
stopping of the liver, spleen, reins, bladder, 
and matrix, it is a great counter poison, and 
eases the breast oppressed with flegm: see 
Diascordium. 
Scrophularia. Figwort, so called of 
Scrophula, the King’s Evil, which it cures 
they say, by being only hung about the 
neck. If not, bruise it, and apply it to the 
place, it helps the piles or hemorrhoids. 
Sedum. And all his sorts: see Barba 
Jovis. — 
Senna. It heats in the second degree and 
dries in the first, cleanses, purges, and di- 
gests; it carries downward both cholet; 
