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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Thymum. Thyme. Hot and dry in the 
third degree; helps coughs and shortness of 
breath, provokes the menses, brings away 
dead children and the after birth; purges 
flegm, cleanses the breast and lungs, reins 
and matrix; helps the sciatica, pains in the 
breast, expels wind in any part of the body, 
resists fearfulness and melancholy, con- 
tinual pains in the head, and is profitable 
for such as have the falling-sickness to 
smell to. 
Thymelea. The Greek name for Spurge- 
Olive: Mezereon being the Arabick name. 
Tithymallus, Esula, §c. Spurge. Hot 
and dry in the fourth degree: a dogged 
purge, better let alone than taken inwardly: 
hair anointed with the juice of it will fall 
off: it kills fish, being mixed with any thing 
that they will eat: outwardly it cleanses 
ulcers, takes away freckles, sun-burning 
and morphew from the face. 
Tormentilla. See the root. 
Trinitatis herba. Pansies, or Heart’s- 
ease: They are cold and moist, both herbs 
and flowers, excellent against inflammations 
_ of the breast or lungs, convulsions or fall- 
ing-sickness, also they are held to be good 
for venereal complaints. 
Trifolium. Trefoil: dry in the third de- 
' gree, and cold: The ordinary Meadow Tre- 
foil, cleanses the bowels of slimy humours 
that stick to them, being used either in 
drinks or clysters; outwardly they take 
_ away inflammations. 
-Tussilago. Colt’s-foot: something cold 
and dry, and therefore good for inflamma- 
tions, they are admirably good for coughs, 
and consumptions of the lungs, shortness 
of breath, &c. It is often used and with 
- good success taken in a tobacco-pipe, being 
cut and mixed with a little oil of annis 
seeds. See the Syrup of Colt’s-foot. 
_ Valeriana. Valerian, or Setwall. See the 
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Verbascum, Thapsus Borbatus. , Mullin, 
Higtaper. It is something d 
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a digesting, cleansing quality, stops fluxes 
and the hemorrhoids, it cures hoarseness, 
the cough, and such as are broken winded. 
Verbena, Vervain: hot and dry, a great 
opener, cleanser, healer, it helps the yellow 
jaundice, defects in the reins and bladder, 
pains in the head; if it be but bruised and 
hung about the neck, all diseases in the 
privities; made into an ointment it is a 
sovereign remedy for old head-aches, as 
also frenzies, it clears the skin, and causes 
a lovely colour. 
Voronica. See Betonica Pauli. 
Violaria. Violet Leaves: they are cool, 
ease pains in the head proceeding of heat 
and frenzies, either inwardly taken, or out- 
wardly applied; heat of the stomach, or in- 
flammation of the lungs. 
Vitis Viniseria. The manured Vine: the 
leaves are binding and cool withal; the 
burnt ashes of the sticks of a vine, scour 
the teeth and make them as white as snow; 
the leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heart- 
burnings, vomitings; as also the longings of 
pregnant women. The coals of a burnt 
Vine, in powder, mixed with honey, doth 
make the teeth as white as ivory, which are 
rubbed with it. 
Vincitozicum. Swallow-wort. A  pultis 
made with the leaves helps sore breasts, and 
also soreness of the matrix. 
Virga Pastoris. A third name for Tea- 
zles. See Dipsatus. 
Virga Aurea. See Consolida. 
Ulmaria. See the root. Meadsweet. 
Umbslicus Veneris. Navil-wort: Cold, 
dry, and binding, therefore helps all ix 
flammations; they are very good for kibed 
heels, being bathed with it and a leaf laid 
over the sore. 
Urtica. Nettles: an herb so well know?, 
that you may find them by the feeling 
the darkest night: they are something hot, 
not very hot; the juice stops bleeding; they 
provoke lust, help difficulty of breathing; 
pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, that 
