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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Nettle seed, provokes venery, opens stop- 
pages of the womb, helps inflammations of 
of the sides and lungs; purgeth the breast: 
boil them (being bruised) in white wine 
also. 
The seeds of Ammi, or Bishop’s-weed, 
heat and dry, help difficulty of urine, and 
the pains of the cholic, the bitings of ven- 
omous beasts; they provoke the menses, 
and purge the womb. 
Annis seeds, heat and dry, ease pain, ex- 
pel wind, cause a sweet breath, help the 
dropsy, resist poison, breed milk, and stop 
the Fluor Albus in women, provoke venery, 
and ease the head-ache. 
Cardamoms, heat, kill worms, cleanse the 
reins, and provoke urine. 
Fennel seed, breaks wind, provokes urine 
and the menses, encreases milk in nurses. 
Cummin seed, heat, bind, and dry, stop 
blood, expel wind, ease pain, help the 
bitings of venomous beast: outwardly ap- 
plied (viz. in Plaisters) they are of a dis- 
cussing nature. 
Carrot seeds, are windy, provoke lust ex- 
ceedingly, and encrease seed, provoke urine 
and the menses, cause speedy delivery to 
women in travail, and bring away the 
placenta. All these also may be boiled in 
white wine. 
Nigella seeds, boiled in oil, and the fore- 
head anointed with it, ease pains in the 
head, take away leprosy, itch, scurf, and 
help scald heads: Inwardly taken they 
expel worms, they provoke urine, and the 
menses, help difficulty of breathing. 
_ Stavesacre, kills lice in the head, I hold 
it not fitting to be given inwardly. 
Olibanum mixed with as much Barrow’s 
_ Grease (beat the Olibanum first in powder) 
and boiled together, make an ointment 
_ which will kill the lice in children’s heads, 
and such as are subject to breed them, will 
never breed them. A Medicine cheap, 
ife and ube which h breeds no ves feate 
The seeds of Water-cresses, heat, yet 
trouble the stomach and belly; ease the 
pains of the spleen, are very dangerous for 
pregnant women, yet they provoke lust: 
outwardly applied, they help leprosies, 
scald heads, and the falling off of hair, as 
also .carbuncles, and cold ulcers in the 
joints. 
Mustard seed, heats, extenuates, and 
draws moisture from the brain: the head 
being shaved and anointed with Mustard, is 
a good remedy for the lethargy, it helps 
filthy ulcers, and hard swellings in the 
mouth, it helps old aches coming of cold. 
French Barley, is cooling, nourishing, 
and breeds milk. 
Sorrel seeds, potently resist poison, help 
fluxes, and such stomachs as loath their 
meat. 
Succory seed, cools the heat of the blood, 
extinguishes lust, opens stoppings of the 
liver and bowels, it allays the heat of the 
body, and produces a good colour, it 
strengthens the stomach, liver, and reins. 
Poppy seeds, ease pain, provoke sleep. 
Your best way is to make an emulsion of 
them with barley water. 
Mallow seeds, ease pains in the bladder. 
Chich-pease, are windy, provoke lust, en- 
crease milk in nurses, provokes the menses, 
outwardly, they help scabs, itch, and in- 
flammations of the testicles, ulcers, &c. 
White Sazifrage seeds, provoke urine, 
expel wind, and break the stone. Boil them 
in white wine. 
Rue seeds, helps such as cannot hold 
their water. 
Lettice seedy cools the blood, restrains 
venery. 
Also Gourds, Citruls, Bcatee Melons, 
Purslain, and Endive seeds, cool the blood, 
as also the stomach, spleen, and reins, and 
allay the heat of fevers. Use them as you 
were taught to do poppy-seeds. 
Wormseed, expels wind, kills worms. — 
