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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
leek or Sengreen, Duckmeat, and most 
other herbs that are very cold. 
Extenuate. Mugwort, Chamomel, Hysop, 
Pennyroyal, Stechas, Time, Mother of 
Time, Juniper, &c. 
Discuss. Southernwood male and female, 
all the four sorts of Maidenhair, Marsh- 
mallows, Dill, Mallows, Arrach, Beets, 
Chamomel, Mints, Melilot, Pelitory of the 
Wall, Chickweed, Rue, Steechas, Marjoram. 
Draw. Pimpernel, Birthwort, Dittany, 
Leeks, Onions, Garlick, and also take this 
general rule, as all cold things bind and 
harden, so all things very hot are drying. 
Suppure. Mallows, Marsh-mallows, 
White Lily leaves, &c. 
Cleanse. Pimpernel, Southernwood, 
Sparagus, Cetrach, Arrach, Wormwood, 
Beet, Pellitory of the Wall, Chamepitis, 
Dodder, Liverwort, Horehound, Willow 
leaves, &c. 
Glutinate. Marsh-mallows, Pimpernel, 
Centaury, Chamepitis, Mallows, German- 
der, Horsetail, Agrimony, Maudlin, Straw- 
berry leaves, Woad-chervil, Plantain, 
Cinquefoil, Comfry, Bugle, Self-heal, 
Woundwort, Tormentil, Rupture-wort, 
Knot-grass, Tobacco. 
Ezpel wind. Wormwood, Garlick, Dill, 
Smallage, Chamomel, Epithimum, Fennel, 
Juniper, Marjoram, Origanum, Savory 
both winter and summer. Tansy is good to 
cleanse the stomach and bowels of rough 
viscous flegm, and humours that stick to 
them, which the flegmatic constitution of 
the winter usually infects the body of man 
with, and occasions gouts and other diseases 
of like nature and lasting long. This was 
the original of that custom to eat Tansys in 
the spring; the herb may be made into a 
conserve with sugar, or boil it in wine and 
_ drink the decoction, or make the juice into 
_ a 8yrup with sugar, which you will. 
Herbs breed seed. Clary, Rocket, and 
st herbs that are hot and moist, and 
Provoke the terms. Southernwood, Gar- 
lick, all the sorts of Maiden hair, Mugwort, 
Wormwood, Bishops-weed, Cabbages, Bet- 
tony, Centaury, Chamomel, Calaminth, 
Germander, Dodder, Dittany, Fennel, St. 
John’s Wort, Marjoram, Horehound, 
Bawm, Water-cresses, Origanum, Bazil, 
Pennyroyal, Poley mountain, Parsley, 
Smallage, Rue, Rosemary, Sage, Savin, 
Hartwort, Time, Mother of Time, Scor- 
dium, Nettles. 
Stop the terms. Shepherd’s purse, Straw- 
berries, Mirtles, Water Lilies, Plantain, 
Houseleek or Sengreen, Comfry, Knotgrass. 
Resist poison. Southernwood, Worm- 
wood, Garlick, all sorts of Maiden hair, 
Smallage, Bettony, Carduus Benedictus, 
Germander, Calaminth, Alexanders, Car- 
line Thistle, Agrimony, Fennel, Juniper, 
Horehound, Origanum, Pennyroyal, Poley 
mountain, Rue, Scordium, Plantain. 
Discuss swellings. Maiden-hair, Cleavers, 
or Goosegrass, Mallows, Marsh-mallows, 
Docks, Bawm, Water-cresses, Cinquefoil, 
Scordium, &c. 
Ease pain. Dil, Wormwood, Arach, 
Chamomel, Calaminth, Chamepitis, Hen- 
bane, Hops, Hog’s Fennel, Parsley, Rose- 
mary, Rue, Marjoram, Mother of Time. 
Herbs Purging. 
Choler. Groundsel, Hops, Peach leaves, 
Wormwood, Centaury, Mallows, Senna. 
Melancholy. Ox-eye, Epithimum, Fumi- 
tory, Senna, Dodder. 
Flegm and water. Briony, white and 
black, Spurge, both work most violently 
and are not fit for a vulgar use, Dwarf 
Elder, Hedge Hyssop, Laurel leaves, Mer- 
cury, Mezereon also purges violently, and 
so doth Sneezewort, Elder leaves, Senna- 
For the particular operations of these, 85 
also how to order the body after purges; the 
quantity to be taken at a time, you have 
been in part instructed already, and shall 
be more fully hereafter. 
