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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
The stomach. Rosemary-flowers, Spike- 
nard, Schenanth. 
The liver. Centaury, Schenanth, Elder, 
Bettony, Chamomel, Spikenard. 
The spleen. Bettony, Wall-flowers. 
The reins and bladder. Bettony, Marsh- 
mallows, Melilot, Schoenanth, Spikenard. 
The womb. Bettony, Squinanth or Sche- 
nanth, Sage, Orris or Flower-de-luce. 
The joints. Rosemary-flowers, Cowslips, 
Chamomel, Melilot. 
Flowers, as they are cooling, so they cool 
The head. Violets, Roses, the three sorts 
of Poppies, and Water-lilies. 
The breast and heart. Violets, Red Roses, 
Water-lilies. 
The stomach. Red Roses, Violets. 
The liver and spleen. Endive, and Suc- 
cory. 
Violets, Borrage, and Bugloss, moisten 
the heart, Rosemary-flowers, Bawm and 
Bettony, dry it. 
According to property, so they bind. 
Balaustins, Saffron, Succory, Endive, 
red-roses, Melilot, Bawm, Clove-gilli- 
flowers, Agnus Castus. 
Discuss. Dill, Chamomel, Marsh- 
mallows, Mallows, Melilot, Stowchas, &c. 
Cleanse. Damask-roses, Elder flowers, 
Bean flowers, &c. 
Extenuate. Orris, or Flower-de-luce, 
Chamomel, Melilot, Stoechas, &c. 
Mollify. Saffron, white Lilies, Mallows, 
Marsh-mallows, &c. 
Suppure. Saffron, white Lilies, &c. 
Glutinate. Balaustines, Centaury, &c. 
Provoke the terms. Bettony, Centaury, 
Chamomel, Schenanth, Wall-flowers, 
 Bawm, Peony, Rosemary, Sage. 
‘Stop the terms. Balaustines, or Pome- 
_ granate flowers, Water Lilies. 
ee Spe wind. Dill, Chamomel, Schoe- 
Resist poison. Bettony, Centaury. 
Ease pain. Dill, Chamomel, Centaury, 
Melilot, Rosemary. 
Flowers purge choler. 
Damask Roses, Violets. 
Flegm. Broom flowers, Elder flowers. 
If you compare but the quality of the 
flowers with the herbs, and with the expla- 
nation of these terms at the latter end, you 
may easily find the temperature suse pro- 
perty of the rest. 
The flowers of Ox-eye being boiled into 
a poultice with a little barley meal, take 
away swellings and hardness of the flesh, 
being applied warm to the place. 
Chamomel flowers heat, discuss, loosen 
and rarify, boiled in Clysters, they are ex- 
cellent in the wind cholic, boiled in wine, 
and the decoction drunk, purges the reins, 
break the stone, opens the pores, cast out 
choleric humours, succours the heart, and 
eases pains and aches, or stiffness coming 
by travelling. 
The flowers of Rocket used outwardly, 
discuss swellings, and dissolve hard tumors, 
you may boil them into a poultice, but in- 
wardly taken they send but unwholesome 
vapours up to the head. 
Hops open obstructions of the bowels, 
liver, and spleen, they cleanse, the body of 
choler and flegm, provoke urine. 
Jasmine flowers boiled in oil, and the 
grieved place bathed with it, takes away 
cramps and stitches in the sides. 
The flowers of Woodbine, or Honey- 
suckles, being dryed and beaten into pow- 
der, and a dram taken in white wine in the 
morning, helps the rickets, difficulty of 
breathing; provokes urine, and helps the 
stranguary. 
‘The flowers of Mallows being bruised 
and boiled in honey (two ounces of the 
flowers is sufficient for a pound of honey; 
Peach flowers, 
and haying first clarified the honey before 
you put them in) then strained out; this 
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