Li s. 3 



Of the Hifloric of PI 



97 



«7 



rfct wood-bindeor Hony-fucklc is called Feridymenum ftans, and A 

 Wood-binde : oi Dodoitws, Xylefteum : in high Dutch, ^OtlDjibtrfefl 



ed Chem&ccrak 



■ »>», or 



Canum 



<|J 7& Temperature and Venues. 



Wood 



at all our felues,neither hauc we learned any thing of others. 



i 





Chap, io 



Sena folijs ebtups 



Italian Scne. 



Of Scne. 



f 7A* Defcripitn. 



Ene bringeth forth (hikes a cubit high, fee 

 with diuers branches : the Icaues arc long, 

 winged, confifting of many fmall Icaucs 

 like thofe of Liquorice, or of baftard Sencithc 

 floures corac forth of the bottom of the wings, 

 of colour yellow, (landing vpon (lender foot* 

 ftalkes- from which after the floures be gone 

 hang forked cods,thc fame bowing inward like 

 ahalfe-Moonc,pIain and flat,in which are con- 

 tained feeds like to the feeds or kernels of 

 grapes, of ablackifh colour. The root is (len- 

 der, long, and vnpfofitable, which periflicth 

 when the leaues are gathered for medicine* anH 



the feeds be ripe and muft be fownc againc the 

 next ycare,euen as we docorne. 



thi 



rowing in 



Italy,like the other in each refpeft fauing that 

 it is greater,and bath not that force in purging 

 that the other hath. 



^[ ihePUceandTimc. 



This is planted in Syriaand -<Egypt, alfo in 

 Italy,in Prouince,in France,in Languedoc. Ic 

 hardly groweth in high and low Gcrmany,nei- 

 tber in England rit profpercth in hot Regions, 

 and cannot away with cold 5 for that caufc it is 

 in Italy fowne in May, and continucth no lon- 

 ger than Autumne :thc bed is brought from 

 Alexandria and Egypt.Thc Arabians were the 

 firft that found it our. 



f The Names. 



The Perfians call it x^hd^emer, as <JK efue his copy teacheth : the Apothecaries Sena, by which 

 name it was knowne to ^cluarius the Grecian, and to the later Latines : it is called in Englifh, 



% The Temperature, 



Sene is ofameane temperature, neither hot nor cold, yet inclining to heate, and dry almoft in 

 we tlurd degree : it is of a purging faculty, and that by the ftoole, in fuch fort as it is not much 

 "oublefome to mans nature, hauing withall a certaine binding quality, which it leaueth after the 



purging. 



^f The Vertnts. 



Jtvoideth forth flegmaticke and Gholerickehumors,alfogro(TeandmeIancholike,ifitbehcl- A 

 P?d with fomething tending to that end. ' 



Jt is a lingular purging medicine in many difcafes.fit for all ages and kindes. 



B 



or orfcer like C 



it purgeth without violence or hurt, efpccially if it be tempered with Anife feed 

 weet fmelling things added or with gentle purgers or lenitiue medicines. It may be ghten in pou- 

 « eT ,Dut commonly the infufion thercofis vfed. 



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