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manifest heat, moderately drying and binding. It open, 

 eth and cleanseth the liver, helpeth the jaundice, and is 

 very beneficial to the bowels, healing all inward wounds, 

 bruises, hurts, and other distempers. The decoction of 

 the herb made with wine, and drank, is good against the 

 biting and stinging of serpents, and helps them that make 

 foul, troubled or bloody urine, and makes them void 

 ■water speedily. It also helpeth the colick, cleanseth the 

 breast, and rids away the cough. A draught of the de. 

 coction taken warm before the fit, first removes, and in 

 time rids away the tertian or quartern agues. The leaves 

 and seeds taken in wine, stays the bloody flux ; outwardly 

 applied, being stamped with old swine's grease, it helpeth 

 old sores, cancers, and inveterate ulcers, and draweth 

 forth thorns and splinters of wood, nails, or any other 

 such things gotten in tlie flesh. It helpeth to strengthen 

 the members that be out of joint ; and being bruised and 

 applied, or the juice dropped in it, helpeth foul and 

 imposthumed ears. 



The distilled water of the herb is good to all thesaid pur- 

 poses, either inward or outward, but a great deal weaker. 



It is a most admirable remedy for such whose lives are 

 annoyed either by heat or cold. The liver is the former 

 of blood, and blood the nourisher of the body, and 

 Agrimony a strengthener of the liver. 



I cannot stand to give you a reason in every herb, why 

 it cureth such diseases; but if you please to peruse my 

 judgment in the herb Wormwood, you shall find them 

 there, and it will be well worth your while to consider 

 it in every herb, you shall find them true throughout the 

 book. 



Water Agrimony. 1/ and s (h. d.2.) 



It is called, in some countries, Water Hemp, Bastard 

 Hemp, and Bastard Agrimony, Eupatorium, and Hepato- 

 rium, because it strengthens the liver. 



Descript.'] The root continues a long time^ having many 

 long slender strings. The stalk grows up about two feet 

 high, sometimes higher. They are of a dark purple colour. 

 The branches are many, growing at distances the one from 

 the other, the one from the one side of the stalk, the other 

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