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its weaker like. The same ointment is excellent good to 

 cleanse malignant and corroding ulcers. 



Garden Arrach. D. (c. m. 3.) 



It is also called Orach, and Arage, and is cultivated for 

 domestic uses. 



Descript.'} It is so commonly known to every house- 

 wife, it were labour lost to describe it. 



Place.] It is an annual, and, as its name implieSj raised 

 in gardens for the use of the kitchen. 



Time.'j It flo^^'ereth and scedcth from June to the end 

 of August. 



Government and Virtues.^ It is under the government 

 of the Moon ; in quality cold and moist like unto her. 

 It softeneth and looseneth the body of man being eaten, 

 and fortifieth the expulsive faculty in him. The herb, 

 whether it be bruised and applied to the throat, or boil- 

 ed, and in like manner applied, it matters not much, it 

 is excellent good forswellings in the throat; the best way 

 is to boil it, and having drunk the deco6tion inwardly, 

 apply the herb outwardly. The decodlion of it besides is 

 au excellent remedy for the yellow jaundice. 



Arrach, wild and stinking. ? and i)|, (c. m. 3.) 



Called also Vulvaria, from that part of the body upon 

 which the operation is most ; also Dogs Arrach, Goats 

 Arrach, and Stinking Motherwort, 



Descript.'] This hath small and almost round leaves, yet 

 a little pointed and without dent or cut, of a dusky mealy 

 colour, growing on the slender stalks and branches that 

 spread on the ground, with small ilowers in clusters set 

 with the leaves, and small seeds succeeding like the rest, 

 perishing yearly, and rising again with its own sowing. 

 It smells like rotten fish, or something worse. 



Place.'] It grows usually upon dunghills. 



Time.'] They flower in June and July, and their seed 

 is ripe quickly after. 



Government and Virtues.] Stinking Arrach is used as a 

 remedy to help women pained, and almost strangled with 

 the mother, by smelling to it j but inwardly taken there 



