to culpspkr'b oompleti hsrbal. 



cleauseth thick and tough humours of the breast, and for 

 this I hold it inferior to few herbs that grow ; it helps the 

 cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy, and 

 yellow jaundice ; it opens the obstructions of the liver, 

 mollifies the hardness of the spleen, being applied out- 

 wardly : it breaks imposthumes, taken inwardly : it pro- 

 vokes mine and the terms : it kills worms, and cleanseth 

 the body of sharp humours, which ai« the cause of itch and 

 scabs ; the herb being burnt, the smoke thereof drives 

 away flies, wasps, &c, ; It strengthens the lungs exceeding- 

 ly. Country people give it to their cattle when they are 

 troubled with the cough, or broken winded, 



ALEHOOP, o» GROUND-rVT.— ((y^ecAoma ffederaeea,) 



SwBKAL counties give it seyeral names, lo that there is 

 scarce an herb growing of that bigness, that has got so 

 many. It is called CatVFoot, Qround-ivy, Gill-go-by- 

 ground, Gill-creep-by-ground, Turn-hoof, Hay-Maids, 

 and Alehoof. 



Detcrip. — This well known herb lieth, spreadeth, and 

 creepeth upon the ground, shooteth forth roots at the ' 'or- 

 ners of tender jointed stalks, set with two round leaves at 

 every joints somewhat hairy, crumbled, and unevenly 

 dented about the hedges with round dents ; at the joints, 

 likewise, with the leaves towards the end of the branches, 

 oome forth hollow long flowers, of a blueish purple colour, 

 with small white spots upon the lips that hang down. The 

 root is small, with strincs. 



FUioe, — It is commonly found under hedges and on the 

 ■ides of ditches, under houses, or in shadowed lanes and 

 other waste lands in almost every part of the land. 



Time, — They flower somewhat early, and abide a great 

 while ; the leaves continue green until winter, and some- 

 times abide, except the winter be very sharp and cold. 



OovemmeTU and Virtues, — It is an herb of Venus, and 

 therefore cures the diseases she caises by sympathy, and 

 those of Mars by antipathy ; you may easily find it all the 

 year, except the year be extremely frosty ; it is quick, 

 sharp, and bitter in taste, and is therebv found to be hot 

 and dry ; a singular herb for all inward wounds, exulce- 

 rated lungs, or other parts, either by itself, or boiled with 

 other the like herbs ; and being drunk, in a short time it 

 easeth r11 griping pains, windy and choleric humours in 

 the ■toma<£, spleen or belly ; helpe the yellow jaondloe hj 



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