38 colpbpbr's compubte herbal. 



pleasing ; tLej get a man a good stomach to his victuala, 

 Dy strengtheuing the attractive faculty which is under 

 Mars, as you may see more at large at the latter end of 

 my Ephemeris. The hair washed with the lye made 

 of ashes of the tree and water, will make it turn yel- 

 low, viz. of Mars own color. The fruit and rind of 

 the shrub, the flowers of broom and heath, or furze, 

 cleanse the body of choler by sympathy, as the flowers, 

 leaves, and bark of the peach tree do by antipathy ; be- 

 '*ause these are under Mars, that under Venus. 



BAELEY.— (iforcfet^wi Vulgare.) 



The continual usefulness hereof hath made all in general 

 BO acquainted herewith, that it is altogether needless to 

 describe it, several kinds hereof plentifully growing, be- 

 ing yearly sown in this land. The virtues thereof take as 

 foBoweth. 



Government and Virtues, — It is a notable plant of Sa- 

 turn ; if you view diligently its effects by sympathy and 

 antipathy, you may easily perceive a reason of them ; as 

 also why barley-bread is so unwholesome for melancholy 

 people. Barley, in all the parts and composition thereof, 

 except malt, is more cooling than wheat, and a little 

 cleansing ; and all the preparations thereof, as barley- 

 water and other things made thereof, do give great nour- 

 ishment to persons troubled with fevers, agues, and heats 

 in the stomach. A poultice made of barley-meal or flour 

 boiled in vinegar ana honey, and a few dried figs put in 

 them, dissolveth all hard imposthumes, and aosuageth 

 inflammations, being thereto applied : and being boiled 

 with melilot and camomile flowers, and some linseed, fe- 

 nugreek, and rue in powder, and applied warm, it easeth 

 pains in the side and stomach, and windiness of the 

 spleen. The meal of barley and flea-worts boiled in water 

 and made a poultice with honey and oil of lilies, and ap- 

 plied warm, cureth swellings under the ears, throat, neck, 

 and such like ; and a plaister made thereof with tar, wax, 

 and oil, helpeth the kind's evil in the throat ; boiled with 

 sharp vinegar into a poultice, and .'aid on hot, helpeth the 

 leprosy ; being boiled in red wine with pomegranate 

 rind, and myrtles, stayeth the lax or other flux of the 

 belly ; boiled with vinegar and quince, it easeth the pains 

 of the gout : barley flour, white salt, honey, and vinegar 

 mingled together taketh away the itch speedily and oar- 



