culpbpeb'b complete herbal. 73 



Ocpemment and Virtues, — It is an herb of Mercury, 

 and a strong one too, therefore excellent good in all afflic- 

 tions of the brain ; the decoction of the herb being drank 

 bringeth down women's courses, and provoketh urine : 

 it is profitable for those thai have ruptures, or troubled 

 with convulsions or cramps, with shortness of breath or 

 choleric torments and pains in their bellies or stomach : 

 it also helpeth the yellow jaundice, and stayeth vomiting 

 being taken in wine : taken with salt and honey it killeth 

 all manner of wounds in the body. It helpeth such aa 

 have the leprosy, either taken inwardly, drinking whey 

 after it, or the green herb outwardly applied : it binder- 

 eth conception in women ; but either burnt or strewed in 

 a chamber it driveth away venomous serpents ; it takes 

 away black and blue marks in the face, and maketh black 

 scars become well coloured, if the green herb (not the 

 dry) be boiled in wine and laid to the place, or the place 

 washed therewith. Being applied to tne buckle-bone, by 

 coDtinuance of time it spends the humours which canseth 

 the pain of the sciatica : the juice being dropped into the 

 ears, killeth the worms in them ; the leaves boiled in 

 wine, and drank, provoke sweat, and open obstructions 

 of the liver and spleen. It helpeth them that have a 

 tertian ague (the body bein^f nrst purged), by taking 

 away the cold fits ; the decoction hereof, with some sugar 

 put thereto afterwards, is very profitable for those that 

 are troubled with the overflowing of the gall, and that 

 have an old cou^h, and that are scarce able to breathe by 

 shortness of their wind, that have .ny cold distemper in 

 their bowels, and are troubled with the hardness of the 



Spleen, for all which purposes both the powder, called 

 iacaluminthee, and compound syrup of calamint (which 

 are to be had at the apotnecaries) are the most effectual. 

 Let not women be too busy with it, for it works very 

 violently upon the feminine part 



CAMOMILE.— (^fUAwiw JToWZm.) 



It is to weU known every where, that it is but lost time 

 and labour to describe it ; the virtues thereof are a« 

 followeth. 



A decoction made of camomile, taketh away all pains 

 and stitches in the side : the flowers of camomile beaten 

 and made up into balls with oil, drive away all sorts of 

 ag«e% if the part grieved be anointed with that (H^ 



