192 Ot7LPI5PK1l'« OOMPLBTIt HERBAL. 



So^vler, taken in drink, kills worms in the body, brings 

 own womens' courses, and expels urine. A syrup made 

 of the juice and sugar, cures the yellow jaundice, eases the 

 head-ache that comes of heat, and tempers the heat of the 

 liver and stomach, and is profitable given in long and hot 

 agues that arise from choier and blood. The young hop 

 sprouts, which appear in March and April being mild, if 

 Doiled and served up like asparagus, are a very wholesome 

 as well as a pleasant tasted spring food. They purify the 

 blood, and keep the body gently open. 



H0REH0UND.--(^i/iirw6twm Vulgcure.) 



Descrip. — Common Horehound grows up with square 

 hairy stalks, half a yard or two feet high, set in the joints 

 with two crumpled rough leaves of a sullen hoary greeii 

 colour, of a good scent but a bitter taste. The flowers are 

 smalL white, and gaping, set in a rough hard prickly husk 

 round about the joints, with the leaves from the middle of 

 the stalk upward, wherein afterward is found small round 

 blackish seed. The root is blackish, hard and woody, with 

 many strings ; and abides many years. 



Place, — It is found in waste dry grounds in England, 



Time, — It flowers in July, the se^ is ripe in August. 



Oovemment and Virtvss. — It is an herb of Mercury. A 

 decoction of the dried herb, with the seed, or the juice of 

 the green herb taken with honey, is a good remedy for a 

 cough, or consumption. It helps to expectorate tough 

 phlegm from the coest, being taken with the roots. It is 

 given to women to bring down their courses, to expel the 

 afterbirth, and to them that have sore and lon^ travails ; 

 aa also to persons who have taken poison. The leaves used 

 with honey, purge foul ulcers, stay running and creeping 

 sores, and the growing of the flesh over the nails. It also 

 helps pains in the sides. The juice, with wine and honey, 

 helps to clear the eyesight, and snuffed up the nostrils, it 

 purges away the yellow jaundice ; and, with oil of roses, 

 dropped into the ears, eases the pains of them. It opens 

 obstructions both of the liver and spleen, and used out- 

 wardly it cleanses the chest and lungs. A decoction of 

 Horehound is available for those that have hard livers, or 

 those who have the itch or running tetters. The powder 

 taken, or the decoction, kills worms ; the green leaves 

 bruised, and boiled in ho^*s-grease into an ointment, heals 

 the bites of dogs, abates trie swollen part and pains which 



