234 CITLPBPEB'S COMPLETE HERBAL. 



has a bindiDg, drying quality; the jnioe taken in rinegar, 

 itays bleeding, stirs up venery, or bodily lust ; two or 

 ^hree branches taken in the juice of four pomegranates, 

 stays the hiccough, vomiting, and allays the chbler. It dis- 

 solves imposthumes, being laid to with barley-meal. It is 

 good to repress the milk in womens' breasts. Applied with 

 salt, it helps the bites of mad dogs : with meaa or honey- 

 ed water, it eases the pains of the ears, and takes away 

 the roughness of the tongue, being rubbed thereupon. It 

 suffers not milk to curdle in the stomach, if the leaves be 

 steeped or boiled in it before being drunk ; it is very pro- 

 fitable to the stomach. Often using it will stay womens' 

 courses and the whites. Applied to the forehead and tem- 

 ples, it eases the pains in the head, and is good to wash 

 the heads of young children with, against ail manner of 

 breakings out, sores or scabs, and heals the chops in the 

 fundament. It is also profitable against the poison of ven- 

 omous creaturea The distilled water of mint is available 

 for all the purposes aforesaid, yet more weakly. But if a 

 spirit thereof oe chemically drawn, it is more powerful 

 tnan the herb. It helps a cold liver, strengthens the belly, 

 causes digestion, stays vomiting and the hiccough ; it is 

 good agamst the gnawing of the heart, provokes appetite, 

 takes away obstructions of the liver, but too mucn must 

 not be taken, because it makes the blood thin, and tuns it 

 into choler, therefore choleric persons must abstain from 

 it. The dried powder taken after meat, helps digestion, and 

 those that are splenetia Taken in wine, it helps women 

 in their sore travail in child-bearing. It is good against 

 the gravel and stone in the kidneys, and the strangury. 

 Being smelled unto, it is comforting to the head. The de- 

 coction gargled in the mouth, cures the mouth and gumi 

 that are sore, and amends an ill-favoured breath. Mint is 

 an herb that is useful in all disorders of the stomach, as 

 weakness, squeamishness, loss of appetite, pain, and vomit- 

 ing ; it is likewise very good to stop gonorrhcea, the flu or 

 albus, and the immoderate flow of the menses; a cataplasm 

 of the green leaves applied to the stomach, stays vomiting, 

 and to womens' breasts, prevents the hardness and curd- 

 ing of the milk. A decoction is good to wash the hands 

 of children when broken out with scabs and blotches. 



Officinal preparations of Mint are, a simple water and 

 spirit, a compound spirit, and a distilled oiL 



