OtrLPBPIR'S OOMPLBTS HBRBAL. 86fr 



oanoet of the juice taken at a time, wonderf ullj helps stop- 

 ping of the urine, and expels the stone or gravel in the kid- 

 neys or bladder, and is put among other herbs used in clys- 

 ters to mitigate pains in the back, sides, or bowels, pro- 

 ceeding from wind. If the bruised herb, sprinkled with 

 some muscadel, be warmed upon a few quick coals in acha- 

 ting-dish, and applied to the belly, it works the same effect. 

 The decoction, if drunk, eases pains of the mother, brings 

 down the courees, and griefs from obstructions of the liver, 

 spleen, and reins. With a little honey added, the decoction 

 ii also good to gargle a sore throat The juice held in the 

 mouth, eases the pains of the teeth. The distilled water, if 

 drunk with sugar, works the same effect, and cleanses the 

 skin from «pot3, freckles,, pimples, wheals, sunburn, mor- 

 phew, &c. The juice dropped into the ears, eases the nois« 

 in them, and takes away the prickling and shooting pains 

 therein; the same, or the distilled water, assuages hot and 

 ■welling imposthumes, bums and scalds, and all hot tumours 

 and inflammations, and breakings out of heat, if often bath- 

 ed with it ; the juice made into a liniment with ceruse, and 

 oil of loses, and anointed therewith, cleanses foul rotten 

 ulcers, stays spreading ulcers, and running scabs or sores 

 in child reus' heads ; and helps to stay the hair from falling 

 off. The said ointment, or the herb applied to the funda- 

 ment, opens the piles, and eases the pains ; mixed with 

 goat's tallow, it helps the gout ; the juice is very effectual 

 to cleanse fistulas, and to heal them ; or the herb bruised, 

 and aoplied with a little salt. It is effectual to heal green 

 wounas, if bruised and bound thereto three days. A poul- 

 tice made with mallows, and boiled in wine and wheat oran 

 and bean-flour, and some oil put thereto, and applied warm 

 to any bruised sinew, tendon, or muscle, in a short time re- 

 stores them, taking away the pains of the bruises or blows. 

 The juice clarified and boiled in a syrup with honey, and a 

 spoonful drank every morning is ^ood for the dropsy ; by 

 taking the dose once a week, that disease will be cured. 



PENNY-ROYAL.— ('J^enrAa Pvlegium,) 



Detcrip. — It has many creeping fibrous roots, from which 

 spring many smooth roundish stalks, slender, leaning to the 

 ground, sending out small fibres, by which it roots itself in 

 the ground. It bears two small, round, pointed leaves, at a 

 joint ; the flowers grow towards the upf)er part of the 

 Drmnches, coming forth just above the leaves in thick close 



