S94 OirLPXPEB'S CM>MPLETB HEBBAL. 



cleansing the stomach, liver, and blood, it opens obstruc. 

 tions, and helps those diseases that come thereof, as the jaun* 

 dice, dropsy, swelling of the spleen, tertian and daily agues, 

 and pains in the sides. It also stays spitting of blood. The 

 powder taken with cassia dissolved, and washed Venice tur- 

 pentine, cleanses the reins, and strengthens them, and is 

 effectual to stay gonorrhoea. It is also taken for pains and 

 swellings in the head, and melancholy, and helps the sciati- 

 ca, gout, and cramp. The powder taken with a little mum- 

 mia and madder roots in red wine, dissolves clotted blood 

 in the body, which comes by falls or bruises, and helps all 

 burstings and broken parts, as well inward as outward. It 

 ia useful to heal those ulcers that happen in the eyes or eye- 

 lids, if steeped and strained; as also to lessen the swellings 

 and inflammations; and applied with honey, boiled in wine, 

 it takes away all blue spots or marks that happen therein. 

 Whey or white wine are the best liauors to steep it in, and 

 thereby it more effectually opens oostructions and purees 

 the stomach. Indian spikenard is the best corrector of it. 



RICE.— (Oryza ScUiva.) 



Ths foreign plant which produces this useful grain has no 

 medicinal virtues, a description of it is therefore unnecessary. 



Place. — It grows very plentifully in the East Indies, all 

 through Ethiopia, Africa, Syria, Es^ypt, Italy, &c. 



Time, — It is ripe about the middle of autumn ; in some 

 places it yields two crops a year. 



Cfovemment and Virtues. — It is a Solar grain, and it stays 

 laxes and fluxes of the stomach and belly, especially if it be 

 parched before it is used, and hot steel quenched in the milk 

 wherein it is boiled, bein^ somewhat drying and binding. 

 The flour of the rice has tne same property, and is put into 

 cataplasms to repel humours from flowing to the place, and 

 also to womens' oreasts to stay inflammations. 



EOCEJET CRESS {ANmJAJj.y-{Hesperi8 Matronalit.) 



Descrip. — This plant is sometimes improp)erly called Cres- 

 ling. The root is slender, long, hard, furnished with many 

 fibres : the first leaves are numerou^ long* and irregularly 

 divided in the pinnated manner, with a pointed odd seg- 

 ment at the end. The stalks are numerous, round, upright, 

 and the leaves stand on them irregularly ; they resemble 

 those from the root, but they are more deeply ^vided, and 



