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the spleen, the tooth ache, pains in the ears, red and water- 

 ing eyes. The decoction, with some honey added, is^ood 

 to stay gangrenes and fretting ulcers, and to wash those 

 that are subject to nits and lice. Its ashes heal bums and 

 scalda It helps the dropsy, arising from the hardness of 

 the spleen, ana therefore to drink out of cups made of the 

 wood is good for splenetic persons. It is helpful for me- 

 lancholy, and the black jaundice that arises tnerefrom. 



TANSY {C01AU0^,)—(Tannacetum Vulgare.) 



Ihterip. — The leaves are of a bright and pleasant green, 

 and a very fra^i^rant smell, not coarse as that of the garden 

 Tansy, but a pleasant aromatic. The stalk grows upright, 

 branchy, of a light green, and a yard high; the flowers are 

 large, of a bright yellow. The leaves are winged, the small 

 ones deeply cut in; and the root is of a dark brown colour. 



Place,— Thi% sort is most frequently found wild on high 

 grounds, and dry pastures. It is a perennial 



Time, — It blooms in July and August. 



Oovemmentand Virtues. — This is under Venus. It is an 

 agreeable bitter, a carminative, and a destroyer of worms, 

 for which a powder of the flowers should be taken from 

 six to twelve grains at night and morning. Care is re- 

 quired in collecting them, to obtain their virtue. Clip ofl" 

 a quantity of Tansy-flowers, before they are over- blown, 

 close to the stalk. This must be done in the middle of a 

 dry day ; spread them on the bottom of a hair-sieve turn- 

 ed upside down ; shake them often about, and let the wind 

 pan through them, but keep them from the sun, and thus 

 you may have them always. The leaves only are used, 

 \nd are astringent and vulnerary, good to stop all kinds of 

 fluxes and preternatural evacuations, to dissolve congealed 

 olood, to help those who are bruised by falls : outwardly 

 it is used as a cosmetic, to take off freckles, sun-burn, and 

 morphew ; as also in restringent gargarisms. The powder 

 of the herb taken in some of the distilled water, helps the 

 whites in women, but more especially if a little coral and 

 ivory in powder be put to it. It helps children that have 

 a rupture, if boiled in water and salt. If boiled in water 

 and drank, it eases the griping pains of the bowels, and ia 

 good for the sciatica and joint aches. The same boiled in 

 ▼iiMgar, with honey and alum, and gargled in the mouth, 

 • a l ea the tooth-ache, fastens loose teeth, helps the guma 

 that are sore, settles the palate of the mouth to ita plaei^ 



