THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



hollow, long flowers, of a blucish purple ; out in any part of the body. The juice of 

 colour, with small white spots upon the lips | Celandine, Field-daisies, and Ground-ivy 

 that hang down. The root is small with | clarified, and a little fine sugar dissolved 

 strings. 5 therein, and dropped into the eyes, is a 



Place."] It is commonly found under j sovereign remedy for all pains, redness, and 

 hedges, and on the sides of ditches, under j watering of them ; as also for the pin and 

 houses, or in shadowed lanes, and other > weh. *kins and films growing over the sight 

 waste grounds, in almost every part of this; it helps beasts as well as men. The juice 

 land. ; dropped into the ears, Avonderfull.y helps 



Time.] They flower somewhat early, and i the noise and singing of them, and helps the 

 abide a great Avhile ; the leaves continue Shearing which is decayed. It is good to 

 green until Winter, and sometimes abide, tun up with new drink, for it will clarify it 

 except the Winter be very sharp and cold, in a night, that it will be the fitter to be 



Government and virtues.] It is an herb of j drank the next morning ; or if any drink 

 Venus, and therefore cures the diseases she! be thick with removing, or any other acci- 

 causes by sympathy, and those of Mars by : dent, it will do the like in a few hours 

 antipathy; you may usually find it all the 



ATT Y A "NT T4 T" "R 



year long except the year be extremely 



frosty ; it is quick, sharp, and bitter in taste, $ IT is called Alisander, Horse-parsley, and 

 and is thereby found to be hot and dry ; a | W T ild-parsley, and the Black Pot-herb ; the 

 singular herb for all inward wounds, exul-jseed of it is that which is usually sold in 

 cerated lungs, or other parts, either by itself, j apothecaries' shops for Macedonion Pars- 



or boiled with other the like herbs ; and \ 



ley-seed. 



being drank, in a short time it eases all < Descript.'] It is usually sown in all the 

 griping pains, windy and choleric humours j gardens in Europe, and so well known, that 

 in the stomach, spleen or belly; helps the jit needs no farther description, 

 yellow jaundice, by opening the stoppings \ Time.'] It flowers in June and July ; the 

 of the gall and liver, and melancholy, by j seed is ripe in August. 



opening the stoppings of the spleen ; ex- j Government and virtues."] It is an herb of 

 pels venom or poison, and also the plague ; j Jupiter, and therefore friendly to nature ; 

 it provokes urine and women's courses ; the j for it warms a cold stomach, and opens 

 decoction of it in wine drank for some time j a stoppage of the liver and spleen ; it is good 

 together, procures ease to them that are? to move woniens' courses, to expel the after- 

 troubled with the sciatica, or hip-gout: as j birth, to break wind, to provoke urine and 

 also the gout in hands, knees, or feet; if j helps the stranguary; and these things the 

 you put to the decoction come honey and i seeds will do likewise. If either of them 

 a little burnt allum, it is excellently good to j be boiled in wine, or being bruised and 

 gargle any sore mouth or throat, and to > taken in wine, is also effectual against the 

 wash the sores and ulcers in the privy parts \ biting of serpents. And you know what 

 of man or woman ; it speedily helps green \ Alexander pottage is good for, that you 

 wounds, being bruised and bound thereto. ! may no longer eat it out of ignorance but 

 The juice of it boiled with a little honey f out of knowledge, 

 and verdigrease, doth wonderfully cleanse ; 



C . , P J ,. THE BLACK ALDER-TREK. 



iistulas, ulcers, and stays the spreading or | 



eating of cancers and ulcers; it helps j Descript."] THIS tree seldom grows to 



the itch, scabs, wheals, and other breakings * any great bigness, but for the most part 



