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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



say the flowers never open but when the to the throat, or boiled, and in like manner 

 wind blows. Pliny is my author; if it > applied, it matters not much, it is excellently 

 be not so, blame him. The seed also (if it | good for swellings in the throat: the best 

 bears any at all) flies away with the wind. way, I suppose is to boil it, apply the 

 Place and Time.1 They are sown usually } herb outwardly : the decoction of it besides 



in the gardens of the curious, and flower in 

 the Spring-time. As for description I shall 



is an excellent remedy for the yellow jaun 

 dice. 



ARRACH, WILD AND STINKING. 



pass it, being well known to all those that 

 sow them. 



Government and virtues."] It is under the { 



dominion of Mars, being supposed to be a! CALLED also Vulvaria, from that part 01 

 kind of Crow-foot. The leaves provoke j the body, upon which the operation is most ; 

 the terms mightily, being boiled, and the * also Dog's Arrach, Goat's Arrach, and 

 decoction drank. The body being bathed \ Stinking Motherwort. 

 with the decoction of them, cures the leprosy, i DescriptJ] This has small and almost 

 The leaves being stamped and the juice : round leaves, yet a little pointed and with- 

 snuffed up in the nose, purges the head; out dent or cut, of a dusky mealy colour, 

 mightily; so does the root, being chewed in ii growing on the slender stalks and branches 

 the mouth, for it procures much spitting, | that spread on the ground, with small 

 and brings away many watery and phleg- j flowers set with the leaves, and small seeds 

 matic humours, and is therefore excellent j succeeding like the rest, perishing yearly 



for the lethargy. And when all is done, 

 let physicians prate what they please, all 

 the pills in the dispensatory purge not the 

 head like to hot things held in the mouth. 

 Being made into an ointment, and the eye- 

 lids anointed with it, it helps inflammations 

 of the eyes, whereby it is palpable, that every 

 stronger draws its weaker like. The same 

 ointment is excellently good to cleanse ma- 

 lignant and corroding ulcers. 



GARDEN ARRACH. 



tage 



and rising again with its own sowing. It 

 smells like rotten fish, or something worse. 

 P/ace.] It grows usually upon dunghills. 

 Time.~] They flower in June and July, 

 and their seed is ripe quickly after. 



Government and virtues.^ Stinking Arrach 

 is used as a remedy to women pained, and 

 almost strangled with the mother, by smell- 

 ing to it ; but inwardly taken there is no 

 \ better remedy under the moon for that dis- 

 ] ease. I would be large in commendation 

 t of this herb, were I but eloquent. It is an 

 it is j herb under the dominion of Venus, and un- 

 der the sign Scorpio ; it is common almost 

 upon every dunghill. The works of God 



Called also Orach, and 

 cultivated for domestic uses. 



Descript.~\ It is so commonly known to 



every housewife, it were labour lost to de- are freely given to man, his medicines are 

 scribe it. common and cheap, and easily to be found. 



Time."] It flowers and seeds from June \ I commend it for an universal medicine for 

 to the end of August. J the womb, and such a medicine as will 



Government and virtues.'] It is under the j easily, safely, and speedily cure any disease 

 government of the Moon ; in quality cold j thereof, as the fits of the moiher, disloca- 

 and moist like unto her. It softens andjtion, or falling out thereof; cools the 

 loosens the body of man being eaten, | womb being over-heated. And let me fell 

 and fortifies the expulsive faculty in him. j you this, and I will tell you the truth, heat 

 The herb, whether it be bruised and applied 'of the womb is one of the greatest causes 



