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while under Jupiter; therefore take the j branches, being round bellied and open at 

 virtues of than apart, each by itself. The | the brims, and divided into two parts, the 

 white Beet much loosens the belly, and i uppermost being like a hood, and the lower- 

 is of a cleansing, digesting quality, and j most like a hip hanging down, of a dark 

 provokes urine. The juice of it opens 



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obstructions both of the liver and spleen, 



rt-d colour, which passing there comes in 

 their places small round heads with small 



and is good for the head-ache and swirn- points at the ends, wherein lie small and 



rnings therein, and turnings of the brain ; ! brownish seeds ; the root is a thick bush of 



and is effectual also against all venomous j strings and shreds, growing from the head. 



creatures; and applied to the temples,? Place.] It grows by the ditch side, 



stays inflammations in the eyes; it helps j brooks, and other water-courses, generally 



burnings, being used with oil, and with a \ through this land, and is seldom found far 



little alum put to it, is good for St. An- \ from the water-side. 



thony's fire. It is good for all wheals, \ Time.] It flowers about July, and the 



pushes, blisters, and blains in the skin : the! seed is ripe in August. 



herb boiled, and laid upon chilblains orj Government and virtues.] Water Betonv 



kibes, helps them. The decoction thereof 

 in water and some vinegar, heals the itch, 



is an herb of Jupiter in Cancer, and is ap- 

 propriated more to wounds and hurts in the 



if bathed therewith; and cleanses the head ; breasts than Wood Betony, which follows ; 

 of dandruff, scurf, and dry scabs, and does j It is an excellent remedy for sick hogs. It 

 much good for fretting and running sores, us of a cleansing quality. The leaves bruised 

 ulcers, and cankers in the head, legs, or. and applied are effectual for all old and filthy 



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other parts, and is much commended against i 

 baldness and shedding the hair. 



ulcers ; and especially if the juice of the 

 leaves be boiled with a little honey, and 



The red Beet is good to stay the bloody- j dipped therein, and the sores dressed there- 

 flux, women's courses, and the whites, and j with ; as also for bruises and hurts, whether 

 to help the yellow jaundice; the juice of \ inward or outward. The distilled water of 

 the root put into the nostrils, purges the j the leaves is used for the same purpose ; as 

 head, helps the noise in the ears, and the { also to bathe the face and hands spotted or 

 tooth-ache; the juice snuffed up the nose, { blemished, or discoloured by sun burning, 

 helps a stinking breath, if the cause lie in i I confess I do not much fancy distilled 

 the nose, as many times it does, if any bruise j waters, I mean such waters as are distilled 

 has been there : as also want of smell | cold ; some virtues of the herb they may 

 coming that way. j haply have fit were a strange thing else ;) 



WATFU FIFTOMV ' but ^ * am c ""^ 6 " 1 f > that being dis- 



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I tilled m a pewter still, as the vulgar and 

 CALLED also Brown-wort, and in York- 1 apish fashion is, both chemical oil and salt 



shire, Bishop's-leaves. '| is left behind unless you burn them, and 



Descript.] First, of the Water Betony, j then all is spoiled, water and all, which was 



which rises up with square, hard, greenish good for as little as cun be by such a dis- 



stalks, sometimes brown, set with broad | tillation. 



dark green leaves dented about the edges I 



with notches somewhat resemblingthe leaves j 



of the Wood Betony, but much larger too, i Descrtpt.] COMMON or Wood Betonv 



for the most part set at a joint The flowers j has many leaves rising from the root, 



are many, set at the tops of the stalks and* which are somewhat broad and round at 



