THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



also stays the overflowing of the women's j Time.'] They flower in June and July, 

 reds, as the white Elites stays the whites j and the seed is ripe shortly after, 

 in women. It is an excellent secret ; you | Government and virtues.^ They are all 

 cannot well fail in the use. They are all i three herbs of Jupiter and under Leo, all 

 under the dominion of Venus. ! great cordials, and great strengtheners of 



There is another sort of wild Elites like j nature. The leaves and roots are to very 

 the other wild kinds, but have long and j good purpose used in putrid and pestilential 

 spiky heads of greenish seeds, seeming by ; fevers, to defend the heart, and help to 

 the thick setting together to be all seed. j resist arid expel the poison, or the venom 



This sort the fishers are delighted with, 1 of other creatures : the seed is of the like 

 and it is good and usual bait ; for fishes i effects ; and the seed and leaves are good 

 will bite fast enough at them, if you have I to increase milk in women's breasts; the 

 wit enough to catch them when they bite, j leaves, flowers and seed, all or any of 



:them, are good to expel pensiveness and 



BOEAGE AND BUGLOss. ; melancholy; it helps to clarify the blood, 



iand mitigate heat in fevers. The juice 



THESE are so well known to the inhabi-jmade into a syrup prevails much to all 

 tants in every garden that I hold it needless j the purposes aforesaid, and is put, with other 

 to describe them. i cooling, opening and cleansing herbs to 



To these I may add a third sort, which! open obstructions, and help the yellow jaun- 

 is not so common, nor yet so well known, j dice, and mixed with Fumitory, to cool 

 and therefore I shall give you its name and ; cleanse, and temper the blood thereby ; it 

 description. 1 helps the itch, ringworms and tetters, or 



It is called Langue de Bceuf; but why i other spreading scabs or sores. The flowers 

 then should they call one herb by the name j candied or made into a conserve, are help- 

 of Bugloss, and another by the name Langue | ful in the former cases, but are chiefly used 

 de Bxuf? it is some question to me, seeing? as a cordial, and are good for those thai 

 one signifies Ox-tongue in Greek, and the j are weak in long sickness, and to comfort 

 other signifies the same in French. ! the heart and spirits of those that are in a 



Descript.~\ The leaves whereof are smaller -consumption, or troubled with often swoon- 

 than those of Bugloss but much rougher ; I ings, or passions of the heart. The distilled 

 the stalks rising up about a foot and a half i water is no less effectual to all the purposes 

 high, and is most commonly of a red colour; i aforesaid, and helps the redness and inflam- 

 the flowers stand in scaly round heads, j mations of the eyes, being washed there- 

 being composed of many small yellow \ with ; the herb dried is never used, but the 

 flowers not much unlike to those of Dan- ' green ; yet the ashes thereof boiled in 

 delion, and the seed flieth away in down I mead, or honied water, is available against 

 as that doth; you may easily know the | the inflammations and ulcers in the mouth 

 flowers by their taste, for they are very : or throat, to gargle it therewith ; the roots 

 hitter. j of Bugloss are effectual, being made into 



Placed] It grows wild in many places ; a licking electuary for the cough, and to 

 of this land, and may be plentifully found j condensate thick phlegm, and the rheuma- 

 near London, as between Rotherhithe and tic distillations upon the lungs. 

 Deptford, by the ditch side. Its virtues; 



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are held to be the same with Borage and j; 



Bugloss, only this is somewhat hotter 



IT is called Syanus, I suppose from the 



