80 THE COMPLETE HERBAL. 



ur rather boiled and applied like a poultice { be exceeding great, with many long twinrs 

 are excellent good to unite broken bones 5 or branches going from it, of a pale whitish 

 and strengthen joints that have been put ; colour on the outside, and more white 

 out. The decoction of either leaves or t within, and of a sharp, bitter, loathsome 

 roots being drank, and the decoction of j taste. 



leaves applied to the place, is excellent \ Place.~\ It grows on banks, or under 

 good for the king's evil that is broken and : hedges, through this land ; the roots lie 

 runs ; for by the influence of the moon, : very deep. 



it revives the ends of the veins which are I TimeJ] It flowers in July and August, 

 relaxed. There is scarce a better remedy to j some earlier, and some later than the other. 

 be applied to such places as are burnt with ;' Government and -virtues^] They are furious 

 fae than this is, for it fetches out the fire, ! martial plants. The root of Briony purges 

 and heals it without a scar. This is an \ the belly with great violence, troubling the 

 excellent remedy for such as are bursten, j stomach and burning the liver, and there- 

 being either taken inwardly, or applied to j fore not rashly to be taken ; but being cor- 

 the place. In like manner used, it helps ; rected, is very profitable for the diseases 

 the cramp and the gout. It is excellently |of the head, as falling sickness, giddiness, 

 good in hectic fevers, and restores radical i and swimmings, by drawing away much 

 moisture to such as are in consumptions, ! phlegm and rheumatic humours that op- 



press the head, as also the joints and 



BRIONY, OR WILD VINE. i *u r j c i 



smews ; and is therefore good for palsies, 



IT is called Wild, and Wood Vine, Tarnus, 

 or Ladies' Seal. The white is called White 



convulsions, cramps, and stitches in the 

 sides, and the dropsy, and for provoking 



Vine by some ; and the black, Black Vine. : urine ; it cleanses the reins and kidneys 

 DescriptJ] The common White Briony | from gravel and stone, by opening the ob- 

 grows ramping upon the hedges, sending j structions of the spleen, and consumes the 

 forth many long, rough, very tender : hardness and swelling thereof. The de- 

 branches at the beginning, with many very i coction of the root in wine, drank once a 

 rough, and broad leaves thereon, cut (for j week at going to bed, cleanses the mother, 

 the most part) into five partitions, in form j and helps the rising thereof, expels the 

 very like a vine leaf, but smaller, rough, and j dead child ; a dram of the root in powder 

 of a whitish hoary green colour, spreading j taken in white wine, brings down their 

 very far, spreading and twining with his > courses. An electuary made of the roots 

 small claspers (that come forth at the joints i and honey, doth mightily cleanse the chest 

 with the leaves) very far on whatsoever ; of rotten phlegm, and wonderfully help 

 stands next to it. At the several joints any old strong cough, to those that are 

 also (especially towards the top of the \ troubled with shortness of breath, and is 

 branches) comes forth a long stalk bearing! good for them that are bruised inwardly, to 

 many whitish flowers together on a long? help to expel the clotted or congealed blood, 

 tuft, consisting of five small leaves a-piece, | The leaves, fruit, and root do cleanse old 

 laid open like a star, after which come the j and filthy sores, are good against all fret- 

 berries separated one from another, more ; ting and running cankers, grangrenes, and 

 than a cluster of grapes, green at the first, | tetters, and therefore the berries are by 

 and very red when they are thorough ripe, : some country people called tetter-berries. 

 of no good scent, but of a most loathsome \ The root cleanses the skin wonderfully 

 taste provokes vomit. The root grows to j from all black and bjue spots, freckles, 



