$4 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Herb-Carpenter ; though in Essex we call * for those that are liver-grown (as they ca, 

 another herb by that name. jit.) It is wonderful in curing all manner o 



Descript.] This has larger leaves than ; ulcers and sores, whether new and fresh 

 those of the Self-heal, but else of the same {or old and inveterate; yea, gangrenes and 

 fashion, or rather longer ; in some green on j fistulas also, if the leaves bruised and ap- 

 the upper side, and in others more brown- j plied, or their juice be used to wash and 

 ish, dented about, the edges, somewhat hairy, \ bathe the place, and the same made into a 

 as the square stalk is also which rises up to j lotion, and some honey and alum cures 

 be half a yard high sometimes, with the j all sores in the mouth and gums, be they 

 leaves set by couples, from the middle j never so foul, or of long continuance ; ana 

 almost, whereof upwards stand the flowers, j works no less powerfully and effectually for 

 together with many smaller and browner 5 such ulcers and sores as happen in the 

 leaves than the rest, on the stalk below set ! secret parts of men and women. Being 

 at distance, and the stalk bare between \ also taken inwardly, or outwardly applied, 

 them ; among which flowers, are also small 5 it helps those that have broken any bone, 

 ones of a blueish and sometimes of an ash | or have any member out of joint. An 

 colour, fashioned like the flowers of Ground- i ointment made with the leaves of Bugle, 

 ivy, after which come small, round blackish Scabions and Sanicle bruised and boileil 

 seeds. The root is composed of many j in hog's grease, until the herbs be dry, and 

 strings, and spreads upon the ground. j then strained forth into a pot for such 



The white flowered Bugle differs not in 5 occasions as shall require; it is so singularly 

 form or greatness from the former, saving | good for all sorts of hurts in the body, that 

 that the leaves and stalks are always green, j none that know its usefulness will be with- 

 and never brown, like the other, and the > out it. 

 flowers thereof are white. j The truth is, I have known this herb cure 



PlaceJ] They grow in woods, copses, \ some diseases of Saturn, of which 1 thought 

 and fields, generally throughout England, i good to quote one. Many times such as 

 but the white flowered Bugle is not so j give themselves much to drinking are 

 plentiful as the former. ; troubled with strange fancies, strange sights 



Time.'] They flower from May until July, i in the nighttime, and some with voices, 

 aiuu in the mean time perfect their seed. las also with the disease Ephialtes, or the 

 The roots and leaves next thereunto upon | Mare. I take the reason of this to be 

 the ground abiding all the Winter. I (according to Fernelius) a melancholy 



Government and virtues^ This herb be- j vapour made thin by excessive drinking 

 longs to Dame Venus: If the virtues of it [ strong liquor, and so flies up and disturbs 

 make you fall in love with it (as they will | the fancy, and breeds imaginations like 

 if you be wise) keep a syrup of it to take; itself, viz. fearful and troublesome. Those 

 inwardly, an ointment and plaister of it 1 1 have know cured by taking only two 

 to use outwardly, always by you. Ispoonfui. of the syrup of this herb after 



The decoction of the leaves and flowers \ supper two hours, when you go to bed. 

 made in wine, and taken, dissolves the con- 1 But whether this does it by sympathy or 

 gea-ltd blood in those that are bruised in- j antipathy, is some doubt in astrology. I 

 wardly by a fall, or otherwise is very \ know there is great antipathy between 

 effectual for any inward wounds, thursts, j Saturn and Venus in matter of procreation ; 

 or stabs in the body or bowels ; and it is 5 yea, such a one, that the barrenness of 

 < n especial help in all wound-drinks, and 5 Saturn can be removed by none but Venus 



