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the stomach, and is a certain remedy (saith j after-birth, procures an appetite to meat, 

 Tragus) to dissolve congealed or clotted land expels wind. The juice is good lo 

 blood in the body, or that which is clotted j heal the ulcers of the head and face ; the 

 by bruises, falls, &c. The juice or distilled j candied root hereof are held as effectual as 

 water thereof being drank, and the bruised | Angelica, to preserve from infection in the 

 leaves laid to the place, being taken either \ time of a plague, and to warm and corn- 

 in meat or drink, it is good to help to pro- 1 fort a cold weak stomach. It is so harm- 

 voke urine, or expel the stone in the kid- j less, you cannot use it amiss, 

 neys, to send down women's courses, and! CHESNUT T 



to help the pleurisy and pricking of the* 



IT were as needless to describe a tree so 

 commonly known as to tell a man he had 

 gotten a mouth ; therefore lake the govern- 



sides. 



The wild Chervil bruised and applied, 

 dissolves swellings in any part, or the 



rnarks of congealed blood by bruises or i ment and virtues of them thus : 



? mi i i . i 



blows, in a little space. 



SWEET CHERVIL, OR SWEET CICELY. 



The tree is abundantly under the do- 

 minion of Jupiter, and therefore the fruit 

 fin ust needs breed good blood, and yield 



Descnpt.~\ THIS grows very like the i commendable nourishment to the body; 

 great hemlock, having large spread leaves \ yet if eaten over-much, they make the 

 cut into divers parts, but of a fresher green \ blood thick, procure head ache, and bind 

 colour than the Hemlock, tasting as sweet j the body; the inner skin, that covers the 

 as the Anniseed. The stalks rise up a yard I nut, is of so binding a quality, that a 

 high, or better, being creased or hollow, j scruple of it being taken by a man, or ten 

 having leaves at the joints, but lesser ; and i grains by a child, soon stops any flux what- 

 at the tops of the branched stalks, umbels j soever : The whole nut being dried and 

 or tufts of while flowers; after which comes i beaten into powder, and a dram taken at 

 long crested black shining seed, pointed at a time, is a good remedy to stop the terms 

 both ends, tasting quick, yet sweet and Jin women. If you dry Chesnuts, (only the 

 pleasant. The root is great and white, j kernels I mean) both the barks being taken 

 growing deep in the ground, and spreading! away, beat them into powder, and make 

 sundry long branches therein, in taste and j the powder up into an electuary with honey, 

 smell stronger than the leaves or seeds, and j so have you an admirable remed} r for the 

 continuing many years. j cough and spitting of blood. 



Place.! This grows in gardens. 



n j -j T mu 11 EARTH CHESNUTS. 



Government ana vtrtttes.] Ihese are all; 



three of them of the nature of Jupiter, and j THEY are called Earth-nuts, Earlh 

 under his dominion. This whole plant, ; Chesnuts, Ground Nuts, Ciper-nuts, and in 

 besides its pleasantness in sallads, has its ; Sussex Pig-nuts. A description of them 

 physical virtue. The root boiled, and eaten \ were needless, for every child knows then . 

 with oil and vinegar, (or without oil) do \ Government and virtues.~\ They are some- 

 much please and warm old and cold sto- j thing hot and dry in quality, under the 

 machs oppressed with wind or phlegm, or 5 dominion of Venus, they provoke lust 

 those that have ihe phthisic or consump- j exceedingly, and stir up to those sports she 

 lion of the lungs. The same drank with Us mistress of; the seed is excellent good to 

 wine is a preservation from the plague. It \ provoke urine ; and so also is the root, but 

 provokes women's courses, and expels the ! it doth not perform it so forcibly as the seed 



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