48 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



doth. The root being dried and beaten ; the swellings and ease the pain". It helps 

 into powder, and the powder made into n j the sinews when they are shrunk by cramps, 

 electuary, is as singular a remedy for spitting or otherwise, and to extend and make them 

 and pissing of blood, as the former Chesnut ; pliable again by this medicine. Boil a 

 was for coughs. j handful of Chickweed, and a handful of 



I red rose leaves dried, in a quart of musca- 



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: dine, until a fourth part be consumed; 



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the several kinds, since but only two or i anoint the grieved place therewith, warm 

 three are considerable for their usefulness. | against the fire, rubbing it well with one 



Place. J They are usually found in moist; hand": and bind also some of the herb (if 

 and watery places, by wood sides, and else- 5 you will) to the. place, and, with God's 

 where. ! blessing, it will help it in three times 



TimeJ] They flower about June, and 1 dressing, 

 their seed is ripe in July. 



n , -\ -r. c c.\ CHICK-PEASE, Oil CICERS. 



Government a/id virtues.] It is a fine soft! 



pleasing herb under the dominion of the J Descript.~\ THE garden sorts, whether 

 Moon. It is found to be effectual as | red, black, or white, bring forth stalks a 

 Purslain to all the purposes whereunto it j yard long, whereon do grow many small 

 serves, except for meat only. The herb \ and almost round leaves, dented about the 

 bruised, or the juice applied (with cloths or j edges, set on both sides of a middle rib ; 

 - sponges dipped therein) to the region of the j At the joints come forth one or two flowers, 

 liver, and as they dry, to have it fresh ap- 5 upon sharp foot stalks, pease-fashion, either 

 plied, doth wonderfully temperate the heat j white or whitish, or purplish red, lighter 

 of the liver, and is effectual for all impos-|or deeper, according as the pease that 

 thumes and swellings whatsoever, for all j follow will be, that are contained in small, 

 redness in the face, wheals, pushes, itch, thick, and short pods, wherein lie one or 

 scabs; the juice either simply used, or j two pease, more usually pointed at the 

 boiled with hog's grease and applied, helps j lower end, and almost round at the head, 

 cramps, convulsions, and palsy. The juice, : yet a little cornered or sharp; the root is 

 or distilled water, is of much good use for; small, and perishes yearly, 

 all heats and redness in the eyes, to drop $ Place and Time.^ They are sown in gar 

 some thereof into them; as also into the j dens, or fields as pease, being sown later 

 ears, to ease pains in them ; and is of good ; than pease, and gathered at the same time 

 effect to ease pains from the heat and sharp- 1 with them, or presently after, 

 ness of the blood in the piles, and generally \ Government and virtues^] They are both 

 all pains in the body fhat arise of heat. under the dominion of Venus. They are 

 It is used also in hot and virulent ulcers j less windy than beans, but nourish more; 

 and sores in the privy parts of men and \ they provoke urine, and are thought to in- 

 women, or on the legs, or elsewhere. The : crease sperm; they have a cleansing faculty, 

 leaves boiled with marsh-mallows, and \ whereby they break the stone in the kid 

 made into a poultice with fenugreek and i neys. To drink the cream of them, being 

 linseed, applied to swellings or impos-j boiled in water, is the best way. It moves 

 thumes, ripen and break them, or assuage > the belly downwards, provokes women's 



