02 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



falls and blows; they are also used for rup- j dominion of Jupiter. It is of an opening 

 tures, and other inward burnings, with ; and cleansing quality, and therefore very 

 very good success. An ointment made j effectual for the obstructions of the liver 

 thereof doth wonderfully help all wounds | gall and spleen, and the diseases that arise 

 that have inflammations about them, or by j from them, as the jaundice and hypocon- 

 reason of moist humours having access unto I driac ; it opens the passages of the urine 

 hem, are kept long from healing, and such j both in young and old ; powerfully cleanses 

 are those, for the most part, that happen to j imposthumes and inward ulcers in the 

 joints of the arms or legs. The juice of j urinary passage, and by its drying and 

 them dropped into the running eyes *t' any, j temperate quality doth afterwards heal 

 doth much help them. I them ; for which purpose the decoction of 



I the roots or leaves in white wine, or the 



DANDELION, VULGARLY CALLED PISS- ! , , , .? 



leaves chopped as pot-herbs, with a few 

 I Alisanders, and boiled in their broth, are 



Descript.~\ IT is well known to have j very effectual. And whoever is drawing 

 many long and deep gashed leaves, lying j towards a consumption or an evil disposi- 

 on the ground round about the head of the I tion of the whole body, called Cachexia, 

 roots ; the ends of each gash or jag, on j by the use hereof for some time together, 

 both sides looking downwards towards the ; shall find a wonderful help. It helps also 

 roots ; the middle rib being white, which \ to procure rest and sleep to bodies dis- 

 being broken, yields abundance of bitter \ tempered by the heat of ague fits, or other- 

 milk, but the root much more; from among \ wise : The distilled water is effectual to 

 the leaves, which always abide green, arise? drink in pestilential fevers, and to wash the 

 many slender, weak, naked foot-stalks, > sores. 

 every one of them bearing at the top one | You see here what virtues this common 



large yellow flower, consisting of many 

 rows of yellow leaves, broad at the points, 



herb hath, and that is the reason the French 

 and Dutch so often eat them in the Spring; 



and nicked in with deep spots of yellow in \ and now if you look a little farther, you 

 the middle, which growing ripe, the green ! may see plainly without a pair of spec- 

 husk wherein the flowers stood turns itself j tacles, that foreign physicians are not so 

 down to the stalk, and the head of down j selfish as ours are, but more communicative 

 becomes as round as a ball : with long ! of the virtues of plants to people, 

 seed underneath, bearing a part of the | 



down on the head of every one, which j DARNEL. 



together is blown away with the wind, or 5 



may be at once blown away with one's j IT is called Jam and Wray ; in Sussex 

 mouth. The root growing downwards } they call it Crop, it being a pestilent enemy 

 exceedingly deep, which being broken off! among corn. 



within the ground, will yet shoot forth again, | DescriptJ] This has all the wmter long, 

 and will hardly be destroyed where it hath j sundry long, flat, and rough leaves, which, 

 once taken deep root in the ground. $when the stalk rises, which is slender and 



Place.~] It grows frequently in all mea-j jointed, are narrower, but rough still; on 

 dows and pasture-grounds. j the top grows a long spike, composed of 



Time.~\ It flowers in one place or other many heads set one above another, con- 

 almost all the year long. i taining two or three husks, with a sharp 



Government and i'rfr/es.] It is under the j but short beard of awns at the end ; the 



