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cleanse the stomach of gross and tough j also the pains and noise in the ears, and 

 phlegm, and choler therein ; it helps the I the stench of the nostrils. The root itself, 

 jaundice and the dropsy, evacuating those! either green or in powder, helps to cleanse, 

 humours both upwards and downwards ;j heal, and incarnate wounds, and lo cover 

 and because it somewhat hurts the stomach, | the naked bones with flesh again, that 

 is not lo be taken without honey and spike-? ulcers have made bare; and is also very 

 nard. The same being drank, doth ease \ good to cleanse and heal up fistulas and 

 the pains and torments of the belly and I cankers that are hard to be cured, 

 sides, the shaking of agues, the diseases of? 



,, r ,, & ,.., , ,, : FLUELLIN, OR LLUELLIN. 



the liver and spleen, the worms of the beily, : 



the stone in the reins, convulsions and j Descript.~\ IT shoots forth many long 

 cramps that come of old humours; it also j branches partly lying upon the ground, 

 helps those whose seed passes from them | and partly standing upright, set with al- 

 unawares : It is a remedy against the ; most red leaves, yet a little pointed, and 

 bitings and stingings of venomous crea- \ sometimes more long than round, without 

 tures, being boiled in water and vinegar j order thereon, somewhat hairy, and of an 

 and drank. Boiled in water and drank, it j evil greenish white colour; at the joints all 

 provokes urine, helps the cholic, brings | along the stalks, and with the leaves come 

 down women's courses ; and made up into J forth small flowers, one at a place, upon 

 a pessary with honey, and put up into the \ a very small short foot-stalk, gaping some- 

 body, draws forth the dead child. It is ] what like Snap-dragons, or rather like Toad- 

 much commended against the cough, to ; flax, with the upper jaw of a yellow colour, 

 expectorate rough phlegm ; it much eases \ and the lower of a purplish, with a small heel 

 pains in the head, and procures sleep ; | or spur behind ; after which come forth 

 being put into the nostrils it procures { small round heads, containing small black 

 sneezing, and thereby purges the head of \ seed. The root is small and thready, dying 

 phlegm. The juice of the root applied to 5 every year, and rises itself again of its 

 the piles or hemorrhoids, gives much ease. \ own sowing. 



The decoction of the roots gargled in the | There is another sort of Lluellin which 

 mouth, eases the tooth-ache, and helps the j has longer branches wholly trailing upon 

 stinking breath. Oil called Oleum Irinum, | the ground, two or three feet long, and 

 if it be rightly made of the great broad \ somewhat more thin, set with leaves there- 

 flag Flower-de-luce and not of the great j on, upon small foot stalks. The leaves are 

 bulbous blue Flower-de-luce, (as is used by j a little larger, and somewhat round, and 

 some apothecaries) and roots of the same, of | cornered sometimes in some places on the 

 the flaggy kinds, is very effectual to warm \ edges ; but the lower part of them being 

 and comfort all cold joints and sinews, as \ the broadest, hath on each side a small 

 also the gout and sciatica, and mollifies, i point, making it seem as if they were ears, 

 dissolves and consumes tumours and swell- sometimes hairy, but not hoary, and of a 



ings in any part of the body, as also of the 

 matrix ; it helps the cramp, or convulsions 



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better green colour than the former. The 

 flowers come forth like the former, but the 



of the sinews. The head and temples \ colours therein are more white than yellow, 

 anointed therewith, helps the catarrh or j and the purple not so far. It is a large 

 thin rheum distilled from thence ; and used | flower, and so are the seed and seed-ves- 

 upon the breast or stomach, helps to ex- ! sels. The root is like the other, and 

 tenuate the cold tough phlegm ; it helps I perishes every year. 



