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point at it, wherein is contained seed as j it may be se.en many months in the year, 



small as dust. ! both green and in flower, and seed ; for it 



Place.'] It grows seldom in fields, but ; will spring and &eed twice in a year at 



frequent in the woods northwards, viz. in 'least, if it be suffered in a garden. 



Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Scotland. | Place."] They grow almost every where, 



Time.'] It flowers about June and July, fas well on tops of walls, as at the foot, 

 Government and virtues."] Winter-green \ amongst rubbish and untilled grounds, but 



is under the dominion of Saturn, and is a especially in gardens. 



singularly good wound herb, and an espe- 

 cial remedy for healing green wounds 



Time.'] It flowers, as was said before, al- 

 most every month throughout the year. 



speedily, the green leaves being bruised and ; ' Government and virtues."] This herb is 

 applied, or the juice of them. A salve I Venus's mistress-piece, and is as gallant 

 made of the green herb stamped, or the j and universal a medicine for all diseases 

 juice boiled with hog's lard, or with salad j coining of heat, in what part of the body 

 oil and wax, and some turpentine added j soever they be, as the sunshines upon; it is 

 to it, is a sovereign salve, and highly ex- ( very safe and friendly to the body of man: 

 tolled by the Germans, who use it to heal j yet causes vomiting if the stomach be af- 

 all manner of wounds and sores. The herb J flicted ; if not, purging : and it doth it with 

 boiled in wine and water, and given to I more gentleness than can be expected; it is 

 drink to them that have any inward ulcers j moist, and something cold Avithal, thereby 

 in their kidneys, or neck of the bladder, causing expulsion, and repressing the heat 

 doth wonderfully help them. It stays all 1 caused by the motion of the internal parts 

 fluxes, as the lask, bloody fluxes, women's s in purges and vom-its. Lay by our learned 

 courses, and bleeding of wounds, and takes ; receipts ; take so much Sena, so much 

 away any inflammations rising upon pains | Scammony, so much Colocynlhis, so much 

 of the heart ; it is no less helpful for foul i infusion of Crocus Metallorum, &c. this 

 ulcers hard to be cured ; as also for cankers | herb alone preserved in a syrup, in a dis- 

 or fistulas. The distilled water of the herb tilled water, or in an ointment, shall do 

 effectually performs the same things. j the deed for you in all hot diseases, and, 



* shall do it, 1, Safely ; 2, Speedily. 



GROUNDSEL. J rpi i r-'i- i 'i / i -p.- 



j J he decoction or this herb (sailh Diosco- 



Descript.'] OUR common Groundsel has > rides) made Avith wine, and drank, helps 

 a round green and somewhat brownish , the pains of the stomach, proceeding of 

 stalk, spreading toward the top into branches, j choler, (which it may well do by a vomit) 

 set with long and somewhat nan ow green I as daily experience shews. The juice there- 

 leaves, cut in on the edges, somewhat like | of taken in drink, or the decoction of it in 

 the oak-leaves, but less, and round at the f ale, gently performs the same. It is good 

 end. At the tops of the branches stand j against the iaundiee and falling sickness, 

 many small green heads, out of which grow j being taken in wine ; as aiso against dif- 

 several small, yellow threads or thumbs, 1 ficulty of making water. It provokes 

 which are the flowers, and continue many ; urine, expels gravel in the reins or kidneys; 

 days blown in that manner, before it pass la dram thereof given in oxymel, after some 

 away into down, and with | the seed is walking or stirring of the body. It helps 

 carried away in the wind. The root is small : also the sciatica, griping of the belly, the 

 and thready, and soon perishes, and aslcholic, defects of the liver, and provokes 

 soon rises again of its own sowing, so that : women's courses. The fresh herb boiled, 



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