100 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



almost, to grow in woods upon the trees, f and nose, and curing the ulcers and stench 

 and upon the stone walls of churches, | therein ; the same dropped into the ears, 

 houses, &c. and sometimes to grow alone of j helps the old and running sores of them ; 

 itself, though but seldom, j those that are troubled with the spleen, 



Time.'] It flowers not until July, and! shall find much ease by continual drinking 

 the berries are not ripe till Christmas, when \ out of a cup made of Ivy, so as the drink 



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they have felt Winter frosts. 



Government and virtues."] It is under the ; 



may stand some small time therein before 

 it be drank. Cato saith, That wine put 



dominion of Saturn. A pugil of the flowers, into such a cup, will soak through it, by 

 which may be about a dram, (saith Diosco- j reason of the antipathy that is between 

 corides) drank twice a day in red wine, j them. 



helps the lask, and bloody flux. It is an j There seems to be a very great antipathy 

 enemy to the nerves and sinews, being j between wine and Ivy ; for if one hath got 

 much taken inwardly, but very helpful | a surfeit by drinking of wine, his speediest 

 to them, being outwardly applied. Pliny j cure is to drink a draught of the same wine 

 saith, the yellow berries are good against ; wherein a handful of Ivy leaves, being first 

 the jaundice ; and taken before one be set \ bruised, have been boiled, 

 to drink hard, preserves from drunkenness, \ 

 and helps those that spit blood; and that* 



the white berries being taken inwardly, or; FOB to give a description of a bush so 

 applied outwardly, kills the worms in the; commonly known is needless, 

 belly. The berries are a singular remedy j Place.'] They grow plentifully in divers 

 to prevent the plague, as also to iree them j woods in Kent, Warney common near 

 from it that have got it, by drinking the ! Brent wood in Essex, upon Finchley Corn- 

 berries thereof made in to a powder, fortwoimon without High gate ; hard by the New- 

 or three days together. They being taken j found Wells near Dulwich, upon a Common 

 in wine, do certainly help to break the {between Mitcham and Crpydon, in the 

 stone, provoke urine, and women's courses, j Highgate near Amersham in Buckingham* 

 The fresh leaves of Ivy, boiled in vinegar, I shire, and many other places, 

 and applied warm to the sides of those that \ Time.'] The berries are not ripe the first 

 are troubled with the spleen, ache, or stitch 1 year, but continue green two Summers and 

 in the sides, do give much ease : The same] one Winter before they are ripe ; at which 

 applied with some Rosewater, and oil of j time they are all of a black colour, and 

 Roses, to the temples and forehead, eases j therefore you shall always find upon the 

 the head-ache, though it be of long con- \ bush green berries ; the berries are ripe 

 tinuance. The fresh leaves boiled in wine, I about the fall of the leaf, 

 and old filthy ulcers hard to be cured \ Government and virtues.'] This admirable 

 washed therewith, do wonderfully help to ; ( solar shrub is scarce to be paralleled for its 

 cleanse them. It also quickly heals green $ virtues. The berries are hot in the third 

 wounds, and is effectual to heal all burnings 1 degree, and dry but in the first, being a 

 and scaldings, and all kinds of exulcera- { most admirable counter-poison, and as great 

 tions coming thereby, or by salt phlegm or { a resister of the pestilence, as any growing ; 

 humours in other parts of the body. The j they are excellent good against the bi tings 

 juice of the berries or leaves snuffed up into of venomous beasts, they provoke urine 

 the nose, purges the head and brain of thin t exceedingly, and therefore are very avail- 

 rheum that makes defluxions into the eyes ; able to dysuries and stranguaries. It is so 



