104 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



helps them to make water that are stopped, j DescriptJ] The root is composed of many 

 or are troubled with the wind or cholic, if | small white threads from whence spring up 

 the place be bathed therewith. A decoc- j divers long stalks of winged leaves, consist- 

 tion made with the flowers of Lavender, $ ing of round, tender, dark, green leaves, 

 Hore-hound, Fennel and Asparagus root, j set one against another upon a middle rib, 

 and a little Cinnamon, is very profitably j the greatest being at the end, amongst 

 used to help the falling-sickness, and the \ which arise up divers tender, weak, round, 

 giddiness or turning of the brain : to gar- 1 green stalks, somewhat streaked, with lon- 

 gle the mouth with the decoction thereof 5 . ger and smaller leaves upon them; on the 

 is good against the tooth-ache. Two ! tops of which stand flowers, almost like the 

 spoonfuls of the distilled water of the j Stock Gilliflowers, but rounder, and not so 

 flowers taken, helps them that have lost \ long, of a blushing white colour; the seed 

 their voice, as also the tremblings and pas- j is reddish, and grows to small branches, 

 sions of the heart, and faintings and swoon- i being of a sharp biting taste, and so has the 

 ing, not only being drank, but applied to 5 herb. 



the temples, or nostrils to be smelled unto ; ! Place.'] They grow in moist places, and 

 but it is not safe to use it where the body is j near to brooksides. 



replete with blood and humours, because of | Time.'] They flower in April and May, 

 the hot and subtile spirits wherewith it island the lower leaves continue green all the 

 possessed. The chymical oil drawn from \ Winter. 



Lavender, usually called Oil of Spike, is of i Government and virtues.'] They are under 

 so fierce and piercing a quality, that it is \ the dominion of the Moon, and very little 

 cautiously to be used, some few drops being | inferior to Water Cresses in all their opera- 

 sufficient, to be given with other things, 5 tions ; they are excellently good for the 

 either for inward or outward griefs. i scurvy, they provoke urine, and break the 



LAVENDER-COTTON. | stone, and excellently warm a cold and 



T , u T i ii J weak stomach, restoring lost appetite, and 



IT being a common garden herb, I shall ; , , r 

 c ^u j s i . i help digestion, 



forbear the description, only take notice, ; 



that it flowers in June and July. LETTUCE. 



Government and virtues.-] It is under the , JT . g go weR kn j, aj] uged 



dominion of Mercury. It resists poison, \ & Sal]ad _ herb that it is together need- 

 putrefaction, and heals the biting of veno- ^ ^ wrke descr ip t ion thereof, 

 rnous beasts: A dram of the powder of the | Gmemment J md ^ tues ^ The Moon 

 dried leaves taken every morning fasting > n t , and ^ ig the J reason th cool 

 stops the running of the reins in men, and j and moigten what heat and drvness / Mars 

 whites in women. The seed beaten into | ^^ becaue Marg hag hi fa in Can _ 

 powder, and taken as worm-seed, kilsthej^. and th cool the heat because the 

 worms, not only in children , but .also m jg un fuleg j between whom and the Moon 

 people of riper years ; the like doth the [g & tion in the generation of men, as 



herb itself, being steeped in milk and the ma gee jn m ^ Guide for Women> 



milk drank ; the body bathed with the de- ^ .^ & of Lettuce mixed or boiled with 

 coction of it, helps scabs and itch. j ou ^ RoscSj app]ied to the forchead and 



LADIES-SMOCK, OR cucKow-FLo WER. j temples procures sleep, and eases the head- 



THIS is a very pretty ornament to the! ache proceeding of an hot cause: Being 



sides of most meadows. i eaten boiled, it helps to loosen the belly. 



