.112 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



tual against scaldings and burnings, St. !J drink, to those that are wounded, and read v 

 Anthony's fire, and all other hot, red, and to faint through loss of blood, and applied 

 painful swellings in any part of the body, i; the same, mixed with honey and rosin, to 

 The flowers boiled in oil or water (as every j the wounds. As also, the roots boiled in 

 one is disposed) whereunto a little honey \ wine to those that have received any hurt 



and allum is put, is an excellent gargle to 

 wash, cleanse or heal any sore mouth or 



throat in a short space. If the feet be ii pain, or ache in the muscles, sinews or 



bathed or washed with the decoction of the 



by bruises, falls, or blows, or had any bone 

 or member out of joint, or any swelling- 



arteries. The muscilage of the roots, and of 



leaves, roots, and flowers, it helps much \ Linseed and Fenugreek put together, is much 

 the defluxions of rheum from the head ; : used in poultices, ointments, and plaisters, 

 if the head be washed therewith, it stays j to molify and digest all hard swellings, and 

 the falling and shedding of the hair. The j the inflammation of them, and to ease pains 

 green leaves (saith Pliny) beaten with $ in any part of the body. The seed either 



nitre, and applied, draw out thorns or 

 prickles in the flesh. 



The Marshmallows are more effectual in 



green or dry, mixed with vinegar, cleanses 

 the skin of morphew, and all other dis- 

 colourings, being boiled therewith in the 



all the diseases before mentioned: The j Sun. 



leaves are likewise used to loosen the belly | You may remember that not long since 

 gently, and in decoctions or clysters to ease j there was a raging disease called the bloody- 

 all pains of the body, opening the strait j flux ; the college of physicians not knowing 

 passages, and making them slippery, where-! what to make of it, called it the inside 



by the stone may descend the more easily 

 and without pain, out of the reins, kidneys, 

 and bladder, and to ease the torturing pains 



plague, for their wits were at Ne plus ultra 

 about it : My son was taken with the same 

 disease, and the excoriation of his bowels 



thereof. But the roots are of more special j was exceeding great ; myself being in the 

 use for those purposes, as well for coughs, | country, was sent for up, the only thing 

 hoarseness, shortness of breath and wheez- 1 1 gave him, was Mallows bruised and 

 ings, being boiled in wine, or honeyed ; boiled both in milk and drink, in two days 

 water, and drank. The roots and seeds i (the blessing of God being upon it) it cured 

 hereof boiled in wine or water, are with j him. And I here, to shew my thankful- 

 good success used by them that have ex- j ness to God, in communicating it to his 

 conations in the bowels, or the bloody flux, j creatures, leave it to posterity 

 by qualifying the violence of sharp fretting j MAPLE TREE 



Humours, easing the pains, and healing the ' 



soreness. It is profitably taken by them j Government and virtues.] IT is under the 

 that are troubled with ruptures, cramps, or ; dominion of Jupiter. The decoction either 

 convulsions of the sinews ; and boiled in j of the leaves or bark, must needs strengthen 

 Avhite wine, for the imposthumes by the $ the liver much, and so you shall find it to 

 throat, commonly called the king's evil, and j do, if you use it. It is excellently good to 

 of those kernels that rise behind the ears, \ open obstructions both of the liver and 

 and inflammations or swellings in women's i spleen, and eases pains of the sides thence 

 breasts. The dried roots boiled in milk | proceeding, 

 and drank, is especially good for the chin- j WJND MARJORAM 



cough. Hippocrates used to give the de-i 

 coction of the roots, or the juice thereof, to* CALLED also Origanum, Eastward Mar- 



