THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



the virtues of the other, quite undoing what the place with good treacle, ana after to 

 that doth. roast it well under the embers, which, after 



Time.~] One or other of them may be \ taking away the outermost skin thereof, 

 found in flower from the beginning of April : being beaten together, is a sovereign salve 



to the latter end of August. 



Government and virtues J] They are hot 

 and moist in operation, under the dominion 

 of Dame Venus, and provoke lust exceed- 



for either plague or sore, or any other 

 putrefied ulcer. The juice of Onions is 

 good for either scalding or burning by fire, 

 water, or gunpowder, and used with vine- 



ingly, -vhich, they say, the dried and 'gar, takes away all blemishes, spots and 

 withered roots do restrain. They are held \ marks in the skin : and dropped in the 

 to kill worms in children; as also, being! ears, eases the pains and noise of them, 

 bruised and applied to the place, to heal j Applied also with figs beaten togettier, helps 



the king's evil. 





ONIONS. 



THEY are so well known, that I need not 

 spend time about writing a description of 



to ripen and break imposthumes, and other 

 sores. 



Leeks are as like them in quality, as the 

 pome-water is like an apple : They are a 

 remedy against a surfeit of mushrooms, 



being baked under the embers and taken ,, 



Government and virtues.'] Mars owns and being boiled and applied very warm, 

 them, and they have gotten this quality, to help the piles. In other things they have 

 draw any corruption to them, for if you I the same property as the Onions, although 

 peel one, and lay it upon a dunghill, you I not so effectual, 

 shall find it rotten in half a day, by drawing 

 putrefaction to it ; then, being bruised and 



applied to a plague sore, it is very probable Descript.~] COMMON Orpine rises up 

 it will do the like. Onions are flatulent, or I with divers rough brittle stalks, thick set 

 windy ; yet they do somewhat provoke j with fat and fleshy leaves, without any 

 appetite, increase thirst, ease the belly and i order, and little or nothing dented about 

 bowels, provoke women's courses, help the | the edges, of a green colour : The flowers 

 biting of a mad dog, and of other venomous { are white, or whitish, growing in tufts, after 

 creatures, to be used with honey and rue, j which come small chaffy husks, with seeds 

 increase sperm, especially the seed of them, j like dust in them. The roots are divers 



They also kill worms in children if they 

 drink the water fasting wherein they have 



thick, round, white tuberous clogs ; and the 

 plant grows not so big in some places as in 



been steeped all night. Being roasted > others where it is found. 



under the embers, and eaten with honey or j Place.'] It is frequent in almost every 



sugar and oil, they much conduce to help \ county of this land, and is cherished in 



an inveterate cough, and expectorate the t gardens with us, where it grows greater than 



tough phlegm. The juice being snuffed I that which is wild, and grows in shadowj 



up into the nostrils, purges the head, and j sides of fields and woods. 



helps the lethargy, (yet the often eating j Time.~\ It flowers about July, and the 



them is said to procure pains in the head.) j seed is ripe in August. 



It hath been held by divers country people \ Government and virtues.'] The Moon 



a great preservative against infection, to eat j owns the herb, and he that knows but her 



Onions fasting with bread and salt: As j exaltaralion, knows what I say is true 



aJso to make a great Onion hollow, filling j Orpine is seldom used in inward medicines 



