136 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



juice dropped into the ears, cases the noise \ There is a greater kind than the ordinary 

 in them, and takes away the pricking and Isort found wild with us, which so abides, 

 shooting pains therein: The same, or the .-being brought into gardens, and differs not 

 distilled water, assuages hot and swelling \ from it, but only in the largeness of the 

 hnposthumes, burnings and scalclings by | leaves and stalks, in rising higher, and not 

 fire or water ; as also all other hot tumours ! creeping upon the ground so much. The 

 and inflammations, or breakings-out, of ! flowers whereof are purple, growing in run- 

 heat, being bathed often with wet cloths ! dies about the stalks like the other, 

 dipped therein : The said juice made into | Place.~] The first, which is common in 

 a liniment with ceruss, and oil of roses, and j gardens, grows also in many moist and 

 anointed therewith, cleanses foul rotten watery places of this land, 

 ulcers, and stays spreading or creeping! The second is found wild in effect in 

 ulcers, and running scabs or sores in chil- j divers places by the highways from London 

 dren's heads ; and helps to stay the hair \ to Colchester, and thereabouts, more abun- 

 from falling off the head. The said oint- jdantly than in any other counties, and is 

 menl, or the herb applied to the fundament, ! also planted in their gardens in Essex, 

 opens the piles, and eases their pains ; and { Time.'] They flower in the latter end of 

 being mixed with goats' tallow, helps the j Summer, about August, 

 gout. The juice is very effectual to cleanse; Government and virtues.'] The herb is 

 fistulas, and to heal them up safely ; or the j under Venus. Dioscorides sailh, that 

 herb itself bruised and applied with a little > Pennyroyal makes thin tough phlegm, 

 salt. It is likewise also effectual to heal | warms the coldness of any part whereto it 

 any green wound ; if it he bruised and j is applied, and digests raw or corrupt mat- 

 bound thereto for three days, you shall j ter ; Being boiled and drank, it provokes 

 need no other medicine to heal it further. : women's courses, and expels the dead child 

 A poultice made hereof with Mallows, and 5 and after-birth, and stays the disposition 

 boiled in wine and wheat bran and bean \ to vomit, being taken in water and vinegar 

 flour, and some oil put thereto, and ap- j mingled together. And being mingled with 

 plied warm to any bruised sinews, tendon, j honey and salt, it voids phlegm out of the 

 or muscle, doth in a very short time restore \ lungs, and purges melancholy by the stool, 

 them to their strength, taking away the | Drank with wine, it helps such as are bitten 

 pains of the bruises, and dissolves the con- J and stung=with venomous beasts, and ap- 

 gealed blood coming of blows, or falls from plied to the nostrils with vinegar, revives 

 high places. { those that are fainting and swooning. 



The juice of Pellitory of the Wall clarified j Being dried and burnt, it strengthens the 

 and boiled in a syrup with honey, and a gums. It is helpful to those that are trou- 

 spoonful of it drank every morning by such ! bled with the gout, being applied of itself 

 as are subject to the dropsy; if continuing' to the place until it was red; and applied 

 that course, though but once a weak, they j in a plaister, it takes away spots or marks 

 ever have the dropsy, let them but come : in the face; applied with salt, it profits those 

 to me, and I will cure them gratis. S that are splenetic, or livergrown. The de- 



jcoction doth help the itch, if washed there- 

 jwith. The green herb bruised and put 



PENNYROYAL is so well known unto j into vinegar, cleanses foul ulcers, and takes 

 all, I mean the common kind, that it needs jaway the marks of bruises and blows about 

 no description. I the eyes, and a.l discolourings of the face 



