146 THE COMPLETE HERBAL. 



It is also more cooling than any of the \ parts where pushes, wheals, pimples, St, 

 other Poppies, and therefore cannot but | Anthony's h're and the like, break forth ; 

 be as effectual in hot agues, frenzies, and j if a little vinegar be put to it, and laid to 

 other inflammations either inward or out- { the neck, with as much of galls and linseed 

 ward. Galen saith, The seed is dangerous \ together, it takes away the pains therein, 

 to be used inwardly. land the crick in the neck. The juice 



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PURSLAIN ' uset ^ w ^ ^ f roses * r tne same caus es, 



\ or for blasting by lightening, and burnings 



GARDEN Purslain (being used as a sal- j by gunpowder, or for women's sore breasts, 

 lad herb) is so well known that it needs no | and to allay the heat in all other sores or 

 description; I shall therefore only speak of j hurts ; applied also to the navels of chil- 

 its virtues as follows. \ dren that stick forth, it helps them ; it is 



Government and virtues."] 'Tis an herb of j also good for sore mouths and gums that 

 the Moon. It is good to cool any heat in j are swollen, and to fasten loose teeth. 

 the liver, blood, reins, and stomach, and in | Camerarius saith, the distilled water used 

 hot agues nothing better : It stays hot and j by some, took away the pain of their teeth, 

 choleric fluxes of the belly, women's courses, j when all other remedies failed, and the 

 the whites, and gonorrhaea, or running of | thickened juice made into pills with the 

 the reins, the distillation from the head, j powder of gum Tragicanth and Arabic, 

 and pains therein proceeding from heat, j being taken, prevails much to help those 

 want of sleep, or the frenzy. The seed is that make bloody water. Applied to the 

 more effectual than the herb, and is of sin- j gout it eases pains thereof, and helps the 

 gular good use to cool the heat and sharp- j hardness of the sinews, if it come not of the 

 ness of urine, venereous dreams, snd the { cramp, or a cold cause. 

 like ; insomuch that the over frequent use j 

 hereof extinguishes the heat and vitue of 



natural procreation. The seed bruised and j THEY are so well known, that they need 

 boiled in wine, and given to children, ex- \ no description. Of the leaves of Primroses 

 pels the worms. The juice of the herb is j is made as fine a salve to heal wounds as 

 held as effectual to all the purposes afore- \ any that I know; you shall be taught to 

 said ; as also to stay vomitings, and taken j make salves of any herb at the latter end of 

 with some sugar or honey, helps an old and ; the book : make this as you are taught 

 dry cough, shortness of breath, and the * there, and do not (you that have any in- 

 phthisick, and stays immoderate thirst, j genuity in you) see your poor neighbours 

 The distilled water of the herb is used by | go with wounded limbs when an halfpenny 

 many (as the more pleasing) with a little | cost will heal them. 

 sugar to work the same effects. The juice \ 

 also is singularly good in the inflammations { 



and ulcers in the serect parts of man or j Descript.'] OUR common Privet is carn- 

 woman, as also the bowels and hemorrhoids, | ed up with many slender branches to a 

 when they are ulcerous, or excoriations in reasonable height and breadth, to cover 

 them. The herb bruised and applied to the ! arbours, bowers and banquetting houses, 

 forehead and temples, allays excessive heat { and brought, wrought, and cut into so many 

 therein, that hinders rest and sleep ; and j forms, of men, horses, birds, &c. which 

 applied to the eyes, takes away the redness I though at first supported, grows afterwards 

 and inflammation in them, and those other | strong of itself. It bears long and narrow 



