176 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



and the spleen, or an hot choleric stomach ; a and for such other defects in them as mav 

 to refresh and comfort the fainting spirits, ! be helped by any outward medicine, 

 and quench thirst: They are good also fori 



.1 n - n . J . . t 5 SUCCORY, OR CHICORY. 



other inflammations ; yet it is not amiss to 

 refrain from them in a fever, lest by their 

 putrifying in the stomach they increase 



Descript.~] THE garden Succory hath 

 long and narrower leaves than the Endive, 



the fits. The leaves and roots boiled ! and more cut in or torn on the edges, and 

 in wine and water, and drank, do like- 1 the root abides many years. It bears also 

 wise cool the liver and blood, and assuage! blue flowers like Endive, and the seed is 

 all inflammations in the reins and bladder, j hardly distinguished from the seed of the 

 provoke urine, and allay the heat and 5 smooth or ordinary Endive, 

 sharpness thereof. The same also being! The wild Succory hath divers long leaves 

 drank stays the bloody flux and women's * lying on the ground, very much cut in or 

 courses, and helps the swelling of the ; torn on the edges, on both sides, even to the 

 spleen. The water of the Berries carefully $ middle rib, ending in a point ; sometimes 

 distilled, is a sovereign remedy and cordial lit hath a rib down to the middle of the 

 in the panting and beating of the heart, j leaves, from among which rises up a hard, 

 and is good for the yellow jaundice. The j rbun'd, woody stalk, spreading into many 

 juice dropped into foul ulcers, or they j branches, set with smaller and less divided 

 washed therewith, or the decoction of the j leaves on them up to the tops, where stand 

 herb and root, doth wonderfully cleanse j the flowers, which are like the garden kind, 

 and help to cure them. Lotions and gar- \ and the seed is also (only take notice that 

 gles for sore mouths, or ulcers therein, or in ; the flowers of the garden kind are gone in 

 the privy parts or elsewhere, are made with ; on a sunny day, they being so cold, that 

 the leaves and roots thereof; which is also | they are not able to endure the beams of the 

 good to fasten loose teeth, and to heal J sun, and therefore more delight in the shade) 

 spungy foul gums. It helps also to stay I the root is white, but more hard and woody 

 catarrhs, or defluctions of rheum in the j than the garden kind. The whole plant is 

 mouth, throat, teeth, or eyes. The juice or ; exceedingly bitter. 



water is singularly good for hot and red ; Place.] This grows in many places of 

 inflamed eyes, if dropped into them, or they ; our land in waste untilled and barren fields, 

 bathed therewith. It is also of excellent j The other only in gardens, 

 property for all pushes, wheals and other Government and virtues.] It is an herb of 

 breakings forth of hot and sharp humours j Jupiter. Garden Succory, as it is more 

 in the face and hands, and other parts of S dry and less cold than Endive, so it opens 

 the body, to bathe them therewith, and to i more. An handful of the leaves, or roots 

 take away. any redness in the face, or spots, i boiled in wine or water, and a draught 

 or other deformities in the skin, and to make \ thereof drank fasting, drives forth choleric 

 it clear and smooth. Some use this rnedi- i and phlegmatic humours, opens obstruc- 

 cine , Take so many Strawberries as you ; tions of the liver, gall and spleen ; helps the 

 shall think fitting, and put them into a dis- ; yellow jaundice, the heat of the reins, and 

 tillatory, or body of glass fit for them, which 5 of the urine; the dropsy also ; and those 

 being well closed, set it in a bed of horse'- that have an evil disposition in their bodies, 

 dung for your use. It is an excellent water ;by reason of long sickness, evil diet, &c. 

 for hot inflamed eyes, and to take away aj which the Greeks call Cachexia. Aclecoc- 

 film or skin lhat begins to grow over them, J tion thereof made with wine, and drank, is 



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