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purposes, and the condensate juice of the [applied with a little flour and wax to chil- 

 Sloes. The distilled water of the green \ dren's navels that stick forth, it helps them, 

 berries is used also for the said effects. 



THYME. 



THOROUGH WAX, OR THOROUGH LEAF. j It is in vain to describe an herb so com- 



tmonly known. 



Descript.~\ COMMON Thorough- Wax | Government and virtues."] It is a noble 

 sends forth a strait round stalk, two feet strengthener of the lungs, as notable a one 



high, or better, whose lower leaves being 

 of a bluish colour, are smaller and narrower 

 than those up higher, and stand close there- 

 to, not compassing it; but as they grow 

 higher, they do not encompass the stalks, 



as grows ; neither is there scarce a better 

 remedy growing for that disease in children 

 which they commonly call the Chin-cough, 

 than it is. It purges the body of phlegm, 

 and is an excellent remedy for shortness of 



until it wholly pass through them, branch- 1 breath. It kills worms in the belly, and 

 ing toward the top into many parts, where: being a notable herb of Venus, provokes 

 the leaves grow smaller again, every one {the terms, gives safe and speedy delivery 

 standing singly, and never two at a joint. \ to women in travail, and brings away the 

 The flowers are small and yellow, standing I after birth. It is so harmless you need not 

 in tufts at the heads of the branches, where 5 fear the use of it. An ointment made of it 

 afterwards grow the seed, being blackish, ; takes away hot swellings and warts, helps 

 many thick thrust together. The root is \ the sciatica and dullness of sight, and takes 

 small, long and woody, perishing every I away pains and hardness of the spleen, 

 year, after seed-time, and rising again plen- | Tis excellent for those that are troubled 

 tifully of its own sowing. | with the gout. It eases pains in the loins 



Place.'] It is found growing in many {and hips. The herb taken any way in- 

 corn-fields and pasture grounds in thisjwardly, comforts the stomach much, and 

 land. expels wind. 



Time.'] It flowers in July, and the seed 

 is ripe in August. 



Government and virtues.'] Both this and 



WILD THYME, OR MOTHER OF THYME. 



WILD Thyme also is so well known, that 



the former are under the influence of 5 it needs no description. 

 Saturn. Thorough- Wax is of singular good * Place.] It may be found commonly in 

 use for all sorts of bruises and wounds either I commons, and other barren places through- 

 inward or outward ; and old ulcers and j out the nation. 



sores likewise, if the decoction of the herb \ Government and virtues.'] It is under the 

 with water and wine be drank, and the j dominion of Venus, and under the sign 

 place washed therewith, or the juice of the J Aries, and therefore chiefly appropriated 

 green herb bruised, or boiled, either by i to the head. It provokes urine and the 

 itself, or with other herbs, in oil or hog's ! terms, and eases the griping pain of the 

 grease, to be made into an ointment to servej belly, cramps, ruptures, and inflamation 

 all the year. The decoction of the herb, j of the liver. If you make a vinegar of the 

 or powder of the dried herb, taken inwardly, \ herb, as vinegar of roses is made (you may 

 and the same, or the leaves bruised, and! find out the way in my translation of the 

 applied outwardly, is singularly good for \ London Dispensatory) and anoint the head 

 all ruptures and burstings, especially in with it, it presently stops the pains thereof, 

 children before they be too old. Being lit is excellently good to be given either in 



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