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sharp humours. The same is also effectual 

 for the- piles or haemorrhoids, if they be 

 washed or bathed therewith, or with the 



of joint and newly set, and full of pain, do 

 give much ease ; the seed and juice of the 

 leaves also being rubbed with a little salt 



distilled water of the herb and roots. It is , upon warts and wens, and other kernels in 

 found also helpful to dry up any sharp I the face, eye-lids, or any other part of the 

 rheum that distills from the head into the: body, will, by often using, take them away, 

 eyes, causing redness, pain, waterings, itch- i 



ing, or the like, if a little prepared tutia, or \ MEADOW TREFOIL, OR HONEYSUCKLES. 

 white amber, be used with the distilled j 



water thereof. And here is enough, only i It is so well known, especially by the 

 remember the Sun challengeth this herb. I name of Honeysuckles, white and red, that 



! I need not describe them. 



TURNSOLE, OR HELIOTROPIUM. p^ -j ^ ^ almost every where 



DescriptJ] THE greater Turnsole rises' in this land. 



with one upright stalk, about a foot high, or j Government and virtues.] Mercury hath 

 rriore, dividing itself almost from the bottom, > dominion over the common sort. Dodo- 

 into divers small branches, of a hoary colour; j neus saith, The leaves and flowers are good 

 at each joint of the stalk and branches grow | to ease the griping pains of the gout, the 

 small broad leaves, somewhat white and | herb being boiled and used in a clyster, 

 hairy. At the tops of the stalks and branches i If the herb be made into a poultice, and 

 stand small white flowers, consisting of four, ? applied to inflammations, it will ease them, 

 and sometimes five small leaves, set in | The juice dropped in the eyes, is a familiar 

 order one above another, upon a small j medicine, with many country people, to 

 crooked spike, which turns inwards like a i take away the pin and web (as they call it) 

 bowed finger, opening by degrees as the fin the eyes; it also allays the heat and 

 flowers blow open; after which in their j blood shooting of them. Country people 

 place come forth cornered seed, four for the | do also in many places drink the juice 

 most part standing together; the root is \ thereof against the biting of an adder ; and 

 small and thready, perishing every year, i having boiled the berb in water, they first 

 and the seed shedding every year, raises it | wash the place with the decoction, and then 

 again the next spring. \ lay some of the herb also to the hurt place. 



Place.'] It grows in gardens, and flowers) The herb also boiled in swine's grease, and 

 and seeds with us, notwithstanding it is not j so made into an ointment, is good to apply 

 natural to this land, but to Italy, Spain, and i to the biting of any venomous creature. 

 France, where it grows plentifully. jThe herb also bruised and heated between 



Government and virtues.'] It is an herb of \ tiles, and applied hot to the share, causes 

 the Sun, and good one too. Dio^corides| them to make water who had it stopt be- 

 saith, That a good handful of this, which is { fore. It is held likewise to be good for 

 called the Great Turnsole, boiled in water, \ wounds, and to take away seed. The de- 

 and drank, purges both choler and phlegm; 1 coction of the herb and flowers, with the 

 and boiled with cummin, helps the stone in j seed and root, taken for some time, helps 

 the reins, kidneys, or bladder, provokes | women that are troubled with the whites, 

 urine and women's courses, and causes an | The seed and flowers boiled in water, and 

 easy and speedy delivery in child-birth. | afterwards made into a poultice with some 

 The leaves bruised and applied to places | oil, and applied, helps hard swellings and 

 pained with the gout, or that have been out! imposthumes. 



