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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



HEART TREFOIL. 



BESIDES the ordinary sort of Trefoil, 



they yield a reddish juice or liquor, some- 

 what resinous, and of a harsh and stypick 

 taste, as the leaves also and the flowers be, 



here are two more remarkable, and one of \ although much less, but do not yield such 

 which may be properly called Heart Tre-ja clear claret wine colour, as some say it 



foil, not only because the leaf is triangular, 

 like the heart of a man, but also because 

 each leaf contains the perfection of a heart, 

 and that in its proper colour, viz. a flesh 



doth, the root is brownish, somewhat great, 

 hard and woody, spreading well in the 

 ground. 



Placed] It grows in many woods, groves, 



colour. ! and woody grounds, as parks and forests, 



Place.] It grows between Longford and ; and by hedge-sides in many places in this 



Bow, and beyond Southwark, by the high- j land, as in Hampstead wood, by Ratley in 



way and parts adjacent. ! Essex, in the wilds of Kent, and in many 



Government and virtues^] It is under the ) other places needless to recite. 



dominion of the Sun, and if it were used, it | Time.'] It flowers later than St. John's 



would be found as great a strengthener of! or St. Peter's-wort. 



the heart, and cherisher of the vital spirits { Government and virtues.'] It is an herb of 



as grows, relieving the body against faint- 

 ing and swoonings, fortifying it against 

 poison and pestilence, defending the heart 

 against the noisome vapours of the spleen. 



Saturn, and a most noble anti-venerean. 

 Tustan purges choleric humours, as St. 

 Peter's-wort is said to do, for therein it 

 works the same effects, both to help the 



PEARL TREFOIL. 



sciatica and gout, and to heal burning by 

 I fire ; it stays all the bleedings of wounds, 



IT differs not from the common sort, j if either the green herb be bruised, or the 

 save only in this particular, it bath a while * powder of the dry be applied thereto. It 

 spot in the leaf like a pearl. It is particu- j hath been accounted, and certainly it is, 

 larly under the dominion of the Moon, and \ a sovereign herb to heal either wound or 

 its icon shews that it is of a singular virtue | sore, either outwardly or inwardly, and 

 against the pearl, or pin and web in the ; therefore always used in drinks, lotions, 

 eyes. ! green wounds, ulcers, or old sores, in all 



\ balms, oils, ointments, or any other sorts of 



TUSTAN, OR PARK LEAVES. 1-1 cc 



I which the continual experience of former 



Descript.~] IT hath brownish shining {ages hath confirmed the use thereof to be 

 round stalks, crested the length thereof, j admirably good, though it be not so much 

 rising two by two, and sometimes three feet j in use now, as when physicians and sur- 

 high, branching forth even from the bottom, \ geons were so wise as to use herbs more 

 having divers joints, and at each of them | than now they do. 

 two fair large leaves standing, of a dark I 



. , -j GARDEN VALERIAN. 



blueish green colour on the upper side, and | 



of a yellowish green underneath, turning! Descript.~\ THIS hath a thick short 

 reddish toward Autumn. At the top of the! greyish root, lying for the most part above 

 stalks stand large yellow flowers, and heads i ground, shooting forth on all other sides 

 with seed, which being greenish at the first 5 such like small pieces of roots, which have 

 and afterwards reddish, turn to be of a * all of them many long green strings and 

 blackish purple colour when they are ripe, j fibres under them in the ground, whereby 

 with small brownish seed within them, and | it draws nourishment. From the head of 



