183 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



good colour in the face and body, strengthens | meal into a poultice, if cools inflammations 

 as well as corrects the diseases of the stomach, j of wounds; the dropping of the vine, when 

 liver, and spleen ; helps the cough, wheez- 5 it is cut in the Spring, which country people 

 ings, and shortness of breath, and all the \ call Tears, being boiled in a syrup, with 

 defects of the reins and bladder, expelling I sugar, and taken inwardly, is excellent to 

 the gravel and stone. It is held to be good | stay women's longings after every thing 



against the biting of sepents, and other 

 venomous beasts, against the plague, and 



they see, which is a disease many women 

 with child are subject to. The decoction of 



both tertian and quartan agues. It con- Vine leaves in white wine doth the like, 

 solidates and heals also all wounds, both * Also the tears of the Vine, drank two or 

 inward and outward, stays bleedings, and \ three spoonfuls at a time, breaks the stone 

 used with some honey, heals all old ulcers ! in the bladder. This is a very good remedy,, 

 and fistulas in the legs or other parts of the! and it is discreetly done, to kill a Vine to 

 body ; as also those ulcers that happen in I cure a man, but the salt of the leaves are 

 the mouth ; or used Avith hog's grease, it j held to be better. The ashes of the burnt 

 helps the swellings and pains of the secret \ branches will make teeth that are as black 

 parts in man or woman, also for the piles j as a coal, to be as white as snow, if you but 

 or haemorrhoids ; applied with some oil of | every morning rub them with it. It is a 

 roses and vinegar unto the forehead and most gallant Tree of the Sun, very sympa- 

 temples, it eases the inveterate pains and ; thetical with the body of men, and that is 

 ache of the head, and is good for those that | the reason spirit of wine is the greatest cor- 

 are frantic. The leaves bruised, or the i dial among all vegetables, 

 juice of them mixed with some vinegar, \ 

 doth wonderfully cleanse the skin, andj 



lakes away morphew, freckles, fistulas, and J BOTH the tame and the wild are so well 

 other such like inflamations and defor- \ known, that they need no description, 

 mities of the skin in any parts of the body, j Time."} They flower until the end of 

 The distilled water of the herb when it is in J July, but are best in March, and the begin- 

 full strength, dropped into the eyes, cleanses] ning of April. 



them from films, clouds, or mists, that \ Government and virtues^] They are a fine 

 darken the sight, and wonderfully strengthens \ pleasing plant of Venus, of a mild nature, 

 the optic nerves. The said water is very \ no way harmful. All the Violets are cold 

 powerful in all the diseases aforesaid, either land moist while they are fresh and green, 

 inward or outward, whether they be old j and are used to cool any heat, or distem- 

 corroding sores, or green wounds. The \ perature of the body, either inwardly or 

 dried root, and peeled, is known to be ex-! outwardly, as inflammations in the eyes, in 

 cellently good against all scrophulous and \ the matrix or fundament, in imposthumes 

 scorbutic habits of body, by being tied to j also, and hot swellings, to drink the decoc- 

 the pit of the stomach, by a piece of white* tion of the leaves and flowers made with water 

 ribband round the neck. : in wine, or to apply them poultice-wise 



| to the grieved places : it likewise eases pains 

 | in the head, caused through want of sleep ; 



THE leaves of the English vine (I do not lor any other pains arising of heat, being 

 mean to send you to the Canaries for a | applied in the same manner, or with oil of 

 medicine (being boiled, makes a good lotion j roses. A dram weight of the dried 'eaves 

 for sore mouths ; being boiled with barley i or flower of Violets, but the leaves more 



