190 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



or its chief strength, is excellent to be ap-jings, comforts and strengthens any weak 

 plied either inwardly or outwardly, for all? part, or out of joint; helps to cleanse the 

 the griefs aforesaid. There is a syrup made ? eyes from mistiness or films upon them, 



hereof very effectual for the comforting: 

 the heart, and expelling sadness and melan- ; 



and to cleanse the filthy ulcers in the mouth, 

 or any other part, and is a singular remedy 



choly. j for the gout, and all aches and pains in the 



WATT FTOWFRS OR wTVTFR. r TT T T J oints and sinews. A conserve made of the 



W AJbJH Jc iiU W r/ Kn, UK. Wl^lliiJtt \jiiiLiL l" a if t i .1 f .1 



FLOWERS i flowers, is used for a remedy both for the 



1 apoplexy and palsy. 



THE garden kind are so well known that! 

 they need no description. THE LLNUT TREE - 



Descript.'] The common single Wall- \ IT is so well known, that it needs no des- 

 flowers, which grow wild abroad, have sun- I cription. 



dry small, long, narrow, dark green leaves, j Time.] It blossoms early before the 

 set without order upon small round, whitish, j leaves come forth, and the fruit is ripe in 

 woody stalks, which bear at the tops divers 5 September. 



single yellow flowers one above another, I Government and virtues.'] This is also a 

 every one bearing four leaves a-piece, and i plant of the Sun. Let the fruit of it be 

 of a very sweet scent : after which come j gathered accordingly, which you shall find 

 long pods, containing a reddish seed. The J to be of most virtues while they are green, 

 roots are white, hard and thready. | before they have shells. The bark of the 



> Place.] It grows upon church walls, and \ Tree doth bind and dry very much, and the 

 old walls of many houses, and other stone \ leaves are much of the same temperature : 

 walls in divers places ; The other sort in ! but the leaves when they are older, are heat- 

 gardens only. } ing and drying in the second degree, and 



Time.'] All the single kinds do flower j harder of digestion than when they are 

 many times in the end of Autumn ; and if? fresh, which, by reason of their sweetness, 

 the Winter be mild, all the Winter long, \ are more pleasing, and better digesting in 

 but especially in the months of February, I the stomach ; and taken with sweet wine, 

 March, and April, and until the heat of the! they move the belly downwards, but being 

 spring do spend them. But the double i old, they grieve the stomach; and in hot 

 kinds continue not flowering in that manner ' bodies cause the choler to abound and the 

 all the year long, although they flower very \ head-ach, and are an enemy to those that 

 early sometimes, and in some places very i have the cough ; but are less hurtful to those 

 late. | that have a colder stomach, and are said to 



Government and virtues.'] The Moon rules f kill the broad worms in the belly or stomach, 

 them. Galen, in his seventh book of sim- 1 If they be taken with onions, salt, and 

 pie medicines, saith, That the yellow Wall- i honey, they help the biting of a mad dog, 

 flowers work more powerfully than any or the venom or infectious poison of any 

 of the other kinds, and are therefore of more | beast, &c. Caias Pompeius found in the 

 use in physic. It cleanses the blood, and 1 treasury of Mithridales, king of Pontus, 

 fretteth the liver and reins from obstruc- i when he was overthrown, a scroll of his own 

 tions, provokes women's courses, expels the hand writing, containing a medicine against 

 secundine, and the dead child ; helps the t any poison or infection ; which is this ; 

 hardness and pain of the mother, and of j Take two dry walnuts, and as many good 

 spleen also ; stays inflammations and swell- ^ figs, and twenty leaves of rue, bruised and 



