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beaten together with two or three corns of j the green husks being ripe, when they are 

 salt and twenty juniper berries, which take i shelled from the nuts, and drank with a 

 every morning fasting, preserves from dan- j little vinegar, is good for the place, so as 

 ger of poison, and infection that day it is before the taking thereof a vein be opened- 

 taken. The juice of the other green husks ? The said water is very good against the 

 boiled with honey is an excellent gargle for | quinsy, being gargled and bathed there- 

 sore mouths, or the heat and inflammations ; with, and wonderfully helps deafness, the 

 in the throat and stomach. The kernels, j noise, and other pains in the ears. The 

 when they grow old, are more oily, and {distilled water of the young green leaves in 

 therefore not fit to be eaten, but are then j the end of May, performs a singular cure 

 used to heal the wounds of the sinews, j on foul running ulcers and sores, to be 

 gangrenes, and carbuncles. The said ker- | bathed, with wet cloths or spunges applied 

 nels being burned, are very astringent, [to them every morning, 

 and will stay lasks and women's courses, 5 , 



,.,,'! WOLD, WELD, OR DYERS WEED. 



being taken in red wine, and stay the fall- 1 



ing of the hair, and make it fair, being; THE common kind grows bushing with 



anointed with oil and wine. The green 

 husks will do the like, being used in the 

 same manner. The kernels beaten with 



many leaves, long, narrow and flat upon 

 the ground ; of a dark blueish green colour, 

 somewhat like unto Woad, but nothing so 



rue and- wine, being applied, help the large, a little crumpled, and as it were 

 quinsy ; and bruised with some honey, and 5 round-pointed, which do so abide the first 

 applied to the ears, ease the pains and in- j year; and the next spring from among 

 flammation of them. A piece of the green them, rise up divers round stalks, two or 



husks put into a hollow tooth, eases the 

 pain. The catkins hereof, taken before 

 they fall off, dried, and given a dram thereof 



three feet high, beset with many such like 

 leaves thereon, but smaller, and shooting 

 forth small branches, which with the stalks 



in powder with white wine, wonderfully j carry many small yellow flowers, in a long 

 helps those that are troubled with the rising j spiked head at the top of them, where aftcr- 

 of the mother. The oil that is pressed out] wards come the seed, which is small and 

 of the kernels, is very profitable, taken in- \ black, inclosed in heads that are divided at 

 wardly like oil of almonds, to help the j the tops into four parts. The root is long, 

 cholic, and to expel wind very effectually ; | white and thick, abiding the Winter. The 

 an ounce or two thereof may be taken at j whole herb changes to be yellow, after it 

 any time. The young green nuts taken j hath been in flower awhile, 

 before they be half ripe, and preserved with \ Place.'] It grows every where by the 

 sugar, are of good use for those that have \ way sides, in moist grounds, as well as dry, 

 weak stomachs, or defluctions thereon. The j in corners of fields and bye lanes, and some- 

 distilled water of the green husks, before \times all over the field. In Sussex and 

 they be half ripe, is of excellent use to cool i; Kent they call it Green Weed, 

 the heat of agues, being drank an ounce or: Time.] It flowers in June. 



Government and virtues.] Matthiolus saith, 

 that the root hereof cures tough phlegm, 



two at a time : as also to resist the infec- 

 tion of the plague, if some of the same be 



also applied to the sores thereof. The | digests raw phlegm, thins gross humours, 

 same also cools the heat of green wounds j dissolves hard tumours, and opens obstruc- 

 and old ulcers, and heals them, being jtions. Some do highly commend it agains 1 

 bathed therewith. The distilled water of j the biting of venomous creatures, to be taken 



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