192 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



inwardly and applied outwardly to the | bran of Wheat meal steeped in sharp vine- 

 hurt place ; as also for the plague or pes- j gar, and then bound in a linen cloth, and 

 tilence. The people in some countries of? rubbed on those places that have the scurf, 

 this land, do use to bruise the herb, and lay i morphew, scabs or leprosy, will take them 

 it to cuts or wounds in the hands or legs, to j away, the body being first well purged and 

 heal them. \ prepared. The decoction of the bran ot 



WHEAT ;Wheat or barley, is of good use to bathe 



| those places that are bursten by a rupture ; 



ALL tne several kinds thereof are so welnand the said bran boiled in good vinegar, 

 known unto almost all people, that it is all j and applied to swollen breasts, helps them, 

 together needless to write a description j and stays all inflamations. It helps also 

 thereof. ? the biting of vipers (which I take to be no 



Government and virtues.'] It is under { other than our English adder) and all other 

 Venus. Dioscorides saith, That to eat the j venomous creatures. The leaves of Wheat 

 corn of green Wheat is hurtful to the { meal applied with some salt, take away 

 stomach, and breeds worms. Pliny sailh, | hardness of the skin, warts, and hard knots 



That the corn of Wheat, roasted upon an 

 iron pan, and eaten, are a present remedy 



in the flesh. Wafers put in water, and 

 drank, stays the lask and bloody flux, and 



for those that are chilled with cold. The are profitably used both inwardly and out- 

 oil pressed from wheat, between two thick ; wardly for the ruptures in children. Boiled 

 plates of iron, or copper heated, heals all \ in water unto a thick jelly, and taken, it 

 tetters and ring-worms, being used warm ; > slays spitting of blood; and boiled with 

 and hereby Galen sailh, he hath known mint and butter, it helps the hoarseness of 

 many to be cured. Mitthiolus commends ; the throat, 

 the same to be put into hollow ulcers to heal | 

 them up, and it is good for chops in the | 



hands and feet, and to make rugged skin* 5 THESE are so well known that they need 

 smooth. The green corns of Wheat being 1 , no description. I shall therefore only shew 

 chewed, and applied to the place bitten by j you the virtues therof. 

 a mad dog, heals it ; slices of Wheat bread j Government and virtues!] The Moon 

 soaked in red rose water, and applied to j owns it. Both the leaves, bark, and the 

 the eyes that are hot, red, and inflamed, or j seed, are used to stanch, bleeding of wounds, 

 blood-shotten, helps them. Hot bread ap-<and at mouth and nose, spitting of blood, 

 plied for an hour, at times, for three days * and other fluxes of blood in man or woman, 

 together, perfectly heals the kernels in the \ and to stay vomiting, and provocation there- 

 throat, commonly called the king's evil, j unto, if the decoction of them in wine be 

 The flour of Wheat mixed with the juice of i drank. It helps also to stay thin, hot, sharp, 

 henbane, stays the flux of humours to the j salt distillations from the head upon the 

 joints, being laid thereon. The said meal | lungs, causing a consumption. The leaves 

 boiled in vinegar, helps the shrinking of the! bruised with some pepper, and drank in 

 sinews, saith Pliny; and mixed with vine- 1 wine, helps much the wind cholic. The 

 gar, and boiled together, heals all freckles, | leaves bruised and boiled in wine, and 

 spots and pimples on the face. Wheat \ drank, stays the heat of lust in man or 

 flour, mixed with the yolk of an egg, honey, j woman, and quite extinguishes it, if it be 

 and turpentine, doth draw, cleanse and heal Uong used: The seed also is of the same 

 any boil, plague, sore, or foul ulcer. The \ effect. Water that is gathered from the 



