218 



THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



fasting, in a decoction made with the same 

 root and water. 



Acori, Veri, Perigrini, vulgaris, Sfc. See 

 Calamus Aromaticus. I shall not speak con- 

 cerning the several sorts of it, one of which 

 is Water-flag, or Flower-de-luce, which is: 

 hot and dry in the second degree, binds,: 



vulsions ; both of them resist poison. I 

 never read any use of the climing birth- 

 wort. 



Artanitte, Cyclamims, $c. Or Sowbread ; 

 hot and dry in the third degree, a most 

 violent purge, dangerous; outwardly ap- 

 plied to the place, it profits much in the 



strengthens, stops fluxes of the belly, and; bitings of venomous beasts, also being hung 

 immoderate flowing of the menses, a dram | about women in labour, it causes speedy 

 being taken in red wine every morning. \ deliverance. See the Herb. 



Allhim. Garlic. It is hot and dry in the Arundinis, Fallanorue, and Saccharines. 



Of common reeds and sugar reeds. The 

 roots of common reeds applied to the place 

 draw 



See the leaves. 



out thorns, and ease sprains ; the 

 ashes of them mixed with vinegar, take 

 scurf, or dandrif off from the head, and 

 prevent the falling off of the hair, they are 



fourth degree, breeds corrupt blood, yet is 

 an enemy to all poisons, and such as are 

 bitten by cold venomous beasts, viz. Adders, j 

 Toads, Spiders, &c. it provokes urine, and 

 expels wind. 



Alcanna. Of privet. 



Althtece. Of Marsh mallows, are meanly i hot and dry in the~second degree, according 

 hot, of a digesting, softening nature, ease to Galen. I never read any virtue of the 

 pains, help bloody fluxes, the stone, and t root of sugar cane. 



gravel ; being bruised and boiled in milk, j Ari, fyc. Of Cuckow-points, or Wake- 

 and the milk drank, is a good remedy for gri- \ Robin, hot and dry in the third degree, 

 pings of the belly, and the bloody flux. If! I know no great good they do inwardly 

 a fever accompany the disease, boil a hand- j taken, unless to play the rogue withal, or 

 ful of common mallow leaves with a hand- ! make sport : outwardly applied, they take 

 ful of these roots. j off scurf, morphew, or freckles from the 



Angelica. Of Angelica; is hot and dry \ face, clear the skin, and ease the pains 

 the third degree, strengthens the heart, j of the gout. 



m 



and is good against pestilence and poison, 5 Asclepiadis,vincetoxici. Of Swallow-wort, 

 half a dram taken in the morning fasting. : hot and dry, good against poison, and 



the 



Anchusce. Of Alkanet ; cold and dry, 

 binding, good for old ulcers. 



Anthora. A foreign root, the counter- 

 poison for Monkshood, it is an admirable 

 remedy for the wind cholic, and resists 

 poison. 



Apii. Of smallage. See the barks. 



AristolochUE. Of birthwort; of which are 

 three sorts, long, round, and climing : All 

 hot and dry in the third degree. The long, 



brings 



poison, 



gripings of the belly, as also against 

 bitings of mad dogs, taken inwardly. 



Asari. Of Asarabacca : the roots are 

 a safer purge than the leaves, and not so 

 violent, they purge by vomit, stool, and 

 urine ; they are profitable for such as have 

 agues, dropsies, stoppings of the liver, or 

 spleen, green sickness. 



Asparagi. Of Asparagus, or sperage: 

 they are temperate in quality, opening, 

 they provoke urine, and cleanse the reins 



boiled in white wine, 



being drank in wine, brings away both 

 birth and after-birth, and whatsoever a care- 1 and bladder, being 

 .less midwife hath left behind. Dioscorides, s and the wine drank. 



Galen. The round, being drank with wine, f Asphodeli, Hasta Reiga fam. Of Kings 

 helps (besides the former) stuffings of the | Spear, or Female Asphodel. I know no 

 lungs, hardness of the spleen, ruptures, con- 1 physical use of the roots ; probably there 



