220 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



cramps: half a dram in powder be-|it opens obstructions of the liver, being 

 ing taken inwardly, either in muskadel,! boiled in white wine, and the decoctions 

 or in a decoction of the same roots, j drank; and if chewed in the mouth it helps 

 They are either not at all, or very scarce j the tooth-ache. Celandine the lesser is 

 in England, our centaury is the small cen-jthat which usually we call Pilewort, which 

 tuary. with us is hot in the first degree ; the juice 



Cepoe. Of Onions. Are hot and dry \ of the root mised wilh honey and snuffed 

 (according to Galen) in the fourth degree :\ up in the nose, purges the head, helps the 

 they cause dry ness, and are extremely hurt- j hemorrhoids or piles being bathed with it, 

 ful for choleric people, they breed but little^ as also doth the root only carried about one: 

 nourishment, and that little is naught: they j being made into an ointment, it helps the 

 are bad meat, yet good physic for phleg-j king's evil or Scrophnla. 

 malic people, they are opening, and pro-1 China, wonderfully extenuates and dries, 

 voke urine and the menses, if cold be the provokes sweat, resists putrefaction; it 

 cause obstructing: bruised and outwardly strengthens the liver, helps the dropsy and 

 applied, they cure the bitings of mad dogs, j malignant ulcers, leprosy, itch, and vene- 

 roasted and applied, they help boils, and I real, and is profitable in diseases coming of 

 aposthumes : raw, they take the fire out of | fasting. It is commonly used in diet drinks 

 burnings, but ordinarily eaten, they cause j for the premises. 



headache, spoil the sight, dull the senses,! Cichorii. Of Succory; cool and dry in 

 and fill the body full of wind. : the second degree, strengthens the liver and 



Chameleontis albi mgri, $c. Of Chame- j veins, it opens obstructions, stoppings in the 



Icon, white and black. Tragus calls the J liver and spleen, being boiled in white wine 



carline thistle by the name of white chame- \ and the decoction drank. 



leon, the root whereof is hot in the second \ Colchici. Of Meadow Saffron. The 



degree, and dry in the third, it provokes \ roots are held to be hurtful to the stomach, 



sweat, kills worms, resists pestilence and { therefore I let them alone. 



poison ; it is given with success in pestilen- i Consolidte, majoris, minoris. Consolida 



tial fevers, helps the toothache by being \ Major, is that which we ordinarily call 



chewed in the mouth, opens the stoppings jComfry, it is of a cold quality, yet pretty 



of the liver and spleen, provokes urine, and : temperate, so glutinous, that, according to 



the menses : give but little of it at a time. j Dioscorides, they will join meat together 



by reason of its heat. As for the black! that is cut in sunder, if they be boiled with 



chameleon, all physicians hold it to have 5 it ; it is excellent for all wounds, both in- 



a kind of venomous quality, and unfit to belternal and external, for spitting of blood, 



used inwardly, Galen, Clusius, Nicander, \ ruptures or burstness, pains in the back, it 



Dioscorides, and JEgineta. Outwardly in j strengthens the reins, it stops the menses, 



ointments, it is profitable for scabs, mor- j and helps hemorrhoids. The way to use 



phew, tetters, &c. and all things that need j them is to boil them in water and drink the 



cleansing. i decoction. Consolida minor, is that we 



Chelidonij majoris, minoris. Of celandine, j call Self-heal, and the latins Prunella. See 



the greater and lesser : The greater is that | the herb. 



which we usuaUy call Celandine : the root ; Costi utriusque. Of Costus both sorts 

 is hot and dry, cleansing and scouring, ? being roots coming from beyond sea, hoi 

 proper for such as have the yellow jaundice, land dry, break wind, being boiled in oil, 



