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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



dry and binding, cuts tough humours, cools ( held to be more cordial ; cools the blood. 



the brain, liver and stomach, cools the 

 blood in fevers, and provokes appetite. 



helps ulcers in the mouth ; hot defluxions 

 upon the lungs, wounds, ulcers, &c. 



Alcea. Vervain Mallow. The root helps 



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Acanthus. Bears-breech, or Branks 



ursine, is temperate, something moist. See fluxes and burstness. JEtius, Dioscorides. 

 the root. Album. Garlick. Hot and dry in the 



Adiantum, Album, mgrum. Maiden hair, | fourth degree, troublesome to the stomach; 

 white and black. They are temperate, yet I it dulls the sight, spoils a clear skin, resists 

 drying. White Maiden hair is that we I poison, eases the pains of the teeth, helps 

 usually call Wall -rue ; they both open ob-jthe bitings of mad clogs, and venomous 

 structions, cleanse the breast and lungs of' beasts, helps ulcers, leprosies, provokes 

 gross slimy humours, provoke urine, help; urine, is exceedingly opening, and profita- 

 ruptures and shortness of wind. | ble for dropsies. 



Adiantum Aurcum Politrycwn. Golden j Althaa, fyc. Marsh-Mallows. Are mocle- 

 Maiden-hair. Its temperature and virtues irately hot and drier than other Mallows; they 

 are the same with the former ; helps the j help digestion, and mitigate pain, ease the 

 spleen ; burned, and lye made with the I pains of the stone, and in the sides. Use 



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ashes, keeps the hair from falling oif the 

 head. 



Agrimonia Agrimony. Galen's Eupa- 

 torium. It is hot and dry in the first degree, { Alsine. Chickweed. Is cold and moist 



them as you were taught in the roots, whose 

 virtues they have, and both together will 

 do better. 



binding, it amends the infirmities of the 

 liver, helps such as evacuate blood instead 



without any binding, assuages swelling 



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and comforts the sinews much ; therefore it 



of water, helps inward wounds, opens is good for such as are shrunk up ; it dis- 

 obstructions. Outwardly applied it helps* solves aposthumes, hard swellings, and 

 old sores, ulcers, &c. Inwardly, it helps 5 helps mange in the hands and legs, out- 

 the jaundice and the spleen. Take a dram j wardly applied in a pultis. Galen. 

 of this or that following, inwardly in white j Alchymilla. Ladies-Mantle. Is hot and 

 wine, or boil the herb in white wine, and \ dry, some say in the second degree, some 

 drink the decoction. Galen, Pliny, Diosco-\ say in the third: outwardly it helps wounds, 

 rides, Serapio. \ reduces women's breasts that hang down : 



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Ageretum. Hot and dry in the second de- 

 gree, provokes urine and the menses, dries 

 he brain, opens stoppings, helps the green 



inwardly, helps bruises, and ruptures, stays 

 vomiting, and the Fluor Albus, and is very 

 profitable for such women as are subject to 



sickness, and profits such as have a cold, ! miscarry through cold and moisture, 

 weak liver ; outwardly applied, it takes i Alkanna. Privet hath a binding quality, 

 away the hardness of the matrix, and fills I helps ulcers in the mouth, is good against 

 hollow ulcers with flesh. | burnings and scaldings, cherishes the nerves 



Agnus Castus, $c. Chast-tree. The leaves 1 and sinews ; boil it in white wine to wash 



are hot and dry in the third degree ; expel 

 wind, consume the seed, cause chastity 

 being only borne about one ; it dissolves 

 swellings of the testicles, being applied to 

 them, head-ache, and lethargy. 



Allajula, Lujula, $c. Wood Sorrel. It 

 is of the temperature of other Sorrel, and 



the mouth, and in hog's grease for burnings 

 and scaldings. 



Amaracus, Major ana. Marjoram. Some 

 say 'tis hot and dry in the second degree, 

 some advance it to the third. Sweet Mar- 

 joram, is an excellent remedy for cold dis- 

 eases in the brain, being only smelled to 



