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helps such as are given to much sighing,: Aqnilegia. Columbines: help sore throats, 

 easeth pains in the belly, provokes urine, j are of a drying, binding quality, 

 being taken inwardly : you may take a dram | Argentina. Silver- weed, or Wild Tansy 

 of it at a time in powder. Outwardly in | cold and dry almost in the third degiee; 

 oils or salves, it helps sinews that are shrunk ; j stops lasks, tluxes, and the menses, good 

 limbs out of joint, all aches and swellings; against ulcers, the stone, and inward Avounds: 

 coming of a cold cause. ! easeth gripings in the belly, fastens loose 



Angelica. Is hot and dry in the third de- j teeth : outwardly it takes away freckles, 

 gree; opens, digests, makes thin, strengthens j morphew, and sunburning, it takes awav 

 the heart, helps fluxes, and loathsomeness i inflammations, and bound to the wrists stop's 

 of meat. It is an enemy to poison and pes- \ the violence of the fits of the ague, 

 tilence, provokes menses, and brings away \ Artanita. Sow- bread: hot and dry in 

 the placanta. You may take a dram of it? the third degree, it is a dangerous purge: 

 at a time in powder. outwardly inointmentsittakesaway freckles, 



Anagallis, mas,femina. Pimpernel, male j sunburning, and the marks which the small 

 and female. They are something hot and j pox leaves behind them : dangerous for 

 dry, and of such a drying quality that they i pregnant women. 



draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh, ; Aristolochia, longa, rotunda. Birth-wort 

 amend the sight, cleanse ulcers, help in- \ long and round. See the roots, 

 fertilities of the liver and reins. Galen. Artemisia. Mugwort: is hot and dry in 



Anethum. Dill. Is hot and dry in the j the second degree : binding : an herb ap- 

 second degree. It stays vomiting, eases j propriated to the female sex; it brings down 



the menses, brings away both birth and 

 placenta, eases pains in the matrix. You 

 may take a dram at a time. 



hiccoughs, assuages swellings, provokes: 

 urine, helps such as are troubled with 

 fits of the mother, and digests raw humours. 



Apium. Smallage ; So it is commonly } Asparagus. See the roots, 

 used ; but indeed all Parsley is called by the \ Asarum, $c. Asarabacca : hot and dry ; 

 name of Apium, of which this is one kind. ! provokes vomiting and urine, and are good 

 Itis something hotter and dryer than Parsley, j for dropsies. They are corrected with mace 

 and more efficacious ; it opens stoppings of jor cinnamon. 



the liver, and spleen, cleanses the blood, | Atriplex, SfC. Orach, or Arrach. It is 

 provokes the menses, helps a cold stomach j cold in the first degree, and moist in the 

 to digest its meat, and is good against the | second, saith Galen, and makes the belly 

 yellowjaundice. Both Smallage and Clevers,) soluble. Itis an admirable remedy for the 

 may be well used in pottage in the morning | fits of the mother, and other infirmities of 



' the matrix, and therefore the Latins called 



instead of herbs. 



Aparine. Goose-grass, or Clevers : They 

 are meanly hot and dry, cleansing, help 

 the bitings of venomous beasts, keep men's ; 

 bodies from growing too fat, help theyel-i 



it Vulvaria. 



Aricula muris, major. Mouse-ear: hot 

 and dry, of a binding quality, it is admira- 

 ble to heal wounds, inward or outward, as 



low jaundice, stay bleeding, fluxes, and j also ruptures or burstness : Edge-tools 

 help green wounds. Dioscorides, Pliny, * quenched in the juice of it. will cut iron 

 Galen, Tragus. j without turning the edge, as easy as they 



Aspergula odorata. Wood-roof: Cheers* will lead : And, lastly, it helps the swelling 

 the heart, makes men merry, helps melan-iof the spleen, coughs and consumptions, of 

 .choly, and opens the stoppings of the liver, j the lungs. 



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