232 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Attractivis hirsuta. Wild Bastard-saffron, \ Betony : hot and dry in the second degree, 

 Distaff- thistle, or Spindle-thistle. Is dry and ; helps the falling sickness and all head-aches 

 moderately digesting, helps the biting of | coming of cold, cleanses the breast and 

 venomous beasts : Mesue saith, it is hot in j lungs, opens stoppings of the liver and 

 the first degree, and dry in the second, and | spleen, as the rickets, &c. procures appetite, 

 cleanseth the breast and lungs of tough \ helps sour belchings, provokes urine, breaks 

 flegm. | the stone, mitigates the pains of the reins 



Balsamita, <fyc. Costmary, Alecost: See; and bladder, helps cramps, and convul- 

 Maudlin. : sions, resists poison, helps the gout, such as 



Barbajovis, sedum majus. Houseleek or {evacuate blood, madness and head-ache, 

 Sengreen : cold in the third degree, pro- j kills worms, helps bruises, and cleanseth 

 fitable against the Shingles, and other hot j women after labour : You may take a dram 

 creeping ulcers, inflammations, St. Anthony s \ of it at a time in white wine, or any other 

 fire, frenzies ; it cools and takes away corns \ convenient liquor proper against the dis- 

 from the toes, being bathed with the juice j ease you are afflicted with, 

 of it, and a skin of the leaf laid over the 1 Betonica Pauli, &>c. Paul's Betony, or 

 place; stops fluxes, helps scalding and j Male Lluellin, to which add Elaine, or 

 burning. \ Female Lluellin, which comes afterwards ; 



Bardana. Clot-bur, or Bur-dock : tern- j they are pretty temperate, stop defluxions 

 perately dry and wasting, something cool- j of humours that fall from the head into the 

 ing ; it is held to be good against the shrink- \ eyes, are profitable in wounds, help filthy 

 ing of the sinews; eases pains in the bladder, \ foul eating cankers. 



and provokes urine. Also Mizaldus saith, ; Betonica Coronana, S^c. Is Clove Gilli- 

 that a leaf applied to the top of the head of; flowers. See the flowers. 

 a woman draws the matrix upwards, but 1 Bellis. Dasies : are cold and moist in 

 applied to the soles of the feet draws it \ the second degree, they ease all pains and 

 downwards, and is therefore an admirable \ swellings coming of heat, in clysters they 

 remedy for suffocations, precipitations, and : loose the belly , are profitable in fevers and 

 dislocations of the matrix, if a wise man | inflammations of the testicles, they take 

 have but the using of it. | away bruises, and blackness and blueness ; 



Beta, alba, nigra, rubra. Beets, white, \ they are admirable in wounds and inflam- 

 black, and red ; black Beets I have no : mations of the lungs or blood 

 knowledge of. The white are something j Blitinn. Elites. Some say they are cold 

 colder and moister than the red, both of: and moist, others cold and dry : none 

 them loosen the belly, but have little or no J mention any great virtues of them, 

 nourishment. The white provoke to stool, j Borrago. Borrage : hot and moist, com- 

 and are more cleansing, open stoppings of : forts the heart, cheers the spirits, drives 

 the liver and spleen, help the vertigo or; away sadness and melancholy, they are 

 swimming in the head : The red stay fluxes, I rather laxative than binding; help swooning 

 help the immoderate flowing of the menses, j and heart-qualms, breed good blood, help 

 and are good in the yellow jaundice. ; consumptions, madness, and such as are 



Beuedicta CariphylLa-a. Avens : hot and ; much weakened by sickness, 

 dry, help the cholic and rawness of the> Bonus Henricus. Good Henry, or all 

 stomach, stitches in the sides, and take away ; good ; hot and dry, cleansing and scouring ; 

 clotted blood in any part of the body. i inwardly taken it loosens the belly; out- 



Betonica vulgaris. Common or Wood ? wardly it cleanseth old sores and ulcers. 



