234 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Cardmis B. Marine. Our Ladies Thistles. 5 are drying and binding, help dimness of the 

 They are far more temperate than Carduus \ sight : help the spleen, preserve from 

 Benedictus, open obstructions of the liver, j drunkenness, and help the evil effects of it: 

 help the jaundice and dropsy, provoke \ provoke the menses, 

 urine, break the stone. Centaurium, majus^ minus. Centaury the 



Carduus Benedictus. Blessed Thistle, but j greater and less. They say the greater 

 better known by the Latin name : it is hot j will do wonders in curing wounds : see the 

 and dry in the second degree, cleansing and ? root. The less is a present remedy for the 

 opening, helps swimming and giddiness in j yellow jaundice, opens stoppings of the 

 the head, deafness, strengthens the memory, \ liver, gall, and spleen : purges choler, helps 

 helps griping pains in the belly, kills worms, j gout, clears the sight, purgeth the stomach, 

 provokes sweat, expels poison, helps in- j helps the dropsy and green sickness. It is 

 rlammation of the liver, is very good in j only the tops and flowers which are useful, 

 pestilence and venereal: outwardly applied, of which you may take a dram inwardly in 

 it ripens plague-sores, and helps hot swell- \ powder, or half a handful boiled in posset- 

 ings, the bitings of mad dogs and venomous i drink at a time. 



beasts, and foul filthy ulcers. Every one j Centinodittm, fyc. Knotgrass : cold in the 

 that can but make a Carduus posset, knows ; second degree, helps spitting and other 

 how to use it. Cdmerarius, Arnuldus vel evacuations of blood, stops the menses and 

 anovanus. \ all other fluxes of blood, vomiting of blood, 



Chalina. See the roots, under the name j gonorrhea, or running of the reins, weak- 

 of white Chameleon. j ness of the back and joints, inflammations 



Corallina. A kind of Sea Moss : cold, j of the privities, and such as make water by 

 binding, drying, good for hot gouts, in- \ drops, and it is an excellent remedy for 

 flammations : also they say it kills worms, j hogs that will not eat their meat. Your 



and therefore by some is called Maw- worm- 

 seed. 



Cussutha, cascuta, potagralini. Dodder. 

 See Epithimum. 



only way is to boil it, it is in its prime about 

 the latter end of July, or beginning of 

 August : at which time being gathered it 

 may be kept dry all the year. Brassavolux, 



Caryophyllata. Avens, or Herb Bennet, \ Camerarius. 

 hot and dry : they help the cholic, rawness ; Caryfolium vulgare et Myrrhis. Common 

 of the stomach, stitches in the sides, : and great chervil: Take them both together, 

 stoppings of the liver, and bruises. | and they are temperately hot and dry, pro- 



Cataputia minor. A kind of Spurge. See j voke urine, stir up venery, comfort the 

 Tythymalus. \ heart, and are good for old people ; help 



Cattaria, Nepeta. Nep, or Catmints. ! pleurises and pricking in the sides. 

 The virtues are the same with Calaminth. Capea^ Anagallis aquatica. Brooklime, 



Cauda Equina. Horse-tail; is of a bind- hot and dry, but not so hot and dry as 

 ing drying quality, cures wounds, and is an j Water cresses ; they help mangy horses ; 

 admirableremedy for sinews that are shrunk: j see Water cresses. 



it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the nose, j Ceterach, $c. Spleenwort : moderately 

 or by wound, stops the menses, fluxes, j hot, waste and consumes the spleen, inso- 

 ulcers in the reins and bladder, coughs, j much that Vitruvius affirms he hath known 

 ulcers in the lungs, difficulty of breathing, j hogs that have fed upon it, that have had 



Caulis, Brassica hortensis, sihestris. Cole- j (when they were killed) no spleens at all. 

 wort, or Cabbages, garden and wild. They { It is excellently good for melancholy people. 



