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helps the stranguary, provokes urine, and \ Cinara, $c. Artichokes. They provoke 

 breaks the stone in the bladder, boil it and | venery, and purge by urine, 

 drink the decoction; but because a little Cichorium. Succory, to which add Endive 

 boiling will carry away the strength of it in j which comes after. They are cold and dry 

 vapours, let it boil but very little, and let it j in the second degree, cleansing and open- 

 stand close stopped till it be cold before j ing ; they cool the heats of the liver, and 

 you strain it out ; this is the general rule ] are profitable in the yellow jaundice, and 



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the 



for all simples of this nature. 



Chamapitys. Ground-pine; hoi 

 second degree, arid dry in the third, helps 

 the jaundice, sciatica, stopping of the liver, 

 and spleen, provokes the menses, cleanses 

 the entrails, dissolves congealed blood, re- 



sists poison, cures wounds and ulcers. Jire, or any eating ulcers. 



Strong bodies may take a dram, and weak 

 bodies half a dram of it in powder at a 

 time. 



Chamcemelum, sativum 9 sylvestre. Garden 

 and Wild Chamomel. Garden Chamomel, 

 is hot and dry in the first degree, and as 



burning fevers ; help excoriations in the 

 privities, hot stomachs ; and outwardly ap- 

 plied, help hot rheums in the eyes. 



Cicuta. Hemlock : cold in the fourth 

 degree, poisonous : outwardly applied, it 

 helps Priapismus, the shingles, St. Anthony's 



Clematis Daphnoides, Vinca provinca. Peri- 

 winkle. Hot in the second degree, some- 

 thing dry and binding ; stops lasks, spitting 

 of blood, and the menses. 



Consolida major. Comfrey, I do not con- 

 ceive the leaves to be so virtuous as the 



gallant a medicine against the stone in the j roots. 



bladder as grows upon the earth, you may Consolida media. Bugles, of which before. 



take it inwardly, I mean the decoction of 



it, being boiled in white wine, or inject the 



juice of it into the bladder with a syringe. 



It expels wind, helps belchings, and potent- 

 ly provokes the menses : used in baths, it 

 helps pains in the sides, gripings and 

 gnawings in the belly. 



Consolida minima. Daises. 



Consolida rubra. Golden Rod : hot and 

 dry in the second degree, cleanses the reins, 

 provokes urine, brings away the gravel : 

 an admirable herb for wounded people to 

 take inwardly, stops blood, &c. 



Consolida Regalis, Delphinium. Lark 



ChamcEdrtS) fyc. Germander : hot and i heels : resist poison, help the bitings of 



dry in the third degree ; cuts and brings 

 away tough humours, opens stoppings of the 

 liver and spleen, helps coughs and shortness 

 of breath, stranguary and stopping of urine, 



venomous beasts. 



Saracenica Solidago. Saracens Confound. 

 Helps inward wounds, sore mouths, sore 

 throats, wasting of the lungs, and liver. 



and provokes the menses ; half a dram is 

 enough to take at a time. 



Chelidonium utrumque. Celandine both! 



sorts. Small Celandine is usually called or applied to the wound : helps the cholic, 

 Pilewort; it is something hotter and dryer] breaks the stone. JEgineta. 



Coronepus. Buchorn Plantane, or Sea- 

 plantain : cold and dry, helps the bitings 

 of venomous beasts, either taken inwardly, 



than the former, it helps the hemorrhoids 

 or piles, bruised and applied to the grief. 



Coronaria. Hath got many English 

 names. Cottonweed, Cudweed, Chaffweed, 



Celandine the greater is hot and dry (they and Petty Cotton. Of a drying and bind- 

 say in the third degree) any way used ; j ing nature ; boiled in lye, it keeps the head 

 either the juice or made into an oil or oint- 1 from nits and lice; being laid among 

 ment, it is a great preserver of the sight, \ clothes, it keeps them safe from moths, 

 and an excellent help for the eyes. \ kills worms, helps the bitings of venomous 



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