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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot ; helps 

 the wind cholic, pains in the belly, stone in 

 the reins and bladder, and is good in rup- 

 tures, and inward wounds. I suppose these 

 are the general virtues of them all. 



Gramen. Grass : See the root. 



Gratiola. Hedge-Hyssop, purges water 

 and flegm, but works very churlishly. 

 Gesner commends it in dropsies. 



Asphodelus fcem. See the root. 



Hepatica, Lichen. Liverwort, cold and 

 dry, good for inflammations of the liver, 

 or any other inflammations, yellow jaundice. 



Hedera Arborea, Terrostris. Tree and 

 Ground-Ivy. Tree-Ivy helps ulcers, burn- 

 ings, scaldings, the bad effects of the spleen ; 

 the juice snuffed up the nose, purges the 

 head, it is admirable for surfeits or head- 

 ache, or any other ill effects coming of 

 drunkenness. Ground-Ivy is that which 

 usually is called Alehoof, hot and dry, the 

 juice helps noise in the ears, fistula's, gouts, 

 stoppings of the liver, it strengthens the 

 reins and stops the menses, helps the yellow 

 jaundice, and other diseases coming of 

 stoppings of the liver, and is excellent for 

 wounded people. 



Herba Camphorata. Stinking Ground- 

 pine, is of a drying quality, and therefore 

 stops defluxions either in the eyes or upon 

 the lungs, the gout, cramps, palsies, aches : 

 strengthens the nerves. 



Herbu Paralysis, Primula veris. Prim- 

 roses, or Cowslips, which you will. The 

 leaves help pains in the head and joints ; 

 see the flowers which are most in use. 



Herba Paris. Herb True-love, or One- 

 berry. It is good for wounds, falls, bruises, 

 aposthumes, inflammations, ulcers in the 

 privities. Herb True-love, is very cold in 

 temperature. You may take half a dram 

 of it at a time in powder. 



Herba Roberti. A kind of Cranebill. 



Herba venti^ Anemone. Wind-flower. The 

 juice snuffed up in the nose purgeth the 

 head, it cleanses filthy ulcers, encreases 



i milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment 

 , helps leprosies. 



| Herntaria. The same with Empetron. 

 \ Hehine. Pellitory of the wall. Cold, 

 j moist, cleansing, helps the stone and gravel 

 in the kidnies, difficulty of urine, sore 

 throats, pains in the ears, the juice being 

 dropped in them ; outwardly it helps the 

 } shingles and St. Anthony s fire. 



Hyppoglossnm. Horse-tongue, Tongue- 

 : blade or Double-Tongue. The roots help 

 ; the stranguary, provoke urine, ease the 

 I hard labour of women, provoke the menses, 

 i the herb helps ruptures and the fits of the 

 ' mother : it is hot in the second degree, dry 

 in the first : boil it in white wine. 



Hyppolapathum. Patience, or Monk's 

 Rhubarb : see the Root. 



Hypposclinum. Alexanders, or Alisan- 

 ders : provoke urine, expel the placenta, 

 help the stranguary, expel wind. 



Sage either taken inwardly or beaten and 

 applied plaister-wise to the matrix, draws 

 forth both menses and placenta. 



Horminum. Clary : hot and dry in the 

 third degree; helps the weakness in the 

 back, stops the running of the reins, and 

 the Fluor Albus, provokes the menses, and 

 helps women that are barren through cold- 

 ness or moisture, or both : causes fruitful- 

 ness, but is hurtful for the memory. The 

 usual way of taking it is to fry it with but- 

 ter, or make a tansy with it. 



Hydropiper. Arsmart. Hot and dry, 

 consumes all coJd swellings and blood con- 

 gealed by bruises, and stripes ; applied to 

 the place, it helps that aposthume in the 

 | joints, commonly called a felon : strewed 

 in a chamber, kills all the fleas there : this 

 is hottest Arsmart, and is unfit to be given 

 inwardly : there is a milder sort, called 

 Persicaria, which is of a cooler and milder 

 quality, drying, excellently good for putri- 

 ned ulcers, kills worms : I had almost for- 

 got that the former is an admirable remedy 

 for the gout, being roasted between two 



