240 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Lens palustris. Duckmeat : Cold and \ provoke urine , the young sprouts open 

 moist in the second degree, helps inflamrna- ; stoppings of the liver and spleen, cleanse 

 tions, hot swellings, and the falling out of | the blood, clear the skin, help scabs and 

 the fundament, being warmed and applied J itch, help agues, purge choler: they are 

 to the place. { usually boiled and taken as they eat asparagus, 



Lcpidium Piperites. Dittander, Pepper- \ but if you would keep them, for they are 

 wort, or Scar-wort : A hot fiery sharp herb, j excellent for these diseases, you may make 

 admirable for the gout being applied to the \ them into a conserve, or into a syrup, 

 place : being only held in the hand, it helps j Lychnitis Coronaria : or as others write 

 the tooth-ache, and withall leaves a wan jit, Lychnis. Rose Campion. I know no 

 colour in the hand that holds it. I great physical virtue it hath. 



Livisticum. Lovage. Clears the sight, ! Mads. See the barks, 

 takes away redness and freckles from the I Magistrantia. $c. Masterwort. Hot and 

 face. i dry in the third degree : it is good against 



Libanotis Coronaria. See Rosemary. ; poison, pestilence, corrupt and unwhole- 



Linaria. Toad-flax, or Wild-flax: hot I some air, helps windiness in the stomach, 

 and dry, cleanses the reins and bladder, \ causeth an appetite to one's victuals, very 

 provokes urine, opens the stoppings of the \ profitable in falls and bruises, congealed 

 liver and spleen, and helps diseases coming j and clotted blood, the bitings of mad-dogs; 

 thereof: outwardly it takes away yellow- i the leaves chewed in the mouth, cleanse the 

 ness and deformity of the skin. \ brain of superfluous humours, thereby pre- 



Lillium convallium. Lilly of the Valley. 5 venting lethargies, and apoplexes. 

 See the flowers. Malva. Mallows. The best of Authors 



Lingua Cervina. Hart's-tongue : drying | account wild Mallows to be best, and hold 

 and binding, stops blood, the menses and j them to be cold and moist in the first degree, 

 fluxes, opens stoppings of the liver and [ they are profitable in the bitings of venom- 

 spleen, and diseases thence arising. The j ous beasts, the stinging of bees and wasps, 

 like quantity of Hart's-tongue, Knotgrass j &c. Inwardly they resist poison, provoke 

 and Comfrey Roots, being boiled in water, to stool ; outwardly they assuage hard 



and a draught of the decoction drunk every 

 morning, and the materials which have 

 boiled applied to the place, is a notable 

 remedy for such as are bursten. 



Limonium. Sea-bugloss, or Marsh-bug- 

 loss, or Sea-Lavender; the seeds being very 

 drying and binding, slop fluxes and the 

 menses, help the cholic and stranguary. 



swellings of the privities or other places; in 

 clysters they help roughness and fretting of 

 the entrails, bladder, or fundament ; and so 

 they do being boiled in water, and the 

 decoction drank, as I have proved in the 

 bloody flux. 



Majorana. See Amaraeus. 



Mandragora. Mandrakes. Fit for no 



Lotus urbana. Authors make some flutter j vulgar use, but only to be used in cooling 

 about this herb, I conceive the best take \t\ ointments. 



to be Trisolium Odoratum, Sweet TrefoylJ Marrubium, album, nigrum, fcetidum. 

 which is of a temperate nature, cleanses | Marrubium album, is common Horehound. 

 the eyes gently of such things as hinder the 1 Hot in the second degree, and dry in the 

 sight, cures green wounds, ruptures, or j third, opens the liver and spleen, cleanses 

 burstness, helps such as urine blood or are! the breast and lungs, helps old coughs, 

 bruised, and secures garments from moths. ! pains in the sides, ptisicks, or ulceration of 



Lupidus. Hops. Opening, cleansing, j the lungs, it provokes the menses, eases 



