242 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



help the scurvy, provoke urine and the travel four days without either meat or 

 menses, break the stone, help the green-sick- j drink, by only chewing a little of this in 



ness, cause a fresh lively colour. 



Nasturtium Alhum, Thlaspie. Treacle- 

 mustard. Hot and dry in the third degree, 

 purges violently, dangerous for pregnant 

 women. Outwardly it is applied with profit 



their mouths : It eases the body o* super- 

 fluous humours, opens stoppings See the 

 ointment of Tobacco. 



Nummularia. Money-wort, or Herb 

 Two-pence; cold, dry, binding, helps fluxes, 



to the gout. | stops the menses, helps ulcers in the lungs ; 



Nicorimi. Tobacco. It is hot and dry * outwardly it is a special herb for wounds, 

 in the second degree, and of a cleansing \ Nymphea. See the flowers, 

 nature : the leaves warmed and applied to * Ocynum. Basil, hot and moist. The best 

 the head, are excellently good in inveterate j use that I know of it, is, it gives speedy 

 head-aches and megrims, if the diseases | deliverance to women in travail. Let them 

 come through cold or wind, change them | not take above half a dram of it at a time 

 often till the diseases be gone, help such j in powder, and be sure also the birth be 

 whose necks be stiff: it eases the faults of tripe, else it causes abortion, 

 the breast : Asthma's or head-flegm in the \ Olea folia. Olive leaves : they are hard 

 lappets of the lungs : eases the pains of the i to come by here. 



stomach and windiness thereof: being heated | Ononis. Restharrow. See the roots, 

 by the fire, and applied hot to the side, they \ Ophioglossum. Adder's-tongue. The leaves 

 loosen the belly, and kill worms being ap- \ are very drying : being boiled in oil they 

 plied unto it in like manner : they break | make a dainty green balsam for green 

 the stone being applied in like manner to j wounds : taken inwardly, they help inward 

 the region of the bladder : help the rickets, j wounds. 



being applied to the belly and sides: applied ] Origanum. Origany: a kind of wild 

 to the navel, they give present ease to the | Marjoram ; hot and dry in the third degree, 

 fits of the mother : they take away cold i helps the bi tings of venomous beasts, such 

 aches in the joints applied to them : boiled, j as have taken Opium, Hemlock, or Poppy ; 

 the liquor absolutely and speedily cures ) provokes urine, brings down the menses, 

 scabs and itch: neither is there any better? helps old coughs; in an ointment it helps 

 salve in the world for wounds than may be | scabs and itch. 



made of it : for it cleanses, fetches out the i Oxylapathum. Sorrel. See Acetosa. 

 filth though it lie in the bones, brings up the j Papaver, $c. Poppies, white, black, or 

 flesh from the bottom, and all this it doth J erratick. I refer you to the syrups of each, 

 speedily : it cures wounds made with poi- j Parietaria. Given once before under the 

 soned weapons, and for this Clusius brings name of Helxine. 



many experiences too tedious here to relate. 

 It is an admirable thing for carbuncles and 



Pastirwea. Parsnips. See the roots. 

 Persicaria. See Hydropiper. This is the 



plague-sores, inferior to none : green wounds ; milder sort of Arsmart I described there: 

 'twill cure in a trice : ulcers and gangreens j If ever you find it amongst the compounds, 

 very speedily, not only in men, but also in j take it under that notion, 

 beasts, therefore the Indians dedicated it to j Pentaphyllium. Cinquefoil : very drying, 

 their god. Taken in a pipe, it hath almost! yet but meanly hot, if at all ; helps ulcers 

 as many virtues ; it easeth weariness, takes j in the mouth, roughness of the wind-pipe 

 away the sense of hunger and thirst, pro- j (whence comes hoarsness and coughs, &c.) 

 vokes to stool : he saith, the Indians will ! helps fluxes, creeping ulcers, and the yellow 



