241 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



leaves, when they are young and tender, ; the boughs stuck about a chamber, wonder- 

 they are held to provoke urine. \ fully cool the air, and refresh such as have' 



Rosmarirum. Rosemary, hot and dry in i fevers ; the leaves applied to the head, 

 the second degree, binding, stops fluxes, j help hot diseases there, and frenzies 

 helps stuffings in the head, the yellow jaun- 1 Sampsucum. Marjoram, 

 dice, helps the memory, expels wind. Seej Sunicula. Sanicle; hot and dry in the 

 the flowers. Serapio, Dioscorides. j second degree, cleanses wounds and ulcers. 



Rosa soils. See the water. Saponaria. Sope-wort, or Bruise-wort, 



Rosa alba, rubra, Damascena. White, j vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers, 

 Red, and Damask Roses. ! and is of notable use in the veneral disease. 



Rumex. Dock ; All the ordinary sort of Satureia. Savory. Summer savory is 

 Docks are of a cool and drying substance, hot and dry in the third degree, Winter 

 and therefore stop fluxes; and the leaves i savory is not so hot, both of them expel 

 are seldom used in physic. | wind. 



Ritbits Idaus : Raspis, Raspberries, or 2 Sazifragia alba. White Saxifrage, breaks 

 Hind-berries : I know no great virtues in | wind, helps the cholic and stone, 

 the leaves. j Scabiosa. Scabious : hot and dry in the 



Ruta. Rue, or Herb of Grace ; hot and j second degree, cleanses the breast and lungs, 

 dry in the third degree, consumes the seed,; helps old rotten coughs, and difficulty of 

 and is an enemy to generation, helps dif-j breathing, provokes urine, and cleanses the 

 ficulty of breathing, and inflammations of: bladder of filthy stuff, breaks aposthumes, 

 the lungs, pains in the sides, inflammations \ and cures scabs and itch. Boil it in white 

 of the priapus and matrix, naught for preg- \ wine. 



nant women: no herb resists poison more. 1 Scariola. An Italian name for Succory. 

 It strengthens the heart exceedingly, and j Schccnanthus. Schcenanth, Squinanth, 

 no herb better than this in pestilential; or Chamel's hay; hot and binding. It 

 times, take it what manner you will or can. [ digests and opens the passages of the veins: 



Ruta Muraria. See Adianthum. j surely it is as great an expeller of wind as 



Sabina. Savin: hot and dry in the third j any is. 



degree, potently provokesthemenses,expels | Scordium. Water-Germander, hot and 

 both birth and afterbirth, they (boiled in \ dry, cleanses ulcers in the inward parts, it 

 oil and used in ointments) stay creeping \ provokes urine and the menses, opens 

 ulcers, scour away spots, freckles and sun- j stopping of the liver, spleen, reins, bladder, 

 burning from the face ; the belly anointed s and matrix, it is a great counter poison, and 

 with it kills worms in children. j eases the breast oppressed with flegm : see 



Salvia. Sage: hot and dry in the second 1 Diascordium. 



or third degree, binding, it stays abortion Scrophularia. Figwort, so called of 

 in such women as are subject to come before \ Scrophula^ the King's Evil, which it cures 

 their times, it causes fruitfulness, it is sin- 1 they say, by being only hung about the 

 gularly good for the brain, strengthens the \ neck. If not, bruise it, and apply it to 

 senses and memory, helps spitting and j the place, it helps the piles or hemorrhoids, 

 vomiting of blood : outwardly, heat hot I; Sedum. And all his sorts : see Barba 

 with a little vinegar and applied to the side, i Jovis. 



helps stitches <md pains in the sides. 



Senna. It heats in the second degree 



SalLr. Willow leaves, are cold, dry, and j and dries in the first, cleanses, purges, and 

 binding, stop spitting of blood, and fluxes; [digests; it carries downward both choler, 



