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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Thymum. Thyme. Hot and dry in the 

 third degree; helps coughs and shortness of 

 breath, provokes the menses, brings away 

 dead children and the after birth ; purges ; 

 flegm, cleanses the breast and lungs, reins \ 

 and matrix ; helps the sciatica, pains in ; 

 the breast, expels wind in any part of the 



body, resists fearfulness and melancholy, I hung about the neck 

 continual pains in the head, and is profita- : ~-* ; - 

 ble for such as have the falling-sickness to 



smell to. 



Thijmtelea. The Greek name for Spurge- 

 Olive : Mezereon being the Arabick name. 



Tithymallus, Esula, fyc. Spurge. Hot 

 and dry in the fourth degree : a dogged 

 purge, better let alone than taken inwardly: 

 hair anointed with the juice of it will fall 

 oft': it kills fish, being mixed with any 

 thing that they will eat: outwardly 

 cleanses ulcers, takes away freckles, 

 burning and morphew from the face. 



Tormentilla. See the root. 



a digesting, cleansing quality, stops fluxes 

 and the hemorrhoids, it cures hoarseness, 

 the cough, and such as are broken winded 

 Verbena, Vervain : hot and dry, a great 

 opener, cleanser, healer, it helps the yellow 

 jaundice, defects in the reins and bladder, 

 pains in the head ; if it be but bruised and 



all diseases in the 

 made into an ointment it is a 

 remedy for old head-aches, as 

 frenzies, it clears the skin, and causes 



privities 

 sovereign 

 1 also 



it 



a lovely colour. 



Voronica. See Betonica Pauli. 



Violaria. Violet Leaves : they are cool, 

 ease pains in the head proceeding of heat 

 and frenzies, either inwardly taken, or out- 

 wardly applied ; heat of the stomach, or in- 

 flammation of thl lungs. 



Vitis Viniseria. 



The manured Vine : the 



sun- leaves are binding and cool withal ; the 

 ( burnt ashes of the sticks of a vine, scour 

 the teeth and make them as white as snow 

 bleeding, 



Trinitatis herba. Pansies, or Heart's- j the leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heart- 

 ease : They are cold and moist, both herbs j burnings, vomitings ; as also the longings 

 and flowers, excellent against inflammations \ of pregnant women. The coals of a burnt 

 of the breast or lungs, convulsions or fall- t Vine, in powder, mixed with honey, doth 

 ing-sickness, also they are held to be good j make the teeth as white as ivory, which are 

 for venereal complaints. \ rubbed with it. 



Trifolium. Trefoil: dry in the third I Vincitoxicum. Swallow-wort. A pultis 

 degree, and cold : The ordinary Meadow \ made with the leaves helps sore breasts, and 

 Trefoil, cleanses the bowelsof slimy humours | also soreness of the matrix, 

 that stick to them, being used either in \ Virga Pastoris. A third name for Tea- 

 drinks or clysters ; outwardly they take \ zles. See Dipsatus. 

 away inflammations. Virga Aurea. See Consolida. 



Tussilago. Colt's-foot : something cold j Ulmaria. See the root. Meadsweet. 

 and dry, and therefore good for inflamma- \ Umbslicus Veneris. Navil-wort : Cold, 

 tions, they are admirably good for coughs, j dry, and binding, therefore helps all iri- 

 and consumptions of the lungs, shortness s flammations ; they are very good for kibed 

 of breath, &c. It is often used and with \ heels, being bathed with it and a leaf laid 

 good success taken in a tobacco-pipe, being \ over the sore. 



cut and mixed with a little oil of annis | Urtica. Nettles: an herb so Avell known, 

 seeds. See the Syrup of Colt's-foot. \ that you may find them by the feeling in 



Valeriana. Valerian, or Setwall. See { the darkest night : they are something hot, 



the roots. j not very hot ; the juice stops bleeding ; 



Verbascum, Thapsus Barbatits. Mullin, they provoke lust, help difficulty of breath- 



or Higtaper, It is something dry, and of | ing, pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, 



