272 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



wine it provokes the menses, helps the bitings j turcs in the skull and head. See Arceus' 

 of venomous beasts, and dissolves congealed j liniment. 



blood in the body. Gum Lacca being well purified, and the 



Ambergreese is hot and dry in the second ; quantity of half a dram taken in any con 

 degree, I will not dispute whether it be a \ venient liquor, strengthens the stomach ana 

 Gum or not: It strengthens nature much liver, opens obstructions, helps the yellow 

 which way soever it be taken, there are but! jaundice and dropsy; provokes urine, 

 few grains usually given of it at a time: breaks the stone in the reins and bladder, 

 mixed with a little ointment of Orange j Liquid Amber is not much unlike liquid 

 flowers, and the temples and forehead ! Styrax: by unction it warms and comforts 

 anointed with it, it eases the pains of iheja cold and moist brain, it eases all griefs 

 head and strengthens the brain exceedingly ; j coming of a cold cause, it mightily comforts 

 the same applied to the privities helps the j and strengthens a weak stomach, being 

 fits of the mother; inwardly taken it | anointed with it, and helps digestion ex- 

 strengthens the brain and memory, thej ceedingly, it dissolves swellings. It is hoi 

 heart and vital spirit, Wtu ms cold stomachs, I in the third degree, and moist in the first, 

 and is an exceeding strengthener of nature j I think it would do the commonwealth 

 to old people, adding vigour to decayed and \ no narm if I should speak a word or two of 

 worn-out spirits : it provokes venery, and ! Manna here, although it be no Gum : I con- 

 makes barren women fruitful, if coldness j fess authors make some flutter about it, 

 and moisture or weakness be the cause im-i what it is, some holding it to be the juice 

 pediting. of a tree ; I am confident it is the very same 



Assafwtido, being smelled to, is vulgarly 



a little bit put into an aching tooth, pre- 



very 

 condensatcd that our honey-dews here are, 



known to repress the fits of the mother ; i only the contries whence it comes being far 



hotter, it falls in great abundance. Let him 



scntly eases the pain, ten grains of it taken | that desires reason for it, be pleased to read 

 before dinner, walking half an hour after \ Butlers book of Bees, a most excellent 

 it, provokes appetite, helps digestion, i experimental work, there he shall find rca- 

 strcngthens the stomach, and takes away j son enough to satisfy any reasonable man. 

 loathing of meat, it provokes lust exceed- 1 Choose the driest and Avhitest; it is a very 

 ingly and expels wind as much. \ gentle purger of choler, quenches thirst, 



Borax, besides the virtues it has to solder \ provokes appetite, eases the roughness ot 

 Gold, Silver, Copper, &c. inwardly given \ the throat, helps bitterness in the throat, 

 in small quantities, it stops fluxes, and the: and often proneness to vomit, it is very good 

 running of the reins : being in fine powder, ! for such as are subject to be costive to put 

 and put into green wounds, it cures them at I it into their drink instead of sugar, it hath 

 once dressing. } no obnoxious quality at all in it, but may 



Gambitge, which the College calls Gutta \ be taken by a pregnant woman without any 

 Gamba. I know no good of it. | danger; a child of a year old may take an 



Caranna outwardly applied, i? excellent ; ounce of it at a time dissolved in milk, it 

 for aches and swellings in the nerves and I will melt like sugar, neither will it be known 

 ioints : If you lay it behind the ears, it j from it by the taste. 



draws back humours from the eyes ; applied Myrrh is hot and dry in the second degree , 

 to the temples as.they usually do Mastich, it 1 dangerous for pregnant women, it is bitter , 

 helps the tooth-ache. jand yet held to be good for the roughness 



Gum Elimi, authors appropriate to frac- ' of the throat and wind-pipe : half a drama 



