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point at it, wherein is contained seed as jit may be seen many months in the year 

 small as dust. j both green and in flower, and seed ; for it 



Placed] It grows seldom in fields, but j will spring and seed twice in a year at 

 frequent in the woods northwards, viz. in | least, if it be suffered in a garden. 

 Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Scotland. j Place.] They grow almost every where, 



Time.'] It flowers about June and July. 1 as well on tops of walls, as at the foo{ 

 Government and virtues.'] Winter-green | amongst rubbish and untilled grounds, bul 

 is under the dominion of Saturn, and is a -especially in gardens. 

 singularly good wound herb, and an espe- j Time.'] It flowers, as was said before, al- 

 cial remedy for healing green wounds j most every month throughout the year. 

 speedily, the green leaves being bruised and Government and virtues.'] This hero is 

 applied, or the juice of them. A salve ! Venus's mistress-piece, and is as gallant 

 made of the green herb stamped, or the j and universal a medicine for all diseases 

 juice boiled with hog's lard, or with salad | coming of heat, in what part of the body 

 oil and wax, and sonic turpentine added j soever they be, as the sun shines upon; it is 

 to it, is a sovereign salve, and highly ex- { very safe and friendly to the body of man : 

 tolled by the Germans, who use it to heal jyet causes vomiting if the stomach be af- 

 all manner of wounds and sores. The herb ; rlicted ; if not, purging : and it doth it with 

 boiled in wine and water, and given to I more gentleness than can be expected; it is 

 drink to them that have any inward ulcers j moist, and something cold withal, thereby 

 in their kidneys, or neck of the bladder, | causing expulsion, and repressing the heat 

 doth wonderfully help them. It stays all j caused by the motion of the internal parts 

 fluxes, as the lask, bloody fluxes, women's > in 4 purges and vomits. Lay by our learned 

 courses, and bleeding of wounds, and takes ; receipts ; take so much Sena, so much 

 away any inflammations rising upon pains 1 Scammony, so much Colocynthis, so much 

 of the heart; it is no less helpful for foul i infusion of Crocus Metallorum, c. this 

 ulcers hard to be cured; as also for cankers j herb alone preserved in a syrup, in a dis- 

 or fistulas. The distilled water of the herb tilled water, or in an ointment, shall do 

 effectually performs the same things. i the deed for you in all hot diseases, and, 



GROUNDSEL \ ^'^ d '*' *' ^^ ' ^ S P eediI .V' 



The decoction of this herb (saith Diosco- 



Descript.~\ OUR common Groundsel has rides) made with Avine, and drank, helps 

 a round green and somewhat brownish | the pains of the stomach, proceeding of 

 stalk, spreading toward the top into branches, jcholer, (which it may well do by a vomit) 

 set with long and somewhat nan ow green : as daily experience shews. The juice there- 

 leaves, cut in on the edges, somewhat like! of taken in dr.ink, or the decoction of it in 

 the oak-leaves, but less, and round at the } ale, gently performs the same. It is good 

 nul. At the tops of the branches stand j against the jaundice and falling sickness, 

 many small green heads, out of which grow ! being taken in wine; as also against dif- 

 K'veral small, yellow threads or thumbs, i ficulty of making water. It provokes 

 which are the flowers, and continue many i urine, expels gravel in the reins or kidneys; 

 days blown in that manner, before it pass* a dram thereof given in oxymel, after some 

 away into down, and with the seed is j walking or stirring of the body. It helps 

 carried away in the wind. The root is small j also the sciatica, griping of the belly, the 

 and thready, and soon perishes, and as ! cholic, defects of the liver, and provokes 

 toon rises again of its own sowing, so that 'women's courses. The fresh herb boiled 



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