8 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



and made into a poultice, applied to the ! and a gallant remedy for the inflammation 



breasts of women that are swollen with pain ! of the lungs and breasts, pleurisy, scabs, 



and heal, as also the privy parts of man or I itch, &c. It is under the celestial sign 



woman, the seat or fundament, or the ar-| Cancer. 



teries, joints, and sinews, when they are i 



inflamed and swollen, doth much ease them; j ARTICHOKES. 



and used with some salt, helps to dissolve I , 



knots or kernels in any part of the body.! J HE Latin , s cal1 them Ci era, only our 



The juice of the herb, or as (Dioscorides j co " e e calls them Artichocus. 



saith) the leaves and flowers, with some fine { Gwermaent and virtues.'] They are under 



Frankincense in powder, used in wounds ofi the domuuon of Venus, and therefore it is 



the body, nerves or sinews, doth singulaily | no marvel the J provoke lust, as indeed 



help to heal them. The distilled water of ! the / do, being somewhat windy meat; 



the herb performs well all the aforesaid I and ? el the J sta y the involuntary course of 



cures, but especially for inflammations or J natural seed m man, which is commonly 



the eyes, by reason of the de- ! called nocturnal pollutions. And here I 

 eum unto them. \ care not g rea "J ^ I quote a little of Galen's 



watering of 



fluxion of rheum unto them. I care n l g rea HJ ir 1 H uote a lltlle 0| ^ a 'en's 



, nonsense in his treatise of the faculties of 



HEART S-EASE. 



nourishment. He saith, they contain plenty 



i : i . i / i i i . * 



as 



without danger or Having tneir tongues i ,-.- . 



burned through with an hot iron, called an 1 melancholy juice thin choleric blood. But, 

 herb of the Trinity. It is also called by ! to P>w*lr! this is certain, that the clecoo- 

 those that are more moderate, Three Faces!? 011 of the root boiled in wine, or the root 

 in a Hood, Live in Idleness, Cull me to bruised and distilled in wine in an alembic, 

 you; and in Sussex we call them Fancies. and Dein S drank ' P ur es b ? unne ex ceed- 



P/ace.] Besides those which are brought j in S l y- 



up in gardens, they grow commonly wild! HART'S-TONGUE. 



in the fields, especially in such as are very j 



barren: sometimes you may find it on the j Descript.'] THIS has divers leaves arising 

 tops of the high hills. | from the root, everyone severally, which 



Time.'] They flower all the Spring and 

 Summer long. 



Government and virtues.] The herb is 



fold themselves in their first springing and 

 spreading : when they are full grown, are 

 about a foot long, smooth and green above, 



eally saturnine, something cold, viscous, j but hard and with little sap in them, and 

 and slimy A strong decoction of the herbs 1 streaked on the back, athwart on both sides 

 and flowers (if you will, you may make itjof the middle rib, with small and some- 

 intosyrup) is an excellentcure for the French i what long and brownish marks; the bot- 

 pox, the herb being a gallant antivenereal : | toms of the leaves are a little bowed on 

 and what antivenereals are the best cure for i each side of the middle rib, somewhat 

 that disease, far better and safer than to! small at the end. The root is of many 

 .orment them with the flux, divers foreign! black threads, folded or interlaced together 

 physicians have confessed. The spirit of; Time.'] It is girrn all the Winter; but 

 't is excellently good for the convulsions in I new leaves spring every year, 

 thildren, as also for the falling sickness,! Government and virtues."] Jupiter claims 



