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eases the pains of them. Galen saith, it Time.] They spring up in April, an 

 opens obstructions both of the liver and > their blooming catkins in July, seeding fc. 



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spleen, and purges the breast and lungs of 

 phlegm : and used outwardly it both 

 cleanses and digests. A decoction of Hore- 

 houncl (saith Matthiolus) is available for 

 those that have hard livers, and far such as 

 have itches and running tetters. The pow- 



the most part in August, and then peri* 

 down to the ground, rising afresh in ti 

 Spring. 



Government and virtues.'] The herb be- 

 longs to Saturn, yet is very harmless, and 

 excellently good for the things following: 



der hereof taken, or the decoction, kills j; Horsetail, the smoother rather than the 

 worms. The green leaves bruised, and 'rough, and the leaves rather than the bare, 

 boiled in old hog's grease into an oint-jis most physical. It its very powerful tir 

 ment, heals the biting of dogs, abates the; staunch bleeding either inward or outward, 

 swellings and pains that come by any I the juice or the decoction thereof being 

 pricking of thorns, or such like means; and [drank, or the juice, decoction, or distilled 

 used with vinegar, cleanses and heals tetters. water applied outwardly. It also stays all 

 There is a syrup made of Horehound to be sorts of lasks and fluxes in man or woman- 



had at the apothecaries, very good for old 

 coughs, to rid the tough phlegm ; as also 



and bloody urine ; and heals also not only 

 the inward ulcers, and the excoriation 



to void cold rheums from the lungs of old ! the entrails, bladder, &c. but all other sorts 



folks, and for those that are asthmatic o-rj of foul, moist and running ulcers, and soon 



short-winded. \ solders together the tops of green wounds. 



_-,,.. lit cures all ruptures in children. The de- 



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\ coction thereof in wine being drank, pro- 



OF that there are many kinds, but I shall j vokcs urine, and helps the stone and stran- 

 not trouble you nor myself with any large j guary ; and the distilled water thereof drank 

 description of them, which to do, were {two or three times in a day, and a small 

 but, as the proverb is, To find a knot in a | quantity at a time, also eases the bowels, 

 rush, all the kinds thereof being nothing j ant } j s effectual against a cough that comes 

 else but knotted rushes, some with leaves, | by distillations from the head. The juice 

 and some without. Take the description of j or distilled water being wanned, and hot 

 the most eminent sort as follows. \ inflammations, pustules or red whcals, and 



The great Horsetail at the other breakings-out in the skin, bein 

 first Sflrfogilg has heads somewhat like | bathed therewith, doth help them, and doth 

 thoseof asparagus,and afterwards growtobej n o less 'he swelling heat and inflammation 

 hard, rough, hollow stalks, jointed at sundry : o f the lower parts in men and women. 

 places up to the top, a foot high, so made: 



as if the lower parts were put into thej HOUSBLEEK on SENCREEN 



upper, where grow on each side a bush of \ BOTH these are so well known to my 

 small long rush-like hard leaves, each part 5 countrymen, that I shall not need to write 

 resembling a horsetail, from whence it is so j any description of them. 

 called. At the tops of the stalks cornej Place.] It grows commonly upon walls: 

 forth small catkins, like those of trees. The and house-sides, and flowers in July, 

 Toot creeps under ground, having joints at | Government and virtues] It is an herb 

 sundry places. ? of Jupiter, and it is reported by Mezaldus, 



Place.] This (as most of the other sorts | to preserve what it grows upon from fare 

 iereofj grows in wet grounds. land lightning. Our ordinary Houseleek is 



