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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



>od for all inward heats as well as out- 

 ward, and in the eyes or other parts of the 

 body ; a posset made with the juice of 

 Houseleek, is singularly good in all hot 

 agues, for it cools and tempers the blood 

 and spirits, and quenches the thirst; and 



which consist of small purplish red leaves 

 of a dead colour, rising out of the husks 

 wherein they stand with some threads in 

 the middle. It has sometimes a white 

 flower. After the flowers are past, there 

 comes rough flat seed, with a small pointlc 



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also good to slay all hot deductions or sharp in the middle, easily cleaving to any gar- 

 and salt rheums in the eyes, the juice being | ment that it touches, and not so easiH 

 dropped into them, or into the ears. | pulled off again. The root is black, thick, 

 It helps also other fluxes of humours in the i and long, hard to break, and full of clammy 

 bowels, and the immoderate, courses of juice, smelling somewhat strong, of an evil 



women. It cools and restrains all other hot 

 inflammations, St. Anthony's fire, scald- 



ings and burnings, the shingles, fretting; land, in waste grounds, and untillecl places, 



ulcers, cankers, tettors, ringworms, and the 

 like ; and much eases the pains of the gout 

 proceeding from any hot cause. The juice 



scent, as the leaves also do. 



Place.'] It grows in moist places of this 



by highway sides, lanes, and hedge-sides. 



Time.'] It flowers about May or June, 

 and the seed is ripe shortly after. 



also takes away worts and corns in the Government and virtues.'] It is a plant 

 hands or feet, being often bathed therewith, } under the dominion of Mercury. The root 



* is very effectually used in pills, as well as 

 the decoction, or otherwise, to slay all sharp 

 and thin defluxions of rheum from the head 

 into the eyes or nose, or upon ihe stomach 



and the skin and leaves being laid on them 

 afterwards. It eases also the head-ache, 

 and distempered heat of the brain in 

 frenzies, or through want of sleep, being 

 applied to the temples and forehead. The 

 leaves bruised and laid upon the crown or 

 seam of the head, stays bleeding at the nose 

 very quickly. The distilled water of the 

 herb is profitable for all the purposes afore- 

 said. The leaves being gently rubbed on 



or lungs, as also for coughs and shortness 

 of breath. The leaves boiled in wine (saith 

 Dioscorides, but others do rather appoint it 

 to be made with water, and add thereto 

 oil and salt) molifies or opens the belly 

 downwards. It also helps to cure the biting 



HOUND S TONGUE. 



any place stung with neltles or bees, dolh of a mad dog, some of the leaves being also 

 quickly lake away the pain. \ applied to the wound : The leaves bruised, 



or the juice of ihem boiled 111 ^ Js lard, 

 and applied, helps falling away of the hair, 

 which comes of hot and sharp humours ; 

 as also for any place that is scalded or 

 burnt ; the leaves bruised and laid to any 

 green wound doth heal it up quickly : the 

 root baked under the embers, wrapped in 

 paste or wet paper, or in a wet double cloth, 

 and thereof a suppository made, and put 

 up into or applied to the fundament, dolh 

 very effectually help the painful piles or 

 hemorrhoids. The distilled waler of the 

 | herbs and roots is very good to all the pur- 



f)escript.~] THE greal ordinary Hound's 

 Tongue has many long and somewhat 

 narrow, soft, hairy, darkish green leaves, 

 lying on the ground, somewhat like unto 

 Bugloss leaves, from among which rises 

 up a rough hairy stalk about two feet high, 

 with some smaller leaves thereon, and 

 branched at the tops into divers parts, with 

 a small leaf at the foot of every branch, 

 which is somewhat long, with many flowers 

 set along the same, which branch is crooked 



or turned inwards before it flowers, and \ poses aforesaid, to be used as well inwardly 

 opens by degrees as the flowers blow, | to drink, as outwardly to wash any sore 



