100 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



almost, to gro\v in woods upon the trees, f and nose, and curing the ulcers and stench 

 and upon the stone walls of churches, j therein ; the same dropped into the ears 

 houses, &c. and sometimes to grow alone of} helps the old and running sores of them 

 itself, though but seldom, j those that are troubled with the spleen, 



Time.'] It flowers not until July, and j shall find much ease by continual drinking 

 the berries are not ripe till Christmas, when | out of a cup made of Ivy, so as the drink 

 they have felt Winter frosts. \ may stand some small time therein before 



Government and virtues.'] It is under the lit be drank. Cato saith, That wine put 

 dominion of Saturn. A pugil of the flowers, j into such a cup, will soak through it, by 

 which may be about a dram, (saith Diosco- { reason of the antipathy that is between 

 corides) drank twice a day in red wine, | them. 



helps the lask, and bloody flux. It is an 1 There seems to be a very great antipathy 

 enemy to the nerves and sinews, being \ between wine and Ivy ; for if one hath got 

 much taken inwardly, but very helpful j a surfeit by drinking of wine, his speediest 

 to them, being outwardly applied. Pliny i cure is to drink a draught of the same wine 

 saith, the yellow berries are good against j wherein a handful of Ivy leaves, being first 

 the jaundice ; and taken before one be set \ bruised, have been boiled, 

 to drink hard, preserves from drunkenness, * 

 and helps those that spit blood; and thatj 



the white berries being taken inwardly, ors FOR to give a description of a bush so> 

 applied outwardly, kills the worms in the; commonly known is needless, 

 belly. The 'berries are a singular remedy j Placet] They grow plentifully in divers 

 to prevent the plague, as also to free them j woods in Kent, Warney common near 

 from it that have got it, by drinking the i Brentwood in Essex, upon Finchley Corn- 

 berries thereof made in to a powder, for twojmon without Highgate; hard by the New- 

 er three days together. They being taken j found Wells near Dulwich, upon a Common 

 in wine, do certainly help to break the I between Mitcham and Croydon, in the 

 stone, provoke urine, and women's courses. ! Highgate near Amersham in Buckingham. 

 The fresh leaves of Ivy, boiled in vinegar, [.shire, and many other places, 

 and applied warm to the sides of those that i Time.'] The berries are not ripe the first 

 are troubled with the spleen, ache, or stitch i year, but continue green two Summers and 

 in the sides, do give much ease : The same | one Winter before they are ripe ; at which 

 applied with some Rosewater, and oil of j time they are all of a black colour, and 

 Roses, to the temples and forehead, eases | therefore you shall always find upon the 

 the head-ache, though it be of long con- \ bush green berries ; the berries are ripe 

 tinuance. The fresh leaves boiled in wine, j about the fall of the leaf, 

 and old filthy ulcers hard to be cured j Government and mrtues.~] This admirable 

 washed therewith, do wonderfully help to | solar shrub is scarce to be paralleled for its 

 cleanse them. It also quickly hoals green j virtues. The berries are hot in the thirl 

 wounds, and is effectual to heal all burnings | degree, and dry but in the first, being si 

 and scaldings, and all kinds of exulcera-' most admirable counter-poison, and as great 

 tions coming thereby, or by salt phlegm or \ a rcsister of the pestilence, as any growing ; 

 humours in other parts of the body. The j they are excellent good against the biting, 

 juice of the berries or leaves snuffed up into; of venomous beasts, they provoke urine 

 the nose, piirges the head and brain of thin j exceedingly, and therefore are very avail- 

 rheum that makes defluxions into the eyes ; able to dysuries and stranguaries. It is so 



