101 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



helps them to make water that are stopped, j Descript.~] The root is composed of many 

 or are troubled with the wind or cholic, if {small while threads from whence spring up 

 he place be bathed therewith. A decoc-i divers long stalks of winged leaves, consist- 

 tion made with the flowers of Lavender, j ing of round, tender, dark, green leaves, 

 Hore-hound, Fennel and Asparagus root, j set one against another upon a middle rib, 

 and a little Cinnamon, is very profitably : the greatest being at the end, amongst 

 used to help the falling-sickness, and the \ which arise up divers tender, weak, round, 

 giddiness or turning of the brain: to gar- j green stalks, somewhat streaked, with lon- 

 gle the mouth with the decoction thereof i ger and smaller leaves upon them ; on the 

 is good against the tooth-ache. Two j tops of which stand flowers, almost like the 

 spoonfuls of the distilled water of the j Stock Gillifiowers, but rounder, and not so 

 flowers taken, helps them that have lost ; long, of a blushing white colour; the seed 

 their voice, as also the tremblings and pas- > is reddish, and grows to small branches, 

 sions of the heart, and fain tings and swoon- \ being of a sharp biting taste, and so has the 

 ing, not only being drank, but applied to ! herb. 



the temples, or nostrils to be smelled unlo ; 5 Placed] They grow in moist places, and 

 but it is not safe to use it where the body is j near to brooksides. 



replete with blood and humours, because of; Time.'] They flower in April and May, 

 the hot and subtile spirits wherewith it is \ and the lower leaves continue green all the 

 possessed. The chymical oil drawn from \ Winter. 



Lavender, usually called Oil of Spike, isofi Government and virtues.'] They are under 

 so fierce and piercing a quality, that it is ! the dominion of the Moon, and very little 

 cautiously to be used, some few drops being S inferior to Water Cresses in all their opera- 

 sufficient, to be given with other things, ; tions ; they are excellently good for tlte 

 either for inward or outward griefs. i scurvy, they provoke urine, and break the 



LAVENDER-COTTON. | stone, and excellently warm a cold and 



T i it 'weak stomach, restoring lost appetite, and 

 IT being a common .garden herb, 1 shall ; - , ,. . ' 



forbear the description, only tak^ notice, I 



that it flowers in June and July. LETTUCE. 



Government and virtues.] It is under the* T n i i 



, . . ,. T. r J r . . IT is so well known, being generally used 



dominion of Mercury. It resists po.son, Sal , ml . llcl ., , that u is fi^ther Deed, 



putrefaction, and heals the biting of veno- , ^ (lescription lhe * coi - 



mous beasts : A dram of the powder of the 5 . Go|W||JfJC|rf y and J^j The Moon 

 dried leaves taken every morning fasting , ^^ ^ anfj ^ fg the J reason t , CQo| 

 stops the running of the reins m men, and , ftnd mo . gten whftt ^ and dr nes / Mars 

 vhites in women. I he seed bea ten intoj fa because Maps hag hi ^ jn Cftn _ 



powder, and taken as womi -seed kills the ; .. the ., 



aid th .. oo , the he ., t 



worms, not only m children , but also in | Sun rmcs j j^^^ whom and the Mo(m 

 people of nper years ; the like doth the| jg ft tion in the generation of men, as 



erb itself, being steeped in milk and the * ^ Jn m ^ Guide for Woincn 



milk drank . ; the body bathed w.th the de- ^ . . of Lettuc c mixed or boiled with 

 coction of it, helps scabs and itch. j Qil Q J f Roscs> app]ie(I to the forchea(1 and 



LADIES-SMOCK, OR c uc KG w-FLo\vER. j temples procures sleep, and eases the head- 



Tins is a very pretty ornament to the! ache proceeding of an hot cause: Being 



sides of most meadows. $ eaten boiled, it helps to loostu the belly. 



