lie THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



tual against scaldings and burnings, St. drink, to those that are wounded, and read 



Anthony's fire, and all other hot, red, and 

 painful swellings in any part of the body. 



to faint through loss of blood, and applied 

 the same, mixed with honey and rosin, to 



The flowers boiled in oil or water (as every j the wounds. As also, the roots boiled in 

 one is disposed) whereunto a little honey \ wine to those that have received any hurt 

 and allum is put, is an excellent gargle to j by bruises, falls, or blows, or had any bone 

 \vash, cleanse or heal any sore mouth on or member out of joint, or any swelling- 

 throat in a short space. If the feet be! pain, .or ache in the muscles, sinews or 

 bathed or washed with the decoction of the ! arteries. The muscilage of the roots, and of 

 leaves, roots, and flowers, it helps much! Linseed and Fenugreek put together, is much 

 the defluxions of rheum from the head ; ! used in poultices, ointments, and plaisters, 

 if the head be washed therewith, it stays j to molify and digest all hard swellings, and 

 the falling and shedding of the hair. The j the inflammation of them, and to ease pains 

 green leaves (saith Pliny) beaten with ^ in any part of the body. The seed either 

 nitre, and applied, draw out thorns or \ green or dry, mixed with vinegar, cleanses 

 prickles in the flesh, j the skin of morphew, and all other dis- 



The Marshmallows are more effectual in ! colour' being boiled therewith in the 

 all the diseases before mentioned : The 

 leaves are likewise used to loosen the belly 

 gently, and in decoctions or clysters to ease 



Sun. 



You may remember that not long since 

 there was a raging disease called the bloody- 



all pains of the body, opening the strait! flux; the college of physicians not knowing 

 passages, and making them slippe'ry, where- 1 what to make of it, called it the inside 

 by the stone may descend the more easily \ plague, for their wits were at Ne plus ultra 



and without pain, out of the reins, kidneys, 

 and bladder, and to ease the torturing pains 



about it : My son was taken with the same 

 disease, and the excoriation of his bowels 



thereof. But the roots are of more special i was exceeding great; myself being in the 

 use for those purposes, as well for coughs, ] country, was sent for up, the only thing 

 hoarseness, shortness of breath and wheez- j 1 gave him, was Mallows bruised and 

 ings, being boiled in wine, or honeyed ! boiled both in milk and drink, in two days 

 water, and drank. The roots and seeds i (the blessing of God being upon it) it cured 

 hereof boiled in wine or water, are with | him. And I here, to shjew my thankful- 

 good success used by them that have ex- 1 ness to God, in communicating it to his 

 coriations in the bowels, or the bloody flux, f creatures, leave it to posterity 

 by qualifying the violence of sharp fretting i 



,, , i ] .1 & MAPI.E TREE. 



humours, easing the pains, and healing thej 



soreness. It is profitably taken by them j Government and virtues^] IT is under the 

 that are troubled with ruptures, cramps, or; dominion of Jupiter. The decoction either 

 convulsions of the sinews ; and boiled in j of the leaves or bark, must needs strengthen 

 white wine, for the imposthumes by the $ the liver much, and so you shall find it to 

 throat, commonly called the king's evil, and \ do, if you use it. It is excellently good to 

 of those kernels that rise behind the ears, } open obstructions both of the liver and 

 and inflammations or swellings in women's j spleen, and eases pains of the sides thence 

 breasts. The dried roots boiled in milk j proceeding. * 

 and drank, is especially good for the chin- 1 



\V^ T 1ST "O AT AT? T O I? A 1W 



cough. Hippocrates used to give the de-' 



'x>ction of the roots, or the juice thereof, to* CALLED also Origanum, Eastward Mar- 



