124 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



round heads, wherein is small brownish | and heal them also. The leaves bruised 

 seed contained. The root is long, white, i and wrapped in double papers, and covered 

 and woody, perishing after it hath borne ! with hot ashes and embers to bake a while, 

 seed. | and then taken forth and, laid warm on any 



Place."] It grows by way-sides and lanes, | blotch or boil happening in the groin 01 

 in many places of this land. j share, doth dissolve and heal them. The 



Time.'] It flowers in July or thereabouts. ' seed bruised and boiled in wine, and laid 

 Government and virtues.'} It is under the i on any member that has been out of joint, 

 dominion of Saturn. A small quantity of land newly set again, takes away all swel- 

 the root given in wine, is commended by ; ling and pain thereof. 

 Dioscoricles, against lasks and fluxes of the * 

 belly. The decoction hereof drank, is pro- ] 



Stable for those that are bursten, and forj Descript.] OUR common Mustard hath 

 cramps and convulsions, and for those that! large and broad rough leaves, verv much 

 are troubled with an old cough. The de- * jagged with uneven and unorder! y gashes, 

 coction thereof gargled, eases the pains of j somewhat like turnip leaves, but less and 

 the tooth-ache. And the oil made by the $ rougher. The stalk rises to be more than 

 often infusion of the flowers, is of very good |a foot high, and sometimes two feet high, 

 effect for the piles. The decoction of the } being round, rough, and branched at the 

 root in red wine or in water, (if there be \ top, bearing such like leaves thereon as 

 an ague) wherein red hot steel hath been j grow helow, but lesser, and less divided, 

 often quenched, doth stay the bloody-flux. and divers yellow flowers one above another 

 The same also opens obstructions of the > at the tops, after which come small rough 

 bladder and reins. A decoction of the I pods, with small, lank, flat ends, wherein 

 leaves hereof, and of Sage, Marjoram, and i is contained round yellowish seed, sharp, 

 Camomile flowers, and the places bathed \ hot, and biting upon the tongue. The root 

 therewith, that have sinews stiff with cold; is small, long, and woody when it bears 

 or champs, doth bring them much ease and | stalks, and perishes every year, 

 comfort. Three ounces of the distilled i PlaceJ] This grows with us in gardens 

 water of the flowers drank morning and : only, and other manured places, 

 evening for some days together, is said to be I Time.'\ It is an annual plant, flowering 

 the most excellent remedy for the gout. : in July, and the seed is ripe in August. 

 The juice of the leaves and flowers being j Government and virtues.] It is an excel- 

 laid upon rough warts, as also the powder * lent sauce for such whose blood wants clari- 

 of the dried roots rubbed on, doth easily \ tying, and for weak stomachs, being an 

 take them away, but doth no good to herb of Mars, but naught for choleric 

 smooth warts. The powder of the dried J people, though as good for such as are 

 flowers is an especial remedy for those that j aged, or troubled with cold diseases. Ark* 

 are troubled with the belly-ache, or the; claims something to do with it, therefore it 

 pains of the cholic. The decoction of the \ strengthens the heart, and resists poison 

 root, and so likewise of the leaves, is of; Let such whose stomachs are so weak they 

 great effect to dissolve the tumours, swel-i cannot digest their meat, or appetite it, take- 

 lings, or inflammations of the throat. The j of Mustard-seed a dram, Cinnamon as much, 

 seed and leaves boiled in wine, and ap-jand having beaten them to powder, and 

 plied, draw forth speedily thorns or splin-lhalf as much Mastich in powder, and with 

 ters gotten into the tlesh, ease the pains, i gum Arabic dissolved in rose-water, mak 



