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it up into troches, of which they may take j The seed bruised mixed with honey, and 

 one of about half a dram weight an hour or j applied, or made up with wax, fakes away 

 two before meals ; let old men and women \ the marks and black and blue spots of 

 make much of this medicine, and they will j bruises, or the like, the roughness or scab- 

 either give me thanks, or shew manifest ! biness of the skin, as also the leprosy, and 

 rnoratitude. Mustard seed hath the virtue \ lousy evil. It helps also the crick in the 

 ofheat, discussing, ratifying, and drawing { neck. The distilled water of the herb, when 

 out splinters of bones, and other things of lit is in the flower, is much used to drink 

 the flesh. It is of good effect to bring | inwardly to help in any of the diseases 

 Jown women's courses, for the falling-sick- j aforesaid, or to wash the mouth when the 

 ness or lelhargy, drowsy forgetful evil, to j palate is down, and for the disease of the 

 use it both inwardly and outwardly, to rub j throat to gargle, but outwardly also for 

 the nostrils, forehead and temples, to warm 5 scabs, itch, or other the like infirmities, and 

 and quicken the spirits; for by the fierce j cleanses the face from morphew, spots, 

 sharpness it purges the brain by sneezing, j freckles, and other deformities, 

 and drawing down rheum and other vis-j 



cous humours, which by their distillations j THE HEDGE-MUSTARD. 



upon the lungs and chest, procure coughing, j 



and therefore, with some, honey added | Descript.~] THIS grows up usually but 

 thereto, doth much good therein. The de-i with one blackish green stalk, tough, easy 

 coction of the seed made in wine, and | to bend, but not to break, branched into 

 drank, provokes urine, resists the force of i divers parts, and sometimes with divers 

 poison, the malignity of mushrooms, and | stalks, set full of branches, Avhereon grow 

 venom of scorpions, or other venomous j long, rough, or hard rugged leaves, very 

 creatures, if it be taken in time ; and taken ! much tore or cut on the edges in many 

 before the cold fits of agues, alters, lessens, ! parts, some bigger, and some less, of a 

 and cures them. The seed taken either by -'dirty green colour. The flowers are small 

 itself, or with other things, either in an dec- j and yellow, that grow on the tops of the 

 tuary or drink, doth mightily stir up bodily j branches in long spikes, flowering by de- 

 lust, and helps the spleen and pains in theigrees ; so that continuing long in flower, 

 sides, and gnawings in the bowels; and \ the stalk will have small round cods at the 

 used as a gargle draws up the palate of the ; bottom, growing upright and close to the 

 mouth, being fallen down ; and also it dis- 1 stalk, while the top flowers yet shew them- 

 solves the swellings about the throat, if it -selves, in which are contained small yellow 

 be outwardly applied. Being chewed in! seed, sharp and strong, as the herb is also, 

 the mouth it oftentimes helps the tooth-ache. |The root grows down slender and woody, 

 The outward application hereof upon the j yet abiding and springing again every 

 pained place of the sciatica, discusses the j year. 



humours, and eases the pains, as also the? Place.'] This grows frequently in this 

 gout, and other joint aches ; and is much i land, by 'the ways and hedge-sides, and 

 and often used to ease pains in the sides or \ sometimes in the open fields, 

 loins, the shoulder, or other parts of thej TimeJ] It flowers most usually about 

 ooily, upon the plying thereof to raise j July. 



Mistc-rs, and cures the disease by drawing: Government and virtues."] Mars owns this 

 it to the outward parts of the body. It is \ herb also. It is singularly good in all the 

 also used to help the falling off the hair J diseases of the chest and lungs, hoarseness 



