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edges, standing one above another up to j black, rough seed, which will stick to any 

 the tops. The flowers are many and white, | cloth or garment that shall touch it. The 

 standing in tufts like those of Yarrow, with; root is somewhat long, with small fibres 

 a small yellowish thrum in the middle. } thereat, of a dark reddish colour, which 

 The seed is very small. j abides the Winter, although the stalks and 



Place.'] The last grows in fields by the j leaves perish and spring every year, 

 hedge sides and paths, almost every where. | Place.~\ It grows wild generally through 



Time.'] It flowers at the latter end of j the land, about the borders of fields, and by 

 June and July. I the sides of walls, and among rubbish. It 



Government and virtues.'] It is under the i will endure well being brought up in gar- 

 government of Mercury, and I am per- j dens, and planted on the shady side, 

 suaded it is one of the best purgers of the j where it will spring of it own sowing. 

 brain that grows. An ounce of the juice! Time.'] It flowers in June and July, and 

 taken in a draught of Muskadel an hour \ the seed is ripe soon after, 

 before the fit of the ague comes, it will : Government and virtues] It is under the 

 assuredly drive away the ague at the second: dominion of Mercury. The dried herb 

 or third time taken at the farthest. Either? Pellitory made up into an electuary with 

 the herb or root dried and cl.cwed in the; honey, or the juices of the herb, or the de- 

 mouth, purges the brain of plegma'ie \ coction thereof made up with sugar or 

 humours; thereby not only easing pains in jhoii3y, is a singular remedy for an old or 

 the head and teeth, but also hinders the: dry cough, the shortness of breath, and 

 distilling of the brain upon the lungs and | wheezing in the throat. Three ounces of 

 eyes, thereby preventing coughs, phthisicks i the juice thereof taken at a time, doth won- 

 and consumption, the apoplexy and falling! derfully help stopping of the urine, and to 

 sickness. It is an excellently approved j expel the stone or gravel in the kidneys or 

 remedjr in the lethargy. The powder of the I bladder, and is therefore usually put among 

 herb or root being snuffed up the nostrils, J other herbs used in clysters to mitigate 

 procures sneezing, and. eases the head-ache; j pains in the back, sides, or bowels, pro- 

 being made into an ointment with hog's : ceeding of wind, stopping of urine, the 

 grease, it takes away black and blue spots i gravel or stone, as aforesaid. If the bruised 

 occasioned by blows or falls, and helps both j herb, sprinkled with some Muskadel, be 

 the gout and sciatica. j warmed upon a tile, or in a dish upon a 



few quick coals in a chafing-dish, and ap- 



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1 plied to the belly, it works the same effect. 



Descript.'] IT rises with brownish, red, 1 The decoction of the herb being drank, 

 tender, weak, clear, and almost transparent \ eases pains of the mother, and brings down 

 stalks, about two feet high, upon which 5 women's courses : It also eases those griefs 

 grow at the joints two leaves somewhat \ that arise from obstructions of the liver, 

 broad and long, of a dark green colour, j spleen, and reins. The same decoction, 

 which afterwards turn brownish, smooth on i with a little honey added thereto, is good 

 the edges, but rough and hairy, as the \ to gargle a sore throat. The juice held a 

 talks are also. At the joints with the j while in the mouth, eases pains in the teeth, 

 leaves from the middle of the stalk upwards, \ The distilled water of the herb drank with 

 where it spreads into branches, stand many j some sugar, works the same effects, and 

 small, pale, purplish flowers in hairy, rough cleanses the skin from spots, freckles, pur 

 heads, or husks, after which come small, 5 pies, wheats, sun-burn, morphew, &c. The 



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