140 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



the head; and Galen sailh also, they have! along among the leaves; after which come 

 si drying faculty, whereby they are good to : small and round husks. The root is small 

 solder the lips of wounds, and to cleanse: and woody, perishing every year, 

 foul ulcers. The distilled water or juice is! Place.'] It grows more plentifully in 

 much esteemed by French dames to cleanse | Kent than any other county of this land, as 

 ihe skin from any roughness and defor- ; namely, in many places on this side Dart- 

 mity, or discolouring thereof ; being boiled j ford, along to Southfleet, Chatham, and 

 in wine and given to drink, it is a good j Rochester, and upon Chatham down, hard 

 remedy against the plague, and othei pes- { by the Beacon, and half a mile from 

 tilential fevers, if the party after taking it * Rochester, in a field near a house called 

 be warm in his bed, and sweat for two j Selesys. 



hours after, and use the same for twice at! Time.'] It flowers and gives seed in the 

 least. It helps also all stingings and 'Summer months. 



bitings of venomous beasts, or mad dogs, j Government and virtues.'] Mars owns the 

 being' used inwardly, and applied outward-: herb. The decoction of Ground Pine 

 ly. The same also opens obstructions of {drank, doth wonderfully prevail against the 

 the liver, and is very available against the j stranguary, or any inward pains arising 

 infirmities of the reins : It provokes urine, j from the diseases of the reins and urine, 

 and helps to expel the stone and gravel land is especially good for all obstructions of 

 out of the kidneys and bladder, and helps | the liver and spleen, and gently opens 

 much in all inward pains and ulcers. The: ihe body; for which purpose they were 

 decoction, or distilled water, is no less ef- i wont in former times to make pills with the 

 fecf.ual to be applied to all wounds that are j powder thereof, and the pulp of figs. It 

 fresh and green, or old, filthy, fretting, and \ marvellously helps ail the diseases of the 

 running ulcers, which it very effectually j mother, inwardly or outwardly applied, 

 cures in a short space. A little mixed : procuring women's courses, and expelling 

 with the juice, and dropped into the eyes, > the dead child and after-birth ; yea, it is so 

 cleanses them from cloudy mists, or thick \ powerful upon those feminine parts, that it 

 films which grow over them, and hinder > is utterly forbidden for women with child, 

 the sight. It helps the tooth-ache, being; for it will cause abortion or delivery before 

 dropped into the ear on a contrary side of j the time. The decoction of the herb in 

 the pain. It is also effectual to case the' wine taken inwardly, or applied outwardly, 

 pains of the haemorrhoids or piles. lor both, for some time together, Js also 



j effectual in all pains and diseases of tin- 

 GROUND PINE. OR ciiAMEPiTYs. | jointS) as gouts , ^mps, palsies, S ciatica,and 



Deseript.] Otni common Ground Pine 1 aches; for which purpose the pills made 

 grows low, seldom rising above a hand's i with powder of Ground Pine, and of Her- 

 breadlh high, shooting forth divers small unodactyls with Venice Turpentine are very 

 branches, set with slender, small, long, nar-l effectual. The pills also, continued for 

 row, greyish, or whitish leaves, somewhat \ some time, are special good for those that 

 hairy, and divided into three parts, many | have the dropsy, jaundice, and for griping 

 bushing together at a joint, some growing > pains of the joints, belly, or inward parts 



from ihe joint of the stalk all* ness. It is a special remedy for the DOISOD 



