102 THE COMPLETE HEKBAL 



your eyes nor your taste shall distinguish j with wormwood is good for the bloody-flux, 

 inem from henuodactyls. } Pliny saith, it procures women's courses. 



: and stays them coming down too fast: helps 

 | the stinging and biting of serpents, and kills 



OUR ordinary .garden Sage needs no ? the worms that breed in the ear, and in 

 description. j sores. Sage is of excellent use to help the 



Time.'] It flowers in or about July. j memory, warming and quickening the 



Government and virtues.] Jupiter claims *. senses; and the conserve made of the flowers 

 this, and bids me tell you, it is good for the \ is used to the same purpose, and also for all 

 liver, and to breed blood. A decoction of j the former recited diseases. The juice of 

 the leaves and branches of Sage made and J Sage drank with vinegar, hath been of good 

 drank, saith Dioscorides, provokes urine, ; use in time of the plague at all times, 

 brings down women's courses, helps to ? Gargles likewise are made with Sage, rose- 

 expel the dead child, and causes the hair jmary, honey-s.uckles, and plantain, boiled 

 to become black. It stays the bleeding of j in wine or water, with some honey or allum 

 wounds, and cleanses foul ulcers. Three 1 put thereto, to wash sore mouths and 

 spoonfuls of the juice of Sage taken fasting, j throats, cankers, or the secret parts of man 

 with a little honey, doth presently stay the 5 or woman, as need requires. And with 

 spitting or casting of blood of them that are I other hot and comfortable herbs, Sage is 

 in a consumption. These pills are much i boiled to bathe the body and the legs in the 

 commended ; Take of spikenard, ginger, $ Summer time, especially to warm cold 

 of each two drams; of the seed of Sage ? joints, or sinews, troubled with the palsy 

 toasted at the fire, eight drains ; of long * and cramp, and to comfort and strengthen 

 pepper, twehedrams; all thesebeingbrought; the parts. It is much commended against 

 into powde T , put thereto so much juice of : the stitch, or pains in the side coming of 

 Sage as may make them into a mass of; wind, if the place be fomented warm with 

 pills, taking a dram of them every morning I the decoction thereof in wine, and the 

 fasting, and so likewise at night, drinking I herb also after boiling be laid warm there- 

 a little pure water after them. Matthiolus i unto, 

 saith, it is very profitable for all manner j 



of pains in the head coming of cold and j WOOD-SAGE. 



rheumatic humours: as aisoforall pains of j 



the joints, whether inwardly or outwardly, ; Descript.'] WOOD-SAGE rises up with 

 and therefore helps the falling-sickness, the i square hoary stalks, two feet high at th* 1 

 lethargy such as are dull and heavy of j least, with two leaves set at every joint, 

 spirit, the palsy ; and is of much use in all j somewhat like other Sage leaves, but 

 defluctions of rheum from the head, and for j smaller, softer, whiter, and rounder, and a 

 the diseases of the chest or breast. The j little dented about the edges, and smelling 

 leaves of Sage and nettles bruised together, | somewhat stronger. At the tops of the 

 and laid upon the imposthume that rises ! stalks and branches stand the flowers, on a 

 behind the ears, doth assuage it much. ; slender like spike, turning themselves all 

 The juice of Sage taken in warm water, | one way when they blow, and are of a pale 

 helps a hoarseness and a cough. The j and whitish colour, smaller than Sage, but 

 leaves sodden in wine, and laid upon the j hooded and gaping like unto them. The 

 place affected with the palsy, helps much, j seed is blackish and round ; four usually 

 if the decoction be drank : Also Sage taken i seem in a husk together : the root is long 



