Ififi THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



not rough or pricking: The flowers arc} you all the year, if you love yourself and 

 white, growing at the top of the stalks one i your ease, and it is a hundred pounds to a 

 above another, which being past, follow I penny if you do not ; keep it dry, make 

 small round pods, wherein are contained j conserves and syrups of it for your use, and 

 round seed somewhat blackish. The root \ withal, take notice that the Summer kind 

 stringy and thready, perishes every year I is the best. They are both of them hot 

 after it hath given seed, and raises itself: and dry, especially the Summer kind, 

 again of its own sowing. The plant, or ; which is both sharp and quick in taste, 

 any part thereof, being bruised, smells of j expelling wind in the stomach and bowels, 

 garlic, but more pleasantly, and tastes I and is a present help for the rising of the 

 somewhat hot and sharp, almost like unto j mother procured by wind ; provokes urine 

 rocket. and women's courses, and is much corn- 



It grows under walls, and by I mended for women with child to take in- 



'wardly, and to smell often unto. It cures 

 tough phlegm in the chest and lungs, and 

 helps to expectorate it the more easily ; 

 quickens the dull spirits in the lethargy, the 

 juice thereof being snuffed up into the 

 nostrils. The juice dropped into the eyes, 

 clears a dull sight, if it proceed of thin rold 

 humours distilled from the brain. The 



hedge-sides, and path-ways in fields in 

 many places. 



Time.] It flowers in June, July, and 

 A u trust. 



Government and virtues^] It is an herb of 

 Mercury. This is eaten by many country 

 people as sauce to their salt fish, and helps 

 well to digest the crudities and other cor- 



rupt humours engendered thereby. It juiceheated with theoilofRoses, and dropped 

 warms also the stomach, and causes diges- j into the cars, eases them of the noise and 

 tion. The juice thereof boiled with honey \ singing in them, and" of deafness also. 

 is accounted to be as good as hedge mus- \ Outwardly applied with wheat flour, in 

 tard for the cough, to cut and expectorate \ manner of a poultice, it gives ease to the 

 the tough phlegm. The seed bruised and < : sciatica and palsied members, heating and 



boiled in wine, is a singularly good remedy 



wanning them, and takes away their pains. 



for the wind colic, or the stone, being drank I It also takes away the pain that comes by 

 warm : It is also given to women troubled i stinging of bees, wasps, &c. 

 with the mother, both to drink, and the! SAVINE 



seed put into a cloth, and applied while itl 



is warm, is of singularly good use. Thej To describe a plant so well known is need- 

 leaves also, or the seed boiled, is good to be 5 less, it being nursed up almost in every gar- 

 iied in clysters to ease the pains of the j den, and abides green all the Winter. 

 .stone. The green leaves are held to be j Government and virtues^] It is under the 

 good to heal the ulcers in the legs. I dominion of Mars, being hot and dry in 



1 the third degree, and being of exceeding 



WINTER AND SUMMER SAVOURY. Qf & yery 



BOTH these are so well known (being \ If you dry the herb into powder, and mix 

 entertained as constant inhabitants in our jit with honey, it is an excellent remedy to 

 gardens) that they need no description. \ cleanse old filthy ulcers and fistulas ; but 



Government and virtues.~\ Mercury claims \ it hinders them from healing. The same is 

 dominion over this herb, neither is there j excellently good to break carbuncles and 

 H better remedy against the colic and iliac \ plague-sores ; also helps the king's evil, 

 I assion, than this herb; keep it dry by J being applied to the place. Being spread 



