178 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



belly, and to ease the pains in the head, orjor June, and the seed is ripe and blown 



away in the beginning of September. 



Government and virtues.] A gallant Sa- 

 turnine herb it is. The root, leaves, young 

 branches,or bark boiled in wine, and drank, 



megrim, and the griping pains in the bowels. 

 It is profitable for those that are troubled 

 with the stone in the kidneys, both to ease 

 the pains by provoking urine, and also to 



expel gravel and the stone engendered | stays the bleeding of the haemorrhodical 

 therein, and hath been found very effectual! veins, the spitting of blood, the too abound- 

 to expel windiness, and other humours, | ing of women's courses, the jaundice, the 

 which cause the strangling of the mother. j cholic, and the biting of all venomous ser- 

 The seed hereof is very effectual to expel j pents, except the asp ; and outwardly ap- 

 the tooth ache, and the ashes of the burnt) plied, is very powerful against the hardness 

 herb to cleanse the gums, and make the | of the spleen, and the tooth-ache, pains in 

 teeth white. The herb bruised and ap- ! the ears, red and watering eyes. The de- 

 plied to the place grieved with the king's jcoction, with some honey put thereto, is 

 evil, helps it in nine or ten days effectually, j good to stay gangrenes and fretting ulcers, 

 Monardus saith, it is a counter poison > and to wash those that are subject to nits 

 against the biting of any venomous crea--and lice. Alpinus and Veslingius affirm, 

 ture, the herb also being outwardly applied; That the Egyptians do with good success 

 to the hurt place. The distilled water is j use the wood of it to cure the French dis- 

 often given with some sugar before the fit; ease, as others do with lignum vitae or. 

 of an ague, to lessen it, and take it away in jguiacum ; and give it also to those who 

 three or four times using. If the distilled j have the leprosy, scabs, ulcers, or the like, 

 faeces of the herb, having been bruised be- 1 Its ashes doth quickly heal blisters raised 

 fore the distillation, and not distilled dry, j by burnings or scaldings. It helps the 

 be set in warm dung for fourteen days, and j dropsy, arising from the hardness of the 

 afterwards be hung in a bag in a wine; spleen, and therefore to drink out of cups 

 cellar, the liquor that distills therefrom is j made of the wood is good for splenetic 

 singularly good to use in cramps, aches, > persons. It is also helpful for melancholy, 

 the gout and sciatica, and to heal itches, land the black jaundice that arise thereof, 

 scabs, and running ulcers, cankers, and all | 



foul sores whatsoever. The juice is also! GARDEN TANSY. 



good for all the said griefs, and likewise to? 



kill lice in children's heads. The green j GARDEN Tansy is so well known, that 

 herb bruised and applied to any green lit needs no description, 

 wounds, cures any fresh wound or cut! Time.'] It liowers in June and July, 

 whatsoever: and the juice put into old; Government and virtues.] Dame Venus was 

 sores, both cleanses and heals them. There | minded to pleasure women with child by this 

 is also made hereof a singularly good salve herb,fortheregrowsnotanherb,fitterfortheir 

 to help imposthumes, hard tumours, and i use than this is ; it is just as though it were 

 other swellings by blows and falls. j out out for the purpose. This herb bruised 



I and applied to the naval, stays miscarriages ; 



THE TAMARISK TREE. j I know no herb like it for that use : Boiled 



Jin ordinary beer, and the decoction drank, 



It Is so well known in the place where it i cloth the like ; and if her womb be not as 

 grows, that it needs no description. ! she would have it, this decoction will make 



Time.] It flowers about the end of May, jit so. Let those women that desire chil- 



