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dren love this herb, it is their best com- i and it is true enough, that it will stop the 

 panion, their husbands excepted. Also it: terms, if worn so, and the whites too, for 

 consumes the phlegmatic humours, the cold | ought I know. It stays also spitting or 

 and moist constitution of Winter most; vomiting of blood. The powder of the 

 usually affects the body of man with, and he r b taken in some of the distilled water, 

 that was the first reason of eating tansies in | helps the whites in women, but more es- 

 the Spring. The decoction of the common : pecially if a little coral and ivory in pow- 

 Tansy, or the juice drank in wine, is a sin- I der be put to it. It is also recommended 

 o-ular remedy for all the griefs that come 5 to help children that are bursten, and have 

 by stopping of the urine, helps the stran-:a rupture, being boiled in water and salt, 

 guary and those that have weak reins and f Being boiled in water and drank, it eases 

 kidneys. It is also very profitable to dis- \ the griping pains of the bowels, and is good 

 solve and expel wind in the stomach, belly, ! for the sciatica and joint-aches. The same 

 or bowels, to procure women's courses, and ; boiled in vinegar, with honey and allum, 

 expel windiness in the matrix, if it be bruis-jand gargled in the mouth, eases the pains 

 ed and often smclled unto, as also applied jof the tooth-ache, fastens loose teeth, helps 

 to the lower part of the belly. It is also the gums that are sore, and settles the 

 very profitable for such women as are given | palate of the mouth in its place, when it is 

 to miscarry. It is used also against the j fallen down. It cleanses and heals ulcers 

 stone in the reins, especially to men. The* in the mouth, or secret parts, and is very 

 herb fried with eggs (as it is the custom in > good for inward wounds, and to close the 

 the Spring-time) which is called a Tansy, ; lips of green wounds, and to heal old, moist, 

 helps to digest and carry downward those land corrupt running sores in the legs or 

 bad humours that trouble the stomach. \ elsewhere. Being bruised and applied to 

 The seed is very profitably given to chil- the soles of the feet and hand wrists, it 

 dren for the worms, and the juice in drink I wonderfully cools the hot fits of agues, be 

 is as effectual. Being boiled in oil, it is i they never so violent. The distilled water 

 good for the sinews shrunk by cramps, or ; cleanses the skin of all discolourings there- 

 pained with colds, if thereto applied. : in, as morphew, sun-burnings, &c. as also 



I pimples, freckles, and the like ; and 



WILD TANSY, OR SILVER WEED. j . , , ,, 



| dropped into the eyes, or cloths wet therein 



THIS is also so well known, that it needs land applied, takes away the heat and in- 

 no description. | flammations in them. 



PlaceJ] It grows in every place. 



Time.'] It flowers in June and July 



Government and miiuesJ] Now Dame: OF these are many kinds growing herein 

 Venus hath fitted women with two herbs of | England which are so well known, that 

 one name, the one to help conception, and \ they need no description : Their difference 

 the other to maintain beauty, and what} is easily known on the places where they 

 more can be expected of her? What now i grow, viz. 



; cmains for you, but to love your husbands, j Place."] Some grow in fields, some in 

 and not to be wanting to your poor neigh- \ meadows, and some among the corn ; others 

 hours ? Wild Tansy stays the lask, and all j on heaths, greens, and waste grounds in 

 the fluxes of blood in men and women,; many places. 



which some say it will do, if the green herb* Time.'] They flower in June and August 

 be worn in the shoes, so it be next the skin ; * and their seed is ripe quickly after. 



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