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sharp humours. The same is also effectual i of joint and newly set, and full of pain, do 

 for the piles or haemorrhoids, if they be! give much case; the seed and juice of the 

 washed or bathed therewith, or with the! leaves also being rubbed with a little salt 

 distilled water of the herb and roots. It is j upon warts and wens, and other kernels in 

 found also helpful to dry up any sharp | the face, eye-lids, or any other part of the 

 rheum that distills from the head into thef body, will, by often using, take them away, 

 eyes, causing redness, pain, waterings, itch- j 



ing, or the like, if a little prepared tutia, or j MEADOW TREFOIL, OR HONEYSUCKLES. 

 white amber, be used with the distilled j 



water thereof. And here is enough, only j It is so well known, especially by the 

 remember the Sun challengeth this herb. 5 name of Honeysuckles, white and red, that 



i I need not describe them. 



Place.-] They grow almost every where 



Descript.'] THE greater Turnsole rises 

 with one upright stalk, about a foot high, or 

 more, dividing itself almost from the bottom, 

 into divers small branches, of a hoary colour; 



in this land. 



Government and virtues.] Mercury hath 

 dominion over the common sort. Docio- 

 neus saith, The leaves and flowers are good 



at each joint of the stalk and branches grow j to ease the griping pains of the gout, the 

 small broad leaves, somewhat white and \ herb being boiled and used in a clyster, 

 hairy. At the tops of the stalks and branches ! If the herb be made into a poultice, and 

 stand small white flowers, consist/rig of four, i applied to inflammations, it will ease them, 

 and sometimes five small leaves, set in; The juice dropped in the eyes, is a familiar 

 order one above another, up< n a small ; medicine, with many country people, to 

 crooked spike, which turns inw n's like a j take away the pin and web (as they call it) 

 bowed finger, opening by degrees as the; in the eyes; it also allays the heat and 

 flowers blow open; after which in their; blood shooting of them. Country people 

 place come forth cornered seed, four for the j do also in many places drink the juice 

 most part standing together; the root is j thereof against the biting of an adder ; and 

 small and thready, perishing every year, 1 having boiled the berb in water, they first 

 and the seed shedding every year, raises it > wash the place with the decoction, and then 

 again the next spring. j lay some of the herb also to the hurt place. 



Place.'] It grows in gardens, and flowers j The herb also boiled in swine's grease, and 

 and seeds with us, notwithstanding it is not ; so made into an ointment, is good to apply 

 natural to this land, but to Ital y, Spain, and ; to the biting of any venomous creature. 

 France, where it grows plentifully. \ The herb also bruised and heated between 



Government and virtues] It is an herb of \ tiles, and applied hot to the share, causes 

 the Sun, and good one too. Dios-coridcs; them to make water who had it stopt be- 

 saith, That a good handful of this, which is ; fore. It is held likewise to be good for 

 called the Great Turnsole, boiled in water, I wounds, and to take away seed. The de- 

 aiul drank, purges both choler and phlegm ; i coction of the herb and flowers, with th 

 and boiled with cummin, helps the stone in j seed and root, taken for sometime, helps 

 the reins, kidneys, or bladder, provokes \ women that are troubled with the whites 

 urine and women's courses, and causes an \ The seed and flowers boiled in water, and 

 easy and speedy delivery in child-birth. \ afterwards made into a poultice with some 

 The leaves bruised and applied to places foil, and applied, helps hard swellings and 

 pained with the gout, or that have been out limposthumes. 



