190 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



or its chief strength, is excellent to be ap- j ings, comforts and strengthens any weak 

 plied either inwardly or outwardly, for all ? part, or out of joint; helps to cleanse the 

 the griefs aforesaid. There is a syrup made ; eyes from mistiness or films upon them, 



nereof very effectual for the comforting 

 the heart, and expelling sadness and melan- 

 choly. 



' ininl'^t HTiH <tinp\vs A pnnm^rvf* msirlp rtf-trm 

 WALL FLOWERS, OR WINTER GILLI-;-], - . 



I flowers, is used for a remedy both for the 



and to cleanse the filthy ulcers in the mouth, 

 or any other part, and is a singular remedy 

 for the gout, and all aches and pains in the 



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{apoplexy and palsy. 



THE garden kind are so well known that? 

 they need no description. 



Descript^] The common single Wall- IT is so well known, that it needs no des- 

 flowers, which grow wild abroad, have sun-jcription, 



dry small, long, narrow, dark .green leaves, j Time.'] It blossoms early before the 

 set without order upon small round, whitish,! leaves come forth, and the fruit is ripe in 

 woody stalks, which bear at the tops divers: September. 



single yellow flowers one above another, { Government and virtues.'] This is also a 

 every one bearing four leaves a-piece, and I plant of the Sun. Let the fruit of it be 

 of a very sweet scent : after which come j gathered accordingly, which you shall find 

 long pods, containing a reddish seed. The j to be of most virtues while they are green, 

 roots are white, hard and thready. j before they have shells. The bark of the 



Place.'] It grows upon church walls, and j Tree doth bind and dry very much, and the 

 old Avails of many houses, and other stone Heaves are much of the same temperature: 

 walls in divers places ; The other sort in j but the leaves when they are older, are heat- 

 gardens only. ling and drying in the second degree, and 



Time.] All the single kinds do flower > harder of digestion than when they are 

 many times in the end of Autumn ; and if; fresh, which, by reason of their sweetness, 

 the Winter be mild, all the Winter long, ! are more pleasing, and better digesting in 

 but especially in the months of February, j the stomach; and taken with sweet wine, 

 March, and April, and until the heat of the; they move the belly downwards, but being 

 spring do spend them. But the double! old, they grieve the stomach; and in hot 

 kinds continue not flowering in that manner' bodies cause the choler to abound and the 

 all the year long, although they flower very : hcad-ach, and are an enemy to those that 

 early sometimes, and in some places very ! have the cough ; but are less hurtful to those 

 late. 5 that have a colder stomach, and are said to 



Government and virtues.] The Moon rules \ kill the broad worms in the belly or stomach, 

 them. Galen, in his seventh book of sim- 1 If they be taken with onions, salt, and 

 pie medicines, saith, That the yellow Wall- I honey, they help the biting of a mad dog, 

 flowers work more powerfully than any or the venom or infectious poison of any 

 of the other kinds, and are therefore of more: beast, &c. Caias Pompeius found in the 

 use in physic. It cleanses the blood, and j treasury of Mithridales, king of Pontus, 

 fretteth the liver and reins from obstruc-j when he was overthrown, a scroll of his own 

 tions, provokes women's courses, expels the; hand writing, containing a medicine against 

 secundine, and the dead child; helps the I any poison or infection; which is this; 

 hardness and pain of the mother, and of 1 Take two dry walnuts, and as many good 

 spleen also; stays inflammations and swell- j figs, and twenty leaves of rue, bruised and 



