218 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



fasting in a decoction made with the same 



oot and water. 



vulsions ; both of them resist poison. I 

 never read any use of the climing birth- 



Acori, Veri, Perigrmi, vulgaris, Sfc. See j; wort. 

 Calamus Aromaticus. I shall not speak c"on-| Artanita, Cyclaminis, $c. Or Sowbread ; 

 cerning the several sorts of it, one of which [ hot and dry in the third degree, a most 

 is Water-flag, or Flower-de-luce, which is; violent purge, dangerous; outwardly ap- 

 hot and dry in the second degree, binds, i plied to the place, it profits much in the 

 strengthens, stops fluxesW the belly, and i bitings of venomous beasts, also being hung 

 .immoderate flowing of the menses, a dram about women in labour, it causes speedy 

 eing taken in red wine every morning. | deliverance. See the Herb. 



Allium. Garlic. It is hot and dry in the; Annidinis, Fallanorue, and Saccharines 

 fourth degree, breeds corrupt blood, yet is | Of common reeds and sugar reeds. The 

 an enemy to all poisons, and such as are j roots of common reeds applied to the place 

 bitten by cold venomous beasts, viz. Adders, i draw out thorns, and ease sprains; the 

 Toads, Spiders, &c. it provokes urine, and | ashes of them mixed with vinegar, take 

 expels wind. I scurf, or dandrif off from the head, and 



Alcanna. Of privet. See the leaves. ; prevent the falling off of the hair, they are 



Althtfce. Of Marsh mallows, are meanly j hot and dry in the second degree, according 

 hot, of a digesting, softening nature, ease j to Galen. *J never read any virtue of the 

 pains, help bloody fluxes, the stone, and i root of sugar cane. 



gravel; being bruised and boiled in milk, : Ari, $c. Of Cuckow-points, or "VVake- 

 and the milk drank, is a good remedy for gri- \ Robin, hot and dry in the third degree, 

 pings of the belly, and the bloody flux. If! I know no great good they do inwardly 

 a fever accompany the disease, boil a hand- 1 taken, unless to play the rogue withal, or 

 ful of common mallow leaves with a hand-! make sport: outwardly applied, they take 

 ful of these roots. |off scurf, morphew, or freckles from the 



Angelica. Of Angelica; is hot and dry ? face, clear the skin, and ease the pains 

 in the third degree, strengthens the heart, \ of the gout. 



and is good against pestilence and poison,; Ai>depiadis,vincetosid. Of Swallow-wort, 

 half a dram taken in the morning fasting. : hot and dry, good against poison, and* 



Anchusa. Of Alkanet ; cold and dry, Igripings of the belly, as also against the 

 binding, good for old ulcers. s bitings of mad dogs, taken inwardly. 



Anthorce. A foreign root, the counter- j Asari. Of Asarabacca : the- roots are 

 poison for Monkshood, it is an admirable la safer purge than the leaves, and not so 



remedy for the wind cholic, and resists 

 poison. 



violent, they purge by vomit, stool, and 

 urine ; they are profitable for such as have 



Apii. Ofsmallage. See the barks. { agues, dropsies, stoppings of the liver, or 

 AristolochifB. Of birth wort ; of which are I spleen, green sickness, 

 three sorts, long, round, and climing: All t Asparagi. Of Asparagus, or sperage : 

 hot and dry in the third degree. The long, i they are temperate in quality, opening, 

 oeing drank in wine, brings away both \ they provoke urine, and cleanse the reins 

 birth and after-birth, and whatsoever a care- 1 and bladder, being boiled in while wine, 

 ess midwife luith left behind. Dioscorides, \ and the wine drank. 



Galen. The round, being drank with wine, ! Asphodeli, Hastte Reiga fam. Of King* 

 elps (besides the former) stuffings of the! Spear, or Female Asphodel. I know no 

 uiigs, hardness of the spjeen, ruptures, con- j physical use of Hie roots probably there 



