220 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



cramps: half a dram in powder be-|it opens obstructions of the liver, beino 

 ing taken inwardly, either in muskadel, j boiled in white wine, and the decoctions 

 or in a decoction of the same roots, j drank ; and if chewed in the mouth it helps 

 They are either not at all, or very scarce j the tooth-ache. Celandine the lesser is 

 in England, our centaury is the small cen-jthat which usually we call Pilewort, which 

 tuary. 5 with us is hot in the first degree ; the juice 



CepoK. Of Onions. Are hot and dry j of the root mixed with honey and snuffed 

 (according to Galen) in the fourth degree :j up in the nose, purges the head, helps the 

 they cause dryness, and are extremely hurt- j hemorrhoids or piles being bathed with it, 

 ful for choleric people, they breed but little j as also doth the root only carried about one: 

 nourishment, and that little is naught: they j being made into an ointment, it helps the 

 are bad meat, yet good physic for phleg-j king's evil or Scrophula. 

 matic people, they are opening, and pro-? China, wonderfully extenuates and dries, 

 voke urine and the menses, if cold be the provokes sweat, resists putrefaction; i> 

 cause obstructing : bruised and outwardly j strengthens the liver, helps the dropsy and 

 applied, they cure the bitings of mad dogs, i malignant ulcers, leprosy, itch, and vene- 

 roasted and applied, they help boils, and j real, and is profitable in diseases coming of 

 aposthumes : raw, they take the fire out of | fasting. It is commonly used in diet drinks 

 burnings, but ordinarily eaten, they cause | for the premises. 



headache, spoil the sight, dull the senses,* Cichorii. Of Succory; cool and dry in 

 and fill the body full of wind. > the second degree, strengthens the liver and 



Chameleontis albi nigri, $c. Of Chame-j veins, it opens obstructions, stoppings in the 

 Icon, white and black. Tragus calls the j liver and spleen, being boiled in white wine 

 carline thistle by the name of white chame- j and the decoction drank, 

 icon, the root whereof is hot in the second ' Colchici. Of Meadow Saffron. The 

 degree, and dry in the third, it provokes { roots are held to be hurtful to the stomach, 

 sweat, kills worms, resists pestilence and { therefore I let them alone, 

 poison ; it is given with success in pestilen- i Consolidce, majoris, minoris. Consolida 

 tial fevers, helps the toothache by being j Major, is that which we ordinarily call 

 chewed in the mouth, opens the stoppings jComfry, it is of a cold quality, yet pretty 

 of the liver and spleen, provokes urine, and = temperate, so glutinous, that, according to 

 the menses : give but little of it at a time. \Dioscorides, they will join meat together 

 by reason of its heat. As for the black j that is cut in sunder, if they be boiled with 

 chameleon, all physicians hold it to have} it; it is excellent for all wounds, both iu- 

 a "kind of venomous quality, and unfit to be Sternal and external, for spitting of blood, 

 used inwardly, Galen, Clusius, Nicander, \ ruptures or burstness, pains in the back, it 

 Dioscorides, and Mgiwta. Outwardly in j strengthens the reins, it stops the menses, 

 ointments, it is profitable for scabs, mor-|and helps hemorrhoids. The way to use 

 phew, tetters, &c. and all things that need (them is to boil them in water and drink the 

 cleansing. i decoction. Consolida minor, is that we 



Chelidony majoris, minoris. Of celandine, ; call Self-heal, and the latins Prunella. See 

 the greater and lesser : The greater is that j the herb. 



which we usually call Celandine: the root : Costi ufaMMgMCJ Of Costus both sorts 

 is hot and dry, cleansing and scouring, | being roots coming from beyond sea, hot 

 proper for such as have the yellow jaundice, land dry, break wind, being boiled in oil 



