224 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Ononidis, Arrestce Bovis, #c. Of Cam- ' speedy deliverance to women in travail, and 

 i ock, or Rest-harrow, so called because it j brings away the placenta, 

 makesjjxen stand still when they are plough- : Poeonioe, maris, fbemellae. Of Peony male 



ing. Tne roots are hot and dry in the third 

 degree; it breaks the stone (viz. the bark 

 of it.) The root itself, according to Pliny, 



and female. They are meanly hot, but more 

 drying. The root helps women not sufficiently 

 purged after travail, it provokes the menses, and 



helps the falling-sickness; according to i helps pains in the belly, as also in the reins and 

 Matthiolus, helps ruptures : you may take ; bladder, falling sickness, and convulsions in 

 half a dram at a time. j children, being either taken inwardly, or hung 



Ostrutij. Masterwort, given once before J about their necks. You may take half a dram 

 under the name of Imperitoria. But I have f at a time, and less for children. 

 something else to do than to write one j Phu, Valerinae, majoris, minoris. Valc- 

 thing twice as they did. : rian, or Setwal, greater and lesser. They are 



Pastinatfe, Sativce, and silvestris; Garden * temperately hot, the greater provokes urine and 

 and Wild Parsnips. They are of a tern- 5 the menses, helps the stranguary, stays rheums 

 perate quality, inclining something to heat : \ in the head, and takes away the pricking pains 

 The Garden Parsnips provoke lust, and thereof. The lesser resist poison, assuages the 

 nourish as much and more too, than any \ swelling of the testicles, coming either through 

 root ordinarily eaten: the wild are morel wind or cold, helps cold taken after sweating or 

 physical, being cutting, cleansing, and ? labour, wind cholic: outwardly it draws out 

 opening: they resist the bitings of veno- \thorns, and cures both wounds and ulcers. 

 mous beasts, ease pains and stitches in the 5 Pimpinellae, &c. Of Bumet. It doth 

 sides, and are a sovereign remedy against : this good, to bring forth a gallant physical 

 die wind cholic. \ herb. 



Pentafylli. Of Cmqfyl, commonly called \ Plantaginis. Of Plant ane. The root h 

 Five-leaved, or Five-fmger'd grass : the root \ something dryer than the leaf, but not so cold, 

 is very drying, but moderately hot: It is lit opens stoppages of the liver, helps thejaun- 

 admirable against all fluxes, and stops \dice, and ulcers of the reins and bladder. A 

 blood flowing from any part of the body : \ little bit of the root being eaten, instantly stays 

 it helps infirmities of the liver and lungs, \pains in the head, even to admiration. 

 helps putrified ulcers of the mouth, the root ! Polypodij. Of Polypodium, or Fern of 

 boiled in vinegar is good against the i the Oak. It is a gallant though gentle 

 shingles, and appeases the rage of any j purger of melancholy ; Also in the opinion 

 fretting sores. You may safely take half -of Mesue (as famous a physician as ever 

 a dram at a time in any convenient liquor, j I read for a Galenist,) it dries up ssper- 



Petacitce. Of Butter-bur. The roots are j fluous humours, takes away swellings from 

 hot arid dry in the second degree, they are j the hands, feet, knees, and joints, stitches 

 exceeding good in violent and pestilential and pains in the sides, infirmities of the 

 fevers, they provoke the menses, expel poi- j spleen, rickets ; correct it with a few Annis 

 son, and kill worms. I seeds, or Fennel seeds, or a little ginger, 



Peucedani, Fa-niculi porcini. Of Sulphur- | and then the stomach will not loath it. 

 wort, Hogs-fennel, or Hore-strange. It is ! Your best way of taking it, is to bruise it 

 very good applied to the navels of children f well, and boil it in white wine till half be 

 that stick out, and ruptures: held in the j consumed, you may put in much, or little, 

 mouth, it is a present remedy for the fits of j according to the strength of the diseased, it 

 the mother : being taken inwardly, it gives { works very safely. 



