230 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



dry and binding, cuts tough humours, cools ( held to be more cordial ; cools the blood, 

 the brain, liver and stomach, cools the j helps ulcers in the mouth; hot defluxions 

 blood in fevers, and provokes appetite. : upon the lungs, wounds, ulcers, &c. 



Acanthus. Bears-breech, or Branks j Alcea. Vervain Mallow. The root helps 

 ursine, is temperate, something moist. See j fluxes and burstness. jEtius, Dioscorides. 

 the root. Alhum. Garlick. Hot and dry in the 



Adiantum, Album, nigrum. Maiden hair, ^ fourth degree, troublesome to the stomach : 

 white and black. They are temperate, yet j it dulls the sight, spoils a clear skin, resists 

 drying. White Maiden hair is that we! poison, eases the pains of the teeth, helps 

 usually call Wall-rue ; they both open ob-jthe bitings of mad dogs, and venomous 

 structions, cleanse the breast and lungs of\ beasts, helps ulcers, leprosies, provokes 

 gross slimy humours, provoke urine, help i urine, is exceedingly opening, and profita- 

 ruptures and shortness of wind. | ble for dropsies. 



Adiantum Aurcum Politrycum. Golden j Althcea, fyc. Marsh-Mallows. Aremode- 

 Maiden-hair. Its temperature and virtues jratelyhotand drier than other Mallows; they 

 are the same with the former; helps the \ help digestion, and mitigate pain, ease the 

 spleen ; burned, and lye made with the : pains of the stone, and in the sides. Use 

 ashes, keeps the hair from falling off the j them as you were taught in the roots, whose 

 head. j virtues they have, and both together will 



Agrimonia, Agrimony. Galen's Eupa- do better. 



torium. It is hot and dry in the first degree, j Alsine. Chickweed. Is cold and moist 

 binding, it amends the infirmities of the! without any binding, assuages swelling, 

 liver, helps such as evacuate blood instead! and comforts the sinews much ; therefore it 

 of water, helps inward wounds, opens | is good for such as are shrunk up ; it dis- 

 obstructions. Outwardly applied it helps $ solves aposthumes, hard swellings, and 

 old sores, ulcers, &c. Inwardly, it helps j helps mange in the hands and legs, out- 

 the jaundice and the spleen. Take a dram j wardly applied in a pultis. Galen. 

 of this or that following, inwardly in white] Alchymilla. Ladies-Mantle. Is hot and 

 wine, or boil the herb in white wine, and 5 dry, some say in the second degree, some 

 drink the decoction. Galen, Pliny, Diosco-\ say in the third: outwardly it helps wounds, 

 rides, Serapio. j reduces women's breasts that hang*down: 



Ageretum. Hot and dry in the second de- 5 inwardly, helps bruises, and ruptures, stays 

 gree, provokes urine and the menses, dries ! vomiting, and the Fluor Albus, and is very 

 the brain, opens stoppings, helps the green J profitable for such women as are subject to 

 sickness, and profits such as have a cold, 1 miscarry through cold and moisture, 

 weak liver; outwardly applied, it takes! Alkanna. Privet hath a binding quality, 

 away the hardness of the matrix, and fillsj helps ulcers in the mouth, is good against 

 hollow ulcers with flesh. I burnings and scaldings, cherishes the nerves 



Agnus Castus, $c. Chast-tree. The leaves \ and sinews ; boil it in white wine to wash 



are hot and dry in the third degree ; expel j 

 wind, consume the seed, cause chastity 

 being only borne about one ; it dissolves 

 swellings of the testicles, being applied to 

 them, head-ache, and lethargy. 



the mouth, and in hog's grease for burnings 

 and scaldings. 



Amaracus, Majorana. Marjoram. Some 

 say 'tis hot and dry in the second degree, 

 some advance it to the third. Sweet Mar- 



Allajnla. Litjnla, fyc. Wood Sorrel. Itnofam, is an excellent remedy for cold dis- 

 is of the temperature of other So Tel. aH J ases in the brain, being only smelled to 



