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helps such as are given to much sighing,! Aquilegia. Columbines: help sore throats, 

 easeth pains in the bdly, provokes urinej are of a drying, binding quality, 

 being taken inwardly : you may take a dram j Argentina. Silver- weed, or Wild Tansy 

 of it at a time in powder. Outwardly in ; cold and dry almost in the third degiee; 

 oils or salves, it helps sinews that are shrunk ; j stops lasks, tiuxes, and the menses, good 

 limbs out of joint, all aches and swellings ! against ulcers, the-stone,and inward wounds: 

 coming of a cold cause. j easeth gripings in the belly, fastens loose 



Angelica. Is hot and dry in the third de- j teeth : outwardly it takes, away freckles, 

 gree; opens, digests, makes thin, strengthens jmorphew, and sunburning, it takes away 

 the heart, helps fluxes, and loathsomeness i inflammations, and bound to the wrists stops 

 of meat. It is an enemy to poison and pes- i the violence of the fits of the ague, 

 tilenee, provokes menses, and brings away i Ai-tanita. Sow- bread: hot and dry in 

 the placanta. You may take a dram of it j the third degree, it is a dangerous purge: 

 at a time in powder. ! outwardly in ointments it takes away freckles, 



Anagallis, mas,femina. Pimpernel, male \ sunburning, and the marks which the small 

 and female. They are something hot and | pox leaves behind them : dangerous for 

 dry, and of such a drying quality that they i pregnant women. 



draw thorns and splinters out of the flesh, ] Aristolochia, longa, rotunda. Birth-wort 

 amend the sight, cleanse ulcers, help in- \ long and round. See the roots, 

 firmities of the liver and reins. Galen. \ Artemisia. Mugwort : is hot and dry in 



Anethum. Dill. Is hot and dry in the 5 the second degree: binding: an herb ap- 



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second degree. It stays vomiting, eases 

 hiccoughs, assuages swellings, provokes 

 urine, helps such as are troubled with 



propriated to the female sex ; it brings down 

 the menses, brings away both birth and 

 placenta, eases pains in the matrix. You 



fits of the mother, and digests raw humours, j may take a dram at a time. 



Apium. Smallage ; So it is commonly i Asparagus. See the roots, 

 used ; but indeed all Parsley is called by the \ Asarurn, $c. Asarabacca : hot and dry ; 

 name of Apium, of which this is one kind, j provokes vomiting and urine, and are good 

 Itis something hotter and dryer than Parsley, j for dropsies. They are corrected with mace 

 and more efficacious; it opens stoppings of \ or cinnamon. 



the liver, and spleen, cleanses the blood, ' Atriplex, SfC. Orach, or Arrach. It is 

 provokes the menses, helps a cold stomach ; cold in the first degree, and moist in the 

 to digest its meat, and is good against the; second, saith Galen, and makes the belly 

 yellowjaundice. Both Smallage and Clevers, j soluble. Itis an admirable remedy for the 

 may be well used in pottage in the morning \ fits of the mother, and other infirmities of 



the matrix, and therefore the Latins called 



instead of herbs. 



Aparine. Goose-grass, or Clevers : They 

 arc meanly hot and dry, cleansing, help 

 the bi tings of venomous beasts, keep men's 

 bodies from growing too fat, help the yel- 

 low jaundice, stay bleeding, fluxes, and 



it Vulvaria. 



Aricula muris, major. Mouse-ear: hoi 

 and dry, of a binding quality, it is admira- 

 ble to heal wpunds, inward or outward, as 

 also ruptures or burstness : Edge-tools 



help green wounds. Dioscorides, Pliny, j quenched in the juice of it. will cut iron 

 Galen, Tragus. j without turning the edge, as easy as they 



Atpergwa odorata. Wood-roof: Cheers i will lead : And, lastly, it helps the swelling 



he heart, makes men merry, helps melan- 

 holy, and opens the stoppings of the liver. 



of the spleen, coughs and consumptions, of 

 the lungs. 

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