234 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Carditus B. Maria. Our Ladies Thistles. are drying and binding, help dimness of the 

 They are far more temperate than Cardum <\ sight : help the spleen, preserve from 

 Benedictus, open obstructions or' the liver, | drunkenness, and help the evil effects of it: 

 help the jaundice and dropsy, provoke j provoke the menses, 

 urine, break the stone. Centaurium, majus, minus. Centaury the 



Carduus Benedictus. Blessed Thistle, but j greater and less. They say the greater 

 better known by the Latin name : it is hot| will do wonders in curing wounds : see the 

 and dry in the second degree, cleansing and I root. The less is a present remedy for the 

 opening, helps swimming and giddiness in j yellow jaundice, opens stoppings of the 

 the head, deafness, strengthens the memory, \ liver, gall, and spleen : purges choler, helps 

 helps griping pains in the belly, kills worms, j gout, clears the sight, purgeth the stomach, 

 provokes sweat, expels poison, helps in- j helps the dropsy and green sickness. It is 

 rlammation of the liver, is very good in } only the tops and flowers which are useful, 

 pestilence and venereal: outwardly applied, J of which you may take a dram inwardly in 

 it ripens plague-sores, and helps hot swell- j powder, or half a handful boiled in posset- 

 ings, the bitings of mad dogs and venomous } drink at a time. 



beasts, and foul filthy ulcers. Every one ! Centinodium, fyc. Knotgrass : cold in the 

 that can but make a Carduus posset, knows \ second degree, helps spitting and other 

 how to use it. Camerarius, Arnuldus vel \ evacuations of blood, stops the menses and 

 unovanus. \ all other fluxes of blood, vomiting of blood, 



Chalhia. See the roots, under the name | gonorrhaea, or running of the reins, weak- 

 of white Chameleon. I ness of the back and joints, inflammations 



Corallina. A kind of Sea Moss : cold, { of the privities, and such as make water by 

 binding, drying, good for hot gouts, in- 1 drops, and it is an excellent remedy for 

 flammations : also they say it kills worms, hogs that will not eat their meat. Your 



only way is to boil it, it is in its prime about 

 the latter end of July, or beginning of 

 August : at which time being gathered it 



and therefore by some is called Maw-worm- 

 seed. 



Ciissutha, cascuta, potagralini. Dodder. 

 See Epithimum. may be kept dry all the year. Brassavolm, 



Caryophyllata. Avens, or Herb Bennet, \ Cdmerarius. 



hot and dry : they help the cholic, rawness : Caryfolium vulgare et Myrrhis. Common 

 of the stomach, stitches in the sides, -and great chervil: Take them both together, 

 stoppings of the liver, and bruises. \ and they are temperately hot and dry, pro- 



Cataputia minor. A kind of Spurge. See J voke urine, stir up venery, comfort the 

 Tythymulus. \ heart, and are good for old people ; help 



Cattaria, Nepeta. Nep, or Catmints, j pleurises and pricking in the sides. 

 The virtues are the same with Calaminth. Capea, Anagallis aquatica. Brooklime, 



Cauda Equina. Horse-tail; is of a bind-! hot and dry, but not so hot and dry as 

 ing drying quality, cures wounds, and is an j Water cresses ; they help mangy horses ; 

 admirable remedy forsinews that are shrunk : j see Water cresses. 



it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the nose, j Ceterach, $c. Spleenwort : moderately 

 or by wound, stops the menses, fluxes, \ hot, waste and consumes the spleen, inso- 

 ulcers in the reins and bladder, coughs, j much that Vitruvius affirms he hath known 

 ulcers in the lungs, difficulty of breathing, j hogs that have fed upon it, that have had 



Caulis, Brassica hortensis, sihestris. Cole- . (when they were killed) no spleens at all. 

 wort, or Cabbages, garden and wild. They I It is excellently good for melancholy people, 



