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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot ; helps j milk in nurses, aal outwardly by ointment 

 the wind cholic, pains in the belly, stone in > helps leprosies. 



the reins and bladder, and is good in rup- ; Herniaria. The same with Empetron. 

 tures, and inward wounds. I suppose these 1 Helxine. Pellitory of the wall. Cold. 



moist, cleansing, helps the stone and gravel 

 the kidnies, difficulty of urine, sore 



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throats, pains in the ears, the juice 



are the general virtues of them all. 



Gramen. Grass: See the root. 



Gratiola. Hedge-Hyssop, purges water 



and fiegm, but works very churlishly, j dropped in them; outwardly it helps the 

 Gesner commends it in dropsies. {shingles and St. Anthonys fire. 



Asphodelus f&m. See the root. Hyppoglossum. Horse-tongue, Tongne- 



Hepatica, Lichen. Liverwort, cold and : blade or Double-Tongue. The roots help 

 dry, good for inflammations of the liver, ; the stranguary, provoke urine, ease the 

 or any other inflammations, yellow jaundice. 1 hard labour of women, provoke the menses, 



Hedera Arborea, Terrostris. Tree and t the herb helps ruptures and the fits of the 

 Ground-Ivy. Tree-Ivy helps ulcers, burn- ! mother : it is hot in the second degree, dry 



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ings, scaldings, the bad effects of the spleen ; 

 the juice snuffed up the nose, purges the 

 head, it is admirable for surfeits or head- 

 ache, or any other ill effects coming of 

 drunkenness. Ground-Ivy is that which 

 usually is called Alehoof, hot and dry, the 

 juice helps noise in the ears, fistula's, gouts, 

 stoppings of the liver, it strengthens the 

 reins and stops the menses, helps the yellow 

 jaundice, and other diseases coming of 

 stoppings of the liver, and is excellent for 

 wounded people. 



Herba Camphorata. Stinking; Ground- 



in the first : boil it in white wine. 



Hyppolapatliitm. Patience, or Monk's 

 Rhubarb : see the Root. 



Hypposdinum. Alexanders, or Alisan- 

 ders : provoke urine, expel the placenta, 

 help the stranguary, expel wind. 



Sage either taken inwardly or beaten and 

 applied plaister-wise to the matrix, draws 

 forth both menses and placenta. 



Hormimim. Clary : hot and dry in the 

 third degree; helps the weakness in the 

 back, stops the running of the reins, and 

 the Fluor Albus, provokes the menses, and 



pine, is of a drying quality, and therefore j helps women that are barren through cold- 

 stops defluxions either in the eyes or upon \ ness or moisture, or both : causes fruitful- 



the lungs, the gout, cramps, palsies, aches : 

 strengthens the nerves. 



ness, but is hurtful for the memory. The 

 ^ usual way of taking it is to fry it with but- 



Herbu Paralysis, Primula veris. 

 roses, or Cowslips, which you will. The 5 Hydropiper. Arsmart. Hot and dry, 

 leaves help pains in the head and joints ; | consumes all coW swellings and blood con- 

 see the flowers which are most in use. j gealed by bruises, and stripes ; applied to 



Herba Paris. Herb True-love, or One- \ the place, it helps that aposthume in the 

 berry. It is good for wounds, falls, bruises, j joints, commonly called a felon: strewed 

 aposthumes, inflammations, ulcers in the j in a chamber, kills all the fleas there: this 

 privities. Herb True-love, is very cold in \ is hottest Arsmart, and is unfit to be given 

 temperature. You may take half a dram inwardly : there is a milder sort, called 



of it at a time in powder. 



Herba Roberti, A kind of Cranebill. 



Herba venti^ Anemone. Wind-flower. The 

 juice snuffed up in the nose purgeth the 

 head, it cleanses filthy ulcers, encreases \ for the gout, being roasted between two 



Persicaria, which is of a cooler and milder 

 quality, drying, excellently good for putri- 

 fied ulcers, kills worms : 1 had almost for- 

 got that the former is an admirable remedy 



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