240 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Lens palustris. Duckmcat : Cold and ? provoke urine , the young sprouts open 

 moist in the second degree, helps inflamrna- j stoppings of the liver and spleen, cleanse 

 tions, hot swellings, and the falling out of I the blood, clear the skin, help scabs and 

 the fundament, being warmed and applied j itch, help agues, purge choler : they are 

 to the place. | usually boiled and taken as they eat asparagus, 



Lcpidium Piperites. Dittander, Pepper- j but if you would keep them, for they are 



wort, or Scar- wort : A hot fiery sharp herb, 

 admirable for the gout being applied to the 



the tooth-ache, and withall leaves a wan 

 colour in the hand that holds it. 



Livisticum. Lovage. Clears the sight, 

 takes away redness and freckles from the 

 face. 



Libanotis Coronaria. See Rosemary. 



excellent for these diseases, you may make 

 them into a conserve, or into a syrup 



place : being only held in the hand, it helps i Lychnitis Coronaria : or as others write 



it, Lychnis. Rose Campion. I know no 

 great physical virtue it hath. 



Mads. See the barks. 



Magistrantia. $c. Masterwort. Hot and 

 dry in the third degree : it is good against 

 poison, pestilence, corrupt and unwhole- 



Linaria. Toad-flax, or Wild-flax : hot j some air, helps windiness in the stomach, 

 and dry, cleanses the reins and bladder, \ causeth an appetite to one's victuals, very 

 provokes urine, opens the stoppings of the j profitable in falls and bruises, congealed 

 liver and spleen, and helps diseases coming; and clotted blood, the bitings of mad-dogs; 

 thereof: outwardly it takes away yellow- ; the leaves chewed in the mouth, cleanse the 

 ness and deformity of the skin. ', brain of superfluous humours, thereby pro 



Lillium convallium. Lilly of the Valley. ? venting lethargies, and apoplexes. 

 See the flowers. * j Malva. Mallows. The best of Authors 



Lingua Cerrina. Hart s-longue : drying j account wild Mallows to be best, and hold 

 and binding, stops blood, the menses and j them to be cold and moist in the first degree, 

 fluxes, opens stoppings of the liver and i they are profitable in the bitings of venom- 

 spleen, and diseases thence arising. The ] ous beasts, the stinging of bees and wasps, 

 like quantity of Hart's-tongue, Knotgrass ; &c. Inwardly they resist poison, provoke 

 and Comfrey Roots, being boiled in water, j to stool ; outwardly they assuage hard 

 and a draught of the decoction drunk every | swellings of the privities or other places; in 



morning, and the materials which have 

 boiled applied to the place, is a notable 

 remedy for such as are bursten. 



Limonium. Sea-bugloss, or Marsh-bug- 



clysters they help roughness and fretting of 

 the entrails, bladder, or fundament ; and so 

 they do being boiled in water, and the 

 decoction drank, as I have proved in the 

 bloody flux. 



Majorana. See Amaraeus. 



Mandrasora. Mandrakes. Fit for no 



loss, or Sea- Lavender; the seeds being very 

 drying and binding, stop fluxes and the 

 menses, help the cholic and stranguary. 



Lotus urbana. Authors make some flutter j vulgar use, but only to be used in cooling 

 about this herb, I conceive the best take it | ointments. 



to be Trisolium Odoratum, Sweet Trefoyl, j Marrubium, album, nigrum,fcctidum. 

 which is of a temperate nature, cleanses j Marrubium album, is common Horehound. 

 the eyes gently of such things as hinder the \ Hot in the second degree, and dry in the 

 sight, cures green wounds, ruptures, or j third, opens the liver and spleen, cleanses 

 burstness, helps such as urine blood or are: the breast and lungs, helps old coughs, 

 bruised, and secures garments from moths. I pains in the sides, ptisicks, or ulceration of 



Lupulus. Hops. Opening, cleansing, j the lungs, it provokes the menses, ease* 



