242 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



help the scurvy, provoke urine and the {travel four days without either meat or 

 menses, break the stone, help the green-sick- j drink, by only chewing a little of this in 



uess, cause a fresh lively colour. 



Nasturtium Alhum, Thlaspie. Treacle- 

 mustard. Hot and dry in the third degree, 

 purges violently, dangerous for pregnant 



their mouths : It eases the body of super- 

 fluous humours, opens stoppings See the 

 ointment of Tobacco. 



Nummularia. Money -\rort, or Herb 



women Outwardly it is applied with profit j Two-pence; cold, dry, binding, helps fluxes, 

 to the gout. | stops the menses, helps ulcers in the lungs; 



Nicorimt. Tobacco. It is hot and dry ! outwardly it is a special herb for wounds, 

 in the second degree, and of a cleansing ! Nymphea. See the flowers, 

 nature : the leaves warmed and applied to > ; Ocynum. Basil, hot and moist. The best 

 the head, are excellently good in inveterate j use that I know of it, is, it gives speedy 

 head-aches and megrims, if the diseases j deliverance to women in travail. Let them 

 come through cold or wind, change them \ not take above half a dram of it at a time 

 often till the diseases be gone, help such 1 1 in powder, and be sure also the birth be 

 whose necks be stiff: it eases the faults of ! ripe, else it causes abortion, 

 the breast : Asthma's or head-flegm in the \ Olece folia. Olive leaves : they are hard 

 lappets of the lungs : eases the pains of the ! to come by here. 



stomach and windiness thereof: being heated | Ononis. Restharrow. See the roots, 

 by the fire, and applied hot to the side, they \ Ophioglossum. Adder's-tongue. The leaves 

 loosen the belly, and kill worms being ap- j are very drying : being boiled in oil they 

 plied unto it in like manner : they break j make a dainty green balsam for green 

 the stone being applied in like manner to * wounds : taken inwardly, they help inward 

 the region of the bladder : help the rickets, wounds. 



being applied to the belly and sides: applied 

 to the navel, they give present ease to the 



Origanum. Origany : a kind of wild 

 Marjoram ; hot and dry in the third degree, 



fits of the mother : they take away cold | helps the bitings of venomous beasts, such 

 aches in the joints applied to them: boiled, \ as have taken Opium, Hemlock, or Poppy; 

 the liquor absolutely and speedily cures \ provokes urine, brings down the menses, 

 scabs and itch: neither is there any betters helps old coughs; in an ointment it helps 

 salve in the world for wounds than may be ! scabs and itch. 



made of it : for it cleanses, fetches out the \ Oxylapathum. Sorrel. See Acetosa. 

 filth though it lie in the bones, brings up the Papaver, $c. Poppies, white, black, or 

 flesh from the bottom, and all this it doth : erratick. I refer you to the syrups of each 

 speedily : it cures wounds made with poi- j Parietaria. Given once before under the 

 soned weapons, and for this Clusius brings : name of Hehine. 



many experiences too tedious here to relate. \ Pastiruea. Parsnips. See the roots. 

 It is an admirable thing for carbuncles and ! Persicaria. See Hydropiper. This is the 

 plague-sores, inferior to none: green wounds [milder sort of Arsmart [described there: 

 'twill cure in a trice : ulcers and gangreens \ If ever you find it amongst the compounds, 

 very speedily, not only in men, but also in | take it under that notion, 

 beasts, therefore the Indians dedicated it to \ Pentaphyllium. Cinquefoil: very drying, , 

 their god. Taken in a pipe, it hath almost! yet but meanly hot, if at all ; helps ulcers 

 as many virtues; it easeth weariness, takes! in the mouth, roughness of the wind-pipe" 

 away the sense of hunger and thirst, pro- j (whence comes hoarsness and coughs, &c.) 

 vokes to stool: he saith, the Indians will I helps fluxes, creeping ulcers, and the yellow 



