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jaundice ; they say one leaf cures a quoti- j helps all inward inflammations whatsoever 

 dian ague, three a tertain, and four a j Porrum. Leeks. See the roois. 

 quartan. I know it will cure agues without | Primula Veris. See Cowslips, or the 

 this curiosity, if a wise man have the hand- j Flowers, which you will. 

 Cng of it ; otherwise a cart load will not j Prunella. Self-heal, Carpenter's-herh, 

 do it. i and Sicklewort. Moderately hot and dry, 



Petroselinum. Parsley. See Smallage. ! binding. See Bugle, the virtues being the 



Per Columbinus. See Geranium. \ same. 



Persicarium folia. Peach Leaves: they \ Puleghtm. Pennyroyal; hot and dry in 

 are a gentle, yet a complete purger of j the third degree,; provokes urine, breaks 

 choler, and disease coming from thence ; 5 the stone in the reins, strengthens women's 

 (it for children because of their gentleness, i backs, provokes the menses, easeth their 

 You may boil them in white wine: a hand- \ labour in child-bed, brings away the pla- 

 tull is enough at a time. j centa, stays vomiting, strengthens the brain, 



Pilosella. Mouse-ear : once before and 5 breaks wind, and helps the vertigo, 

 this is often enough. Pulmonaria, arborea, et SympJnjtrnn macu- 



Pithyusa. A new name for Spurge ofilosum. Lung- wort. It helps infirmities of 

 the last Edition. the lungs, as hoarsness, coughs, wheezing, 



Plantago. Plantain. Cold and dry ; an ) shortness of breath, &c. You may boil it 

 herb, though common, yet let none des- in Hyssop-water, or any other water that 

 pise it, for the decoction of it prevails strengthens the lungs. 



mightily against tormenting pains and ex- Pulicaria. Fleabane ; hot and dry in the 

 conations of the entrails, bloody fluxes, it $ third degree, helps the biting of venomous 

 stops the menses, and spitting of blood, j beasts, wounds and swellings, the yellow 

 phthisicks, or consumptions of the lungs, ; jaundice, the falling sickness, and such as 

 the running of the reins, and the Fluor j cannot make water; being burnt, the smoak 

 Albus, pains in the head, and frenzies: out- i of it kills all the gnats and fleas in the 

 wardly it clears the sight, takes away in- \ chamber ; it is dangerous for pregnant 

 flammations, scabs, itch, the shingles, and ; women. 



all spreading sores, and is as wholesome an * Pynis sylvestris. Wild Pear-tree. I 

 herb as can grow about any an house. * know no virtue in the leaves. 

 Tragits, Dioscorides. Pyrola. Winter-green. Cold and dry, 



Politcm, $c. Policy, or Pellamountain : j and very binding, stops fluxes, and the 

 All the sorts are hot in the second degree, | menses, and is admirably good in green 

 and dry in the third: helps dropsies, the yel- j wounds. 



low jaundice, infirmities of the spleen, and \ Qnercus folia. Oak Leaves : Are much 

 provokes urine. Dioscorides. \ of I he nature of the former, stay the Fluor 



Polygmum. Knotgrass. j Albus. See the bark. 



Polytricum. Maidenhair. Ranunculus. Hath got a sort of English 



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Names : Crowfoot, King-kob, Gold-cups, 

 Gold-knobs, Butter-flowers, &c. they are 

 of a notable hot quality, unfit to be taken 



Portulaca. Purslain: Cold and moist 

 in the second or third degree: cools hot 

 stomachs, and it is admirable for one that 



hath his teeth on edge by eating sour apples, \ inwardly: If you bruise the roots and apply 

 it cools the blood, liver, and is good for hot j them to a plague-sore, they are notable 

 diseases, or inflammations in any of these Uhings to draw the venom to them, 

 places, stops fluxes, and the menses, and j Raparum folia. If they do mean Turnip 



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