44 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



leaves, when they are young and tender, ; the boughs stuck about a chamber, wonder- 

 they are held to provoke urine. I fully cool the air, and refresh such as have 



Rosmarirum. llostmary, hot and dry in j fevers ; the leaves applied to the head, 

 the second degree, binding, stops ihixqs, j help hot diseases there, and frenzies 

 helps stuffings in the head, the yellow jaun-j ^anjptucMan Marjoram, 

 dice, helps the memory, expels wind. Seel Snnicula. Sanicle; hot and dry in the 

 the flowers. Serapio, Dioscorides. i second degree, cleanses wounds and ulcers. 



Rosa solis. See the water. Sapoitaria. Sope-wort, or Bruise-wort, 



Rosa alba, rubra, Damascena. White, i vulgarly used in bruises and cut fingers, 

 Red, and Damask Roses. \ and is of notable use in the veneral disease 



Rumex. Dock ; All the ordinary sort of j Satureia. Savory. Summer savory is 

 Docks are of a cool and drying substance, j hot and dry in the third degree, Winter 

 and therefore stop fluxes; and the leaves j savory is not so hot, both of them expel 

 are seldom used in physic. : wind. 



Rnbus Idteus : Raspis, Raspberries, or ; Sazifragia alba. White Saxifrage, breaks 

 Hind-berries: I know no great virtues in wind, helps the cholic and stone, 

 the leaves. Scabiosa, Scabious : hot and dry in the 



Rnta. Rue, or Herb of Grace ; hot and j second degree, cleanses the breast and lungs, 

 dry in the third degree, consumes the seed, i helps old rotten coughs, and difficulty of 

 and is an enemy to generation, helps dif- j breathing, provokes urine, and cleanses the 

 ficulty of breathing, and inflammations of: bladder of filthy stuff, breaks aposthumes, 

 the lungs, pains in the sides, inflammations i and cures scabs and itch. Boil it in white 

 of the priapus and matrix, naught for preg- ; wine. 



nant women: no herb resists poison more. 1 Scariola. An Italian name for Succory. 

 It strengthens the heart exceedingly, andj Scluvnantlnis. Schcenanth, Squinanth, 

 no herb better than this in pestilential j or Chamel's hay; hot and binding. It 

 times, take it what manner you will or can. \ digests and opens the passages of the veins: 



Rut a Murfiria. See Adianthum. j surely it is as great an expeller of wind as 



Sab'ma. Savin: hot and dry in the third jany is. 



degree, potently provokes the menses, expels | Scordium. Water-Germander, hot and 

 both birth and afterbirth, they (boiled in -dry, cleanses ulcers in the inward parts, it 

 oil and used in ointments) sta}' creeping provokes urine and the menses, opens 

 ulcers, scour away spots, freckles and sun- j slopping of the liver, spleen, reins, bladder, 

 burning from the face ; the belly anointed jand matrix, it is a great counter poison, and 

 with il kills worms in children. leases the breast oppressed with flegm : see 



Sah'ia. Sage: hot and dry in the second \ Diascordium. 



or third degree, binding, it stays abortion j Scrophularia. Figwort, so called of 

 in such women as are subject to come before ScropTwla* the King's Evil, which it cures 

 their times, it causes fruitfulness, it is sin- J they say, by being only hung about the 

 gularly good for the brain, strengthens the | neck. If not, bruise it, and apply it to 

 senses and memory, helps spitting and j the place, it helps the piles or hemorrhoids, 

 vomiting of blood : outwardly, heat hot Sedum. And all his sorts : see Barba 

 with a little vinegar and applied to the side, Jovis. 

 helps stitches and pains in the sides. Senna. It heats in the second degree 



Salix. Willow leaves, are cold, dry, and jand dries in the first, cleanses, purges and 

 binding, stop spitting of blood, and fluxes; [digests; it carries downward both choler, 



