240 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Tliymum. Thyme. Hot and dry in the 

 third degree; helps coughs and shortness of! 



a digesting, cleansing quality, stops fluxes 

 and the hemorrhoids, it cures hoarseness, 



breath, provokes the menses, brings away ; the cough, and such as are broken winded 

 dead children and the after birth; purges! Verbena. Vervain: hot and dry, a great 

 llegm, cleanses the breast and lungs, reins j opener, cleanser, healer, it helps the yellow 

 and matrix; helps the sciatica, pains in i jaundice, defects in the reins and bladdei, 

 the breast, expels wind in any part of the ; pains in the head ; if it be but bruised and 

 body, resists tearfulness and melancholy, j hung about the neck, all diseases in the 

 continual pains in the head, and is prorita- privities ; made into an ointment it is a 

 ble for such as have the falling-sickness to j sovereign remedy for old head-aches, as 

 smell to. -also frenzies, it clears the skin, and causes 



Thymfelea. The Greek name for Spurge- 1 a lovely colour. 

 Olive : Mezereon being the Arabick name. I Voronica. See Betonica Pauli. 



Tithymallus, Esula, $c. Spurge. Hot < Violaria, Violet Leaves : they are cool, 

 and dry in the fourth degree : a dogged j ease pains in the head proceeding of heat 

 purge, better let alone than taken inwardly: I and frenzies, either inwardly taken, or out- 

 hair anointed with the juice of it will fall \ wardly applied ; heat of the stomach, or in- 



off: it kills fish, being mixed with any 

 thing that they will eat: outwardly it 



flam (nation of the lungs. 



Vitis Vimseria. The manured Vine: the 



cleanses ulcers, takes away freckles, sun- leaves are binding and cool withal ; the 

 burning and morphew from the face. j burnt ashes of the sticks of a vine, scour 



Tormentilla. See the root. ] the teeth and make them as white as snow; 



Trinitalis herba. Pansies, or Heart's- 

 ease : They are cold and moist, both herbs 

 and flowers, excellent against inflammations 



the leaves stop bleeding, fluxes, heart- 

 burnings, vomitings ; as also the longings 

 of pregnant women. The coals of a burnt 



of the breast or lungs, convulsions or fall- j Vine, in powder, mixed with honey, doth 

 ing-sickness, also they are held to be good j make the teeth as white as ivory, which are 

 for venereal complaints. j rubbed with it. 



Trifolium. Trefoil: dry in the third; Vincitoxicum. Swallow-wort. A pultis 

 degree, and cold : The ordinary Meadow j made with the leaves helps sore breasts, and 

 Trefoil, cleanses the bowels of slimy humours I also soreness of the matrix, 

 that stick to them, being used either in \ Virga Pastoris. A third name for Tea- 

 drinks or clysters; outwardly they takejzles. See Dipsatus. 

 away inflammations. j Virga Aurea. See Consolida. 



Tussilago. Colt's-foot : something cold | Ulmaria. See the root. Meadswcet. 

 and dry, and therefore good for inflamma- | Umbslicus Veneris. Navil-wort : Cold, 

 tions, they are admirably good for coughs, j dry, and binding, therefore helps all in- 

 and consumptions of the lungs, shortness ! flammations ; they are very good for kibed 

 of breath, &c. It is often used and with \ heels, being bathed with it and a leaf laid 

 good success taken in a tobacco-pipe, being over the sore. 



cut and mixed with a little oil of annis > Urtica. Nettles : an herb so well known, 

 seeds. See the Syrup of Colt's-foot. j that you may find them by the feeling in 



Valeriana. Valerian, or Setwall. See \ the darkest night: they are something hot, 

 the roots. * not very hot ; the juice stops bleeding ; 



Verbascum, Thapsus Barbatus. Mullin, they provoke lust, help difficulty of breath- 

 or Higtaper. It is something dry, and of\ ing, pleurisies, inflammations of the lungs, 



