272 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



wine it provokesthe menses, helps the bitings S tures in the skull and head. See Arceia' 

 of venomous beasts, and dissolves congealed | liniment. 



blood in the body. Gum Lacca being well purified, and (he 



Ambergreese is hot and dry in the second j quantity of half a dram taken in any con. 

 degree, I will not dispute whether it be a ' venient liquor, strengthens the stomach an 

 Gum or not: It strengthens nature much 'liver, opens obstructions, helps the yelloxv 

 which way soever it be taken, there are but j jaundice and dropsy ; provokes urine, 

 few grains usually given of it at a time :! breaks the stone in the reins and bladder, 

 mixed with a little ointment of Orange; Liquid Amber is not much unlike liquid 

 flowers, and the temples and forehead ; Styrax: by unction it warms and comforts 

 anointed with it, it eases the pains of the! a cold and moist brain, it eases all griefs 

 head and strengthens the brain exceedingly ; j coming of a cold cause, it mightily comforts 

 the same applied to the privities, helps the | and strengthens a weak stomach, being 

 fits of the mother; inwardly taken ill anointed with it, and helps digestion ex- 

 strengthcns the brain and memory, thei ceedingly, it dissolves swellings. It is hot 

 heart and vital spirit, Wcums cold stomachs, I in the third degree, and moist in the first, 

 and is an exceeding strengthener of nature 



to old people, adding vigour to decayed and 



I think it would do the commonwealt 

 no fiarm if I should speak a word or two o 



worn-out spirits : it provokes venery, and I Manna here, although it be no Gum : Icon 

 makes barren women fruitful, if coldness j fess authors make some nutter about it, 

 and moisture or weakness be the cause im- 1 what it is, some holding it to be the juice 

 pediting. of a tree ; I am confident it is the very same 



Attqfiehda being smelled to, is vulgarly 

 known to repress the fits of the mother ; 

 a. little bit put into an aching tooth, pre- 



condensated that our honey-dews here are, 

 only the contries whence it comes being far 

 hotter, it falls in great abundance. Let him 



sently eases the pain, ten grains of it taken \ that desires reason for it, be pleased lo read 

 before dinner, walking half an hour after j Butlers book of Bees, a most excellent 

 it, provokes appetite, helps digestion, \ experimental work, there he shall find rca- 

 strengthens the stomach, and takes away j son enough to satisfy any reasonable man. 

 loathing of meat, it provokes lust exceed- ] Choose the driest and whitest; it is a very 

 ingly and expels wind as much. | gentle purger of choler, quenches thirst, 



Borax, besides the virtues it has to solder ! provokes appetite, eases the roughness ot 

 Gold, Silver, Copper, &c. inwardly given! the throat, helps bitterness in the throat, 

 in small quantities, it stops fluxes, and the; and often proneness to vomit, it isverygoov. 

 running of the reins: being in fine powder, ? for such as are subject to be costive to put 

 and put into green wounds, it cures them at j it into their drink instead of sugar, it hatn 

 once dressing. j no obnoxious quality at all in it, but may 



Gambuge, which the College calls Gutta \ be taken by a pregnant woman without any 

 Gamba. I know no good of it. \ danger ; a child of a year old may take an 



Curanna outwardly applied, i? excellent ; ounce of it at a time dissolved in milk, it 

 for aches and swellings in the nerves and I will melt like sugar, neither will it be known 

 ioints : If you lay it behind the ears, it j from it by the taste. 



draws back humours from the eyes; applied j ]\li/r'-h is hot and dry in the second degree 

 to the temples as they usually do Mastich, it J dangerous for pregnant women, it is bitter 

 Helps the tooth-ache. 'jam! yet held to be good for the ro-.u<hnes? 



Gum Elimi, authors appropriate to frac- '<' the throat and wind-pipe ; half a <iium ,f 



