THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



Oleum (k Capparibus. Wine, boil it in Balneo Maries till the Wine 



Or, Oil of Capers. j be consumed. 



College?] Take of the bark of Caper \ Culpeper.~] It heats, opens obstructions, 

 roots an ounce, bark of Tamarisk, the leaves \ strengthens the nerves, and all nervous parts, 

 of the same, the seeds of Agnus Castus,; as muscles, tendons, ligaments, the ventricle; 

 Cetrach, or Spleenwort, Cypress roots, of j besides these, it strengthens the liver, it 

 each two drams, Rue one dram, oil of ripe ; keeps the hairs from turning grey, and gives 

 Olives one pound, white Wine Vinegar, and \ a good colour to the body. I pray you 

 white Wine, of each two ounces', cut them i take notice that this and the following oils, 

 *nd steep them, and boil them (two days i (till I give you warning to the contrary) 

 being elapsed) gently in a bath, then the ? are not made to eat. 

 Wine and Vinegar being consumed, strain : Oleum Crocinum, 



it, and keep it. "" Or, Oil of Saffron. 



Culpeper.~\ The oil is opening, and hrat- \ College^ Take of Saffron, Calamus Aro- 

 ing, absolutely appropriated to the spleen, \ maticus, of each one ounce, Myrrh, half an 

 hardness and pains thereof, and diseases Jounce, Cardamoms nine drams, steep them 

 coming of stoppings there, as hypocondriac \ six days, (the Cardamoms excepted, which 

 melancholy, the rickets, &c. i are not to be put in till the last day,) in nine 



Oil of Castoreum compound. ! ounces of Vinegar, the day after put in a 



College.'] Take of Castoreum, Styrax \ pound and an half of washed oil, boil it 

 Calamitis, Galbanum, Euphorbium, Opo-j gently according to art, till the Vinegar, be 

 panax, Cassia Lignea, Saffron, Carpobal- i consumed, then strain it. 

 samum or Cubebs, Spikenard, Costus, oft Culpeper.~] It helps pains in the nerves, 

 each two drams, Cypress, Squinanth, Pep- 1 and strengthens them, mollifies their hard- 

 per long and black, Savin, Pellitory of Spain,! ness, helps pains in the matrix, and causes 

 of each two drams and an half, ripe Oil four j a good colour, 

 pounds, Spanish Wine two pounds, the fivej Oil of Euphorbium. 



first excepted, let the rest be prepared as * College.'] Take of Stavesacre, Sopewort, 

 they ought to be, and gently boiled in the; of each half an ounce, Pellitory of Spain 

 Oil and Wine, until the Wine be consumed, | six drams, dried Mountain Calaminl one 

 mean time the Galbanum, Opopanax, and : ounce and an half, Castus two drams, Cash 

 Euphorbium beaten in fine powder, being jtoreum five drams, being bruised, let them 

 dissolved in part of the Wine, and strained, j be three days steeped in three pounds and 

 let them be exquisitely mixed with it (while | an half of Wine, boil them with a pound 

 the oil is warm) by often stirring; the boil- land an half of Oil of Wall-flowers, adding 

 ing being finished, put in the Styrax and j half an ounce of Euphorbium, before thr- 

 Castoreum. i Wine be quite consumed, and so boil it 



Culpeper.~] The virtues are the same with \ according to art. 



the simple. j; Culpeper.'] It hath the same virtue, only 



Oleum Castinum. ; something more effectual than the simple. 



College.'] Take of the roots of bitter: Oleum Excestrense, 



Castus two ounces, Cassia Lignea one ounce, Or, Oil of Exeter, 



the tops of Marjoram eight ounces, being College?] Take of the leaves of Worm- 

 Ijruised, steep them two days in twelve wood, Centaury the less, Eupatorium, Fen- 

 nuuces of sweet white Wine; then with I nel, Hyssop, Bays, Marjoram, Bawm, Nep, 

 three pounds of sallad oil washed in white Pennyroyal, Savin, Sage, Thyme, of each 



