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Of Comfrey. 
1. Lts Names. 
Omerey otherwife called Bugle, is reckon’d amongft 
- 4 the Confoundes or wound Herbs, and is called by fome 
Confolida media, Bugula, and Buglum, in High Dutch 'tis cal- 
led Guntzel, in Low Dutch Senegroen, and in Englifh Brown 
Bugle, Sicklewort, and middle Comfrey. 
2. Its Defcription. 
The Nature of this Herb is to fpread its felf and creep a- 
long the Ground like Moneywort. The Leaves are long and of 
a brownifh Colour. The Flowers grow in Parcels, encompafling 
the Stalk towards the Top with {mall Intervals between each 
Parcel , and are of a fair blew Colour, and fometimes very 
white ; butIrake the Bugle which produces white Flowers to be 
that called the white Bugle, andin Latin. Bugula flore albo, 
3. Ihe Temperature. 
This Herb is of a mean Temperature, being neither hot nor 
dry in any Degree whatfoever. . 
4. Lhe Medicinal Virtues. 
This Herb is yery good for inward Burftings, Member torn, 
rent or bruifed, and therefore ’tis put into Potions that ferve 
for Nodes, in which ’tis of fuch wonderful Virtue, as to dif- 
folve and wafte away congealed and clotted Blood. 
Ruellius writes, that ’tis a common faying in France, that 
she who hath Bug/e and Samick/e, necds no Phyfician or Surgeon : 
For its Virtues are fo great, that it does not only cure Wounds 
being inwardly taken,but outwardly alfo, being applied thereunto. 
Tis alfo yery good for the Infirmities of the Liver, it takes 
away the Obftructions, and gives great Strength thereunto. 
The Decoétion of Bugle being drank, diffolveth clotted or 
congeal’d Blood within the Body, and heals all manner of 
Wounds sither inward or outward. | The 
