of Plinies Warirall Eitorie: 24.9 
A and putinto acup of wine: or the hearbe it felfe boiled with vinegre,or els frumentie pottage ta- 
ken with the juice thereof. Plantaine fodden with Lentils,or the pouder of the drie heatb {trew- 
ed like {pice into drinke,togetherwith the pouder of parched Poppie. I he juice alfo of Plantaine 
or of Bettonie put into wine that hath been heat with a red hote gad of ftecle, either miniftred 
by clyitre or drunke, in the faid cafe is very commendable. Moreover, the fame Plantaine or Bet- 
tonie is fingular to bee given in fome greene or auftere wine, for thofe who are troubled with the 
Jaske proceeding from a weake ftomacke : and for that purpofe Iberis may bee applied unto the 
region of their bellie,as I have before faid. | 
In the difeafe Tinefmus,(which is an inordinat quarrell to the ftoole,and a {training upon it, 
without doing any thing)the root of Nempharor Nymphza Heraclia,is fingular good to bee 
B drunke in wine :likewife Fleawort caken in water, & the decoction of *Galangale root. The juice + cori, which 
of Houfleeke or Sengreene,ftoppeth the flux of the wombe, ftaieth the bloudie flux, and chafech fome take for 
outof the bodiethe round wormes. The rootof Camftey and of the Carot,ftoppeth likewife the yn a7 
bloudie flix. The leaves of Houfleeke {tamped and taken in wine, are fingular good againft the 
wringing torments of the bellie. The pouder of dried Alexa drunke, cureth the faid wrings, A- 
ftragalus,/.Peafe Earthnwaet,an hearbe bearing long leaves,indented with many cuts or jagsjand 
thofe which be about the root made bias: rifeth up with three or foure {tems full of leaves: carri- 
eth a flower like unto the Hyacinth or Crow-toes:the roots are bearded and full of f{trings, en- 
folded one within another,red of colour, and exceeding hard in fubftance : it groweth in rockes 
and ftonie grounds expofed to the Sunne,and yet charged or covered with {now the moft part of 
C theyeare,fuch asis the mountaine Pheneusin Arcadia. Thisheatbe hath anaftringent power. 
The root if itbe drunke in wine,bindeth the bellie,by which meanes it provoketh urine,namely 
by driving backe theferous and waterie humoursto the reines; likeas moft of thofe fimples that 
beaftringent thatway,are diureticall. The fame rot {tamped and taken in red wine, healeth the 
exulceration of the guts,& thereby ftaieth the blondie flix:but furely hard it is to bruife or ftamp 
it: The fameis fingula; fur the apoftumation of the gums, if they be fomented therwith. The nghe 
feafon to drawand gather thofe roots, isin the end of Autumne, when the hearbe hath loft the 
leaves,and then they oughtto beedriedin the {hade. Both forts of Ladanum growing among 
corne, be excellent for to knit the bellie,if they be ftamped andfearced, The manner isto drink 
them in mead:likewifein wine*for to repreffe cholier.N ow the hearb wherofLadanum is made, *26:2 Some 
D iscalled Lada,and groweth in the Ifland Cyptos, the liquor wherof fticketh commonly to goats tad mobile 
beards, [ne excellent Ladanumcommieth out of Arabia. There isa kind of it made now adaies 
in Syriaand A ffricke, which they call Toxicon :for that in thofe countriees the people ufe to 
take their bowltrings lapped about with wooll,and traile the fame after them among thofe plants 
which beare Ladanum, and fo the* fattie dewcleaveth thereto. Of this Ladanum Lhave written , _. 4 
_ more at large in my Treatife of ointments & redolent compofitions. But this latter kind is ftron- ref pee 
geit in favor and hardeft in band sand no marvell,for it gathereth much groffe and earthly fub- 
ftance,whereas indeed the beft Ladanum is commended and chofen,when it is pure,cleare,odo- 
riferous,foft,greene,and full of rofin. The nature thereof is to foften,to drie,to concoa, andto 
procure {leepe: itretaineth the haire of the head being given to (hed,and maintaineth thefame 
E_ blacke {till that itturne not hoarie: holefome it isfor the eares,if itbee inftilledintothem with 
Hydromel, (thatisto fay, mead or honied water) or els with oileRofat. Itcleanfeth the skin of 
dandruffe,and when it feemeth to pill :and withall, healeth the running {cals of the head, if fale 
_ bemixed therewith.And beeing taken with Storax[Calamita] it curech an inveterat cough:but 
moft proper it is for thofe whobelch foure and ftrong. Moreover,Chondris,which alfo is called 
baftard Dictamnum,,isa great binder of the bellie:fois Hypocifthis, named by fome Oroba- 
thion,nuch refembling a green or unripe Pomgranat, This plant groweth(as I have faid)under 
Cifthus, whereupon it tookethe name. Both kinds of it(for twaine there be,to wit,the whiteand 
thered) being dried in the fhade,ftay a laske,if they bedrunke in thicke auftere or greene wine. 
Fp phejuice onely is ufed in Phyficke,the which is aftringent and deficcative: and the red kind is of 
the twaine more appropriat for the ftaying or drying up of rheumes ;which if itbee drunke to 
the weight of three oboli,isfoveraigne for them that reach and raife up bloud. Either drunke or 
clyfterized with Amy], it cureth the bloudie flix, The like effects hath Vervaine given in water, 
yea,and in Amminean wine, if the patient have no ague hanging upon him: with this proporti- 
on,thattherebe the quantitie of five fpoonefuls of the hearb put to three cyaths of wine.Mote- 
- ever, 
