Specific in a Vertigo *, and laid on as a Plaifter, it 
diflolves coagulated Blood from Bruifes, &c. The 
whole Plant is fweet and fragrant, a little acrid and 
fharp ; mixt with other Garden Herbs, it gives 
them an agreeable Take, and is eaten both boiled 
and raw in Salads with other Herbs ; being a little 
pleafant it difpofes to Venery *, fried and laid to the 
Belly it’s a fure Remedy for the Gripes. Two Oun- 
ces of the Juice drank every Morning in white Wine 
is good in a Dropfy. For the Cholic its Juice is 
drank ; its Decoftion is given in Cly iters, and the 
fried Leaves are laid to the Belly, uled in the fame 
way ; it brings down the Menfes , and expels the 
Stone. It cures Crudities and Loofeneifes, and dif- 
cuffes fome inward and outward Swellings. The 
Herb opens Obftrudtions, is good in Fevers, and 
purifies the Blood. The Root is not ufed. 
6 2. 
Chick-Peas (Geer) is the only Pulfe that nei- 
ther breeds nor harbours Worms. If they are roait- 
£d till they are black, then powder’d and boil’d in 
W ater, they are the only fubflitute that we have for 
Coffee, and drink very like it, only a little bitterer, 
which is helped by making them and Coffee mixt of 
each alike •, Spanifh Chick Peas are befl for Coffee, 
and come neareft it. Chicks contain much Oil and 
Salt ; fome eat them freely for Food, but they are a 
little flatulent, fti'r up Lull, and fome imagine they 
increafe Seed. They are cleanfing, cutting, open- 
ing, and digefting*, provoke Urine, and greatly ex- 
pel Gravel and Stone ; and fo mult not be ufed 
where the Bladder is ulcerated. The Cream of their 
Decoction in Water opens the Belly, provokes 
Urine and Menfes , increafes both Milk and Seed.' 
Their Decoction with Rofemary is good for Dropfy, 
Jaundice, and Pains of the Sides. 
63. Chick- 
