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Juice, drank in Goats Milk, cures the Whites. 
The Powder of the dried Herb and Flowers cures 
Bloody Urine. A Bag of the Herb, worn on the 
Stomach, is vouched to cure Agues. Its Root, 
chew’d in the Mouth, cures the Tooth-ach. It is 
fo eminent a Vulnerary, that Hollerius tells of a 
Kuftic who had his Nofe almoft cut off, he had 
the loofe hanging down Part quickly put lip, 
joined to the other, and, with the Herb bruifed in a 
little black Wine •, he bound it clumfily on, the 
Blood was quickly Hop’d, and the Wound cured 
with a pretty Scar. The bruifed Herb, with a little 
Cobweb, fpeedily cures Wounds. 
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Mint, SpearMint, Garden Mint, and 
Mints. ( Mentha ) Its Infufion or Decoction is 
greatly ufed in Weaknefs, and Crudity of the Sto- 
mach, Heavings or Vomitings, Pliccup, Windi- 
nefs and burning Heats, if>c. in Obftrudlions of 
the Liver, Griping of the Guts, and Swimming of 
the Head. It cures Excefs of Menfes , and Fluor 
albns . It cafes Children’s Gripes, ftrengthens the 
Brain and Memory, and checks immoderate Venereal 
Defires ; reftores a loft Appetite and Digeftion ; it 
warms and promotes Perfpiration much ; for all 
which its Tea, Infufion, Decoftion, diftill’d Wa- 
ter or Powder, are chiefly ufed. Applied out- 
wardly it takes away the Hardnefs of the Breafts, 
Curdling of the Milk, and cures Head-achs. The 
Leaves, -fteep’d in Milk, hinder its Curdling for 
Cheefe. It hinders the Curdling on the Stomachs 
of Infants, tender, lick, and weak Perfons. Two 
Ounces of the Water, drank and repeated as often 
as is neceffary, or as much of the Tea of dried 
Mint, often flop the fevereft Vomitings; for 
•which it is the next Succedaneum to Riverius\ 
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