Salmon ’ s Herbal. Lib. I. 
of the fume form, and greennefs, that thereby it may 
at the firft fight be known to be a Comfrey, by any 
who has well obferved the Common Kind but more 
especially when the top Branches are in Flower -, 
which being placed after the fame manner, ana. oj 
the fame hollow fafhion, but f mailer , are of a m ° re 
ladyellowifh color-, whofe Seed following is a/Jo like 
the Seed of the other Kinds. The Stalks and. Leaves 
Dye away, or perifh every Tear, as they do in t e 
others, the Roots abiding and increafing in the tarth, 
and fhooting forth new Stalks and Leaves every 
Spring. Some make a leffer Species of this 1 liber- 
als Kind, which if there is any fuch thing, I am 
apt to believe, arifes only from the differing good- 
nefs of the Soil a fat and rich Soil making or pro- 
ducing a larger Riant than that can do which is poor 
and lean. , 
VI. The Rlaces. The two firft grow by Ditches 
and Water fides, and in divers low, fat, and moilt 
Fields, Orchards and Grounds ^ for in fuch they 
chiefly delight to grow : The firft is found general- 
ly through all England •, The fecond but in fom 
particular places : The third grows with us only in 
Gardens , but is found Wild in Woods and moilt 
places in Auftria, Hungary, and Germany. 
VII. The Times. They Flower in June and July, 
and perfect their Seed in Auguf. There are lev e- 
ral of the Confolida s, which have their different 
times of their flowering and feeding, as, i. The 
Symphitum, or Confolida Retraa, of which Diof co- 
rides fpeaks. 2. Confolida Sarafenica , Saracens Con- 
found. 3. Confohda Media , Bugle, or Middle Con- 
found. 4. Confolida minor, Rrunella, or Self-heal. 
5. Confohda Media, vel Beilis major Vulgaris, The 
Great White Wild Daifie. 6. Conf Ida minor vel 
Minima, Beilis minor Sylveftris , The Common Small 
Field Daifie. But as thefe are all of them different 
Plants, and not a Species of one and the lame Genus, 
nor properly any of the Comfrey s, fo we (hall fay no- 
thing of them here, but to avoid Confufion treat of 
them in their feveral and refpe£tive Chapters ; our 
intention being in this Chapter, to treat of that Plant, 
which we properly call Comfrey, and the Latins, Sym- 
phitum mu jus , which is of feveral forts, as are before 
defcribed. . 
VIII. The Vitalities. It is cold and dry in the 
firft Degree : Aftringent, Anodyn, Repercuffive and 
Vulnerary : Neurotick, Peftoral, and Arthritick ; 
Alterative, Anriemmenagogick, and Analeptick. 
IX. The Specification. It is of a Clammy and 
Glewing Nature, and is peculiar againft Fuxes of 
Blood, of what kind foever, whether internal or 
external. 
X. The Preparations. You may have therefrom, 
1. A Juice of the Leaves and Roots. 2. An Ef- 
fence of the fame. 3 - A Syrup of the Juice of the 
Root. 4. A Deco ft ion of the Root. 5. A Rouder 
of the Root. 6. A Baljam of the Root. 7. A Cata- 
plafm of the Root. 8. A Diftilled Water. 9. An 
Acid Aqueous Tinfture. 
The Virtues. 
XI. The Juice of Leaves or Roots. Camer arius lays, 
that two ounces of it being drank at a time, does 
much good in the Lethargy, and Dead Sleep : it is 
drying and binding in a great meafure, and is good 
for fuch as fpit Blood, bleed at Mouth, or make a 
bloody Urine : yet it opens Obftru&ions of the 
Lungs, and caufes ealie Expectoration. 
XII. TbeEJfence. It has all the former Virtues, but 
is much more effectual to ftop any Flux of Blood, 
in any part whatfoever. It prevails againft all in- 
ward hurts, bruifes and wounds, cleanles Ulcers of 
the Lungs, drys and heals them j and being taken 
Daily, Morning and Evening, it prevails againft Ca- 
tarrhs, and flops the defluxion of Rheum from the 
Head upon the Lungs ^ fluxes of Blood, or Humors 
by the Belly, and the immoderate or overflowing 
of the Courfes in Women : It flops alfo the over- 
flowing of the Whites 5 and ( univerfals being pre- 
mifed ) it cures a Gonorrhea, or Running of the 
Reins in Men , coming from what caufe foever. 
Dofe two or three ounces in Red Port Wine. 
XIII. The Syrup of the Juice of the Root. It has 
the Virtues of the Elfence, but caufes a better and 
more ealie ExpeCforation out of the Lungs * is good 
againft Coughs and Colds, Wheelings, and other 
like Diftempers of thofe Parts. It is faid to be 
good for fuch as have broken Bones, becaule it ha- 
Itens the breeding of the Callous -, and for the fame 
Reafon, it is faid alfo to be good to cure Ruptures 
in Children. It is fo powerful to Confolidate or 
Knit together, whatfoever needs knitting, that if 
the Roots be boiled with flelh cut into pieces, or 
rery deeply llalh’d, in a Pot, they will join them 
together again. 
XIV. The Decoftion in Wine or Water. It is 
good againft inward Bruifes and Wounds, inward 
Bleeding, Spitting, Vomiting, or Pilling Blood, as 
alfo the Bloody or Hepatick Flux -, and has indeed 
all the Virtues of the Juice, Elfence and Syrup, 
( but not full out fo effectual as they are ) be' lg 
drank to fix or eight ounces, Morning, Noon, and 
Night. It is alf© good to cleanfe, dry, and heal 
external Wounds, Ulcers, and Running Sores, they 
being walhed therewith once or twice a day. 
XV. The Rouder of the Root. Being taken in- 
wardly to one dram in a little of the Syrup, it flops 
inward bleeding, heals Wounds in the Stomach and 
Thorax, as alio Ulcers in the Lungs. If it is ap- 
plied to green Wounds, as foon as the Wound is 
made, it conglutinates or joins the Lips thereof to- 
gether, and caufes it fpeeaily to be healed : mixed 
with the Syrup, and applied to the Hemorrhoids or 
Piles, it cools the Inflammation, and reprelfes their 
over much bleeding, and allays the heat of the 
Parts adjacent, taking away, and eafing all the 
pain. 
XVI. The halfam of the Juice of the Root. It is 
a Angular Vulnerary, and cures Ample green Wounds, 
generally at one drefling. It is digeftive, and clean- 
ling, and dries up and heals running Sores, and old 
Ulcers, in any part of the Body, but chiefly in thofe 
parts which are not depending * refilling Gangrenes, 
Mortifications, Cfc. 
XVII. The Cataplafm of the Root. If it is made 
of the Ample Root, beaten into a Mucilage raw, 
and then fpread upon Leather or Linnen Cloth, and 
applied to parts pained with the Gout -, it gives 
prefent eafe to the pain, and fo admirably ftreng- 
thens the part, as that the Dileafe never returns 
any more from the old Caufe * and this I have fe- 
veral times proved. If it is made of the Root boil- 
ed till it is foft in Water, and then beaten into a 
Pulp, adding to it the Pouder of the Root, enough 
to bring it to the Confiftence of a Cataplafm, and 
it is prefently applied to any fimple Green Wound, 
or Cut, it quickly heals it by confolidating, or con- 
joining the lips theteof together : Apply’d alfo up- 
on broken Bones, it facilitates and fpeeds the Cure, 
by preventing a flux of Humors, inducing the Cal- 
lus, and lengthening the Part ^ and applied, is al- 
fo profitable againft Ruptures in Children. It is 
good alfo to be ufed to Womens Breafts, which 
fwell and grow hard and fore by the abundance of 
Milk flowing into them, which it does by a reper- 
cuffive Virtue : It alfo cools the Inflammation, a- 
bates the Swelling, and eafes the Pain of the Piles, 
as experience has fufficiently proved. It is alfo 
very profitable againft moift and running Ulcers, 
Gangrenes, 
