7 2 4 
SalmonV Herbal. Lib. I. 
VIII. The Qualities. Money-wort is cold in 
the fiiil Degree, and dry in the fecond. It is 
Aftringent, Vulnerary, and PeSoral. 
IX. The Specification. It Hops all forts Ci 
Fluxes of the Bowels and Womb, heals Wounds 
and Ulcers, and prevails again!! Confumptbns of 
the Lungs. 
X. The Preparations. You may make there- 
from, I. A Liquid Juice. 7. An Effence 3 - An 
Injufion or Dec oil ion m Water or Wine. 4. A 
Syrup or Lohoch. ;. A Ponder of the Herb or 
Seed. 6. An Ointment or Balfam. 7. A Cata- 
plafm. 
and boiled in Oil Olive , with an addition of Rofin, 
Wax, and Tupentine. Authors fay , that there is 
not a better Wound Herb than this, no not Tobacco 
it felf, nor any Other Herb whatfoever. 
CHAP. CCCCXCVIF. 
Of M O O N - W O R T . 
The Virtues. 
XI. The Liquid Juice. It is very Aftringent, 
binding, and drying; and is good to Hop all 
Fluxes of Blood in Man or Woman, whether it be 
a Diarrhea , Dyfenteria, Lienteria, Hepatick Flux, 
or the overflowing of the Courfes in Women; it 
Hops alfo all forts of Bleedings, whether outward, 
or inward , as Spitting , Vomiting, or Pifling of 
Blood; rectifies the Weaknefs of the Stomach, 
ftrengthens it, and Hops Vomiting; healing all 
excoriations or Ulcers thereof, as alfo of the Lungs, 
and of other inward parts. Dofe 3 or 4 Spoon- 
fulls at a time either mixt with Honey , or in a 
Glafs of red Port, or red F lorence Wine, Morning 
and Night. 
XII. The Effence. It has all the Virtues of the 
Liquid Juice, and may be given in the fame man- 
ner , from 2 to 4 Spoonfuls : befides which, it is 
an excellent thing to heal all fimple green Wounds; 
and to digeft, cleanfe, incarnate, dry, and heal all 
forts of old Ulcers, not yet become cacoethick. 
Hopping the Fluxion of fharp and moil! Humors 
which attends them, caufing them either to lpread, 
or to be long in curing. 
XIII. The lnfufion or Decathlon in Water or 
Wine. Thefe have the Virtues of the Juice and 
Effence, hut nothing near fo powerful, and there- 
fore may be taken Morning and Night, from 
4 to 6 Ounces, fweetned with a little of the 
Syrup. 
XIV. T be Syrup or Lohoch . Thefe are made 
of the Juice, the firft of them with fine Sugary 
the latter with Clarified Honey. They have all the 
Virtues of the Liquid. Juice and Effence , befides 
which, they are excellent againft Coughs, Colds, 
Hoarfnels, Wheezings, fhortnefs of Breath, diffi- 
culty of Breathing, Excoriations and Ulcers of the 
Lungs, fpitting of Blood, Etc. Dofe from an 
Ounce to two Ounces, every Morning Faffing, an 
Hour before Dinner, and laft at night going 
to Bed. 
XV. The Louder of Herb or Seed. Drunk in 
Water in which red hot Iron has been quenched, it 
If ops Fluxes of the Bowels : and any old Sore or 
running Ulcer waffied therewith, it cleanfes, drys 
and heals it in a fhort time : fo alfo the dry Pouder 
beftrewed upon the fame pretty thick every time it 
is dreft. 
XVI. The Ointment or Balfam. They cleanfe 
running Sores and old putrid Ulcers, it incarnates, 
drys, and heals the fame: and are of efpecial ufe 
for Green Wounds in any part of the Body : Ap- 
plyed to the Gout it eafes the Pain in a fhort time, 
and fo ftrengthens the parts affiiffed, as to prevent 
a new flux of Humors to the fame. 
XVII. The Cataplafm. The Flowers and Leaves 
Itamped and laid upon Wounds and Ulcers, cure 
them ; but it is much more efteftual being Itamped 
I. ' C H E Names. This Plant was not known to 
A. the Ancient Greek or Latine Writer^, tho 1 
fome would have it to be the Ceratia Plinij: fome 
to be Tragium fecundum Diofcoridis , which growing 
on the Mountains, has the Leaf of Scolopendrium , 
or Spleen-wort , but I think erroneoufly. All our 
Modern Authors call it Lunaria minor ( Mfoliis 
Lun£ , Crefentis modo falcatis: ) Grfner calls it 
Lunaria petnea & Taura: it is the Rut a Lunaria 
■del jecoraria Tabernamontani • and is called in 
Englijb , Moon- wort. 
II. The Kinds. Authors make feveral kinds of 
this Herb, as, Lunaria minor , the Lefler Moon- 
wort, of which in this Chapter ^ and it is thought 
by fome ro be Hemonitis altera , Selenitis -, be- 
caufe they make, Lunaria major , to be Hcmionitis , 
or, Mules Fern, in Chap. 342. Alfo, Viola Luna- 
ria, Bulbonack , or Sattin Flower, which fee in its 
order. 3. Lunaria minor ramofa Clufij , lmall 
Branched Moon-wort-, but this latter being totally 
a Stranger in England, and Native of Silejia , we 
fhall fay no more of it in this Place. 
T/;e Descriptions. 
III. The firft, or fmall Moo'n-vvort, has a /mail 
and Fibrous Root, from which Springs up ufually bu { 
but one dark , green, thick, and fat Leaf, ftandin ^ 
