Lib. 2. Of the Hiftory of Plants, 
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5 [ The Temperature. 
All the Colewoorts haue a dryingand binding facultie,with a certaine nitrous or fait quality 
whereby they mightily cleanfe, either in the iuice, or in the broth . The whole fubftance 
or body of the Colewoort is ofa binding and drying faculty, becaufe it leaucth in the dccoftion 
this fait quality; which lic-th in the iuyee and watry part thereofthe waterwherein it is firft boy- 
led, draweth to it felfe all the quality ; for which caufe the dccodfion thereof loofeth the belly 
as doth alfo the iuyee of it, if it be drunke : but if the fir if broth in which it was boy led be caff 
away, then doth the Colewoort dry and binde the belly. But it yeeldeth to the body iinall nou- 
tifhment, and doth not ingender good, but a grofle and Melancholicke blond. The white Cab- 
bage is belt next vnto the Cole-florey ; yet Cato doth chiefly commend the ruflet Cole : but he 
kneiv neither the white ones, nor the Cole-florey; for if he had, his ccnfure had beene othenvile* 
The Virtues . 
Btofcmdes teacheth, that the Colewoort being eaten is good for them that haue dim eyes A 
and that arc troubled vvifh the (baking palfic. ’ 
The fame author affirmeth, that if it be boiled and eaten with vineger, it is a remedie for thofe B 
that be troubled with the fpleene. 
It is reported that the raw Colewoort being eaten before meate, doth preferue a man from C 
drunkennefle : the reafon is yeelded, for that there is a naturall enmity betweene it and the vine 
which is fuch,as if it grow neere vnto it, forthwith the vine perifheth and withereth away : yea if 
wine be poured vnto it while it is in boyling,it will not be any more boiled, and the colour thereof 
quite altered, as Capus and Dionyfius Vticenjts doe write in their bookes of tillage : yet doth not 
Athen&m afcribe that vertue of drilling away drunkennefle to the leaues, but to the feeds of Cole- 
Moreoucr, the leaues of Colewoorts are good againff all inflammations, and hot fwellings- D 
being damped with barley and meale,and laid vpon them with falt.-and alfo to breake carbuncles! 
The iuyee of Colewoorts, as Diofcorides wrjteth, being taken with floure-deluce and niter,doth E 
make the belly foluble : aud being drunke with wine, it is a remedie againff the bitings of veno- 
mous beads. ° 
The fame being applyed with the powder of Fennugreeke, takethawaythe paineofthe aout p 
and alfo cureth old and foulevlcers. t> s r 
Being conueied into the noffhrils, it purgeth the head : being put vp with barley meale it brin r 
gethdownethefloures. ^ 
Pliny writeth, that the iuyee mixed with wine, and dropped into the cares, is a remedie againff H 
The feed, as Galen faith, driueth forth wormes, taketh away freckles of the face, fun-burning r 
and what thing foeuer that need to be gently fcoured or clenfed away. 
They fay that the broth wherein the herbe hath beene fodden is maruellous good for the fi- v 
newes and ioynts,and Iikewife for Cankers in the eies,claled in Greeke Carcinomata , which cannot 
be healed by any other nieanes, if they be vvafhed therewith. 
woort. 
Chap: 41. Of %afe-Qole. 
The D efeription. 
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