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ADDERS TONGUE.
Description.
This small Herb hath but one Leaf; which grows with the Stalk a fingers length above the ground, being fat, and of a fresh green colour, broad like the Water Plantane (but less) without any middle Rib in it: from the bottom of which Leaf on the inside, riseth up (ordinarily) one, somtimes two or three small slender stalks, the upper half wherof is somwhat bigger, and dented with smal round dents of a yellowish green colour, like the Tongue of an Adder or Serpent (only this is as useful as they are formidable) The Root continues all the year.
[EDGENOTE:] Wounds in the Breast, Bowels, Vomiting, Bleeding, Terms stops, Whites, Wounds, Ulcers, Inflamations in Wounds.
It is an Herb under the Dominion of the Moon in Cancer, and therfore if the weakness of the Rententive Faculty be caused by an evil influence of Saturn, in any part of the Body governed by the Moon, or under the Dominion of Cancer, this Herb cures it by Sympathy: It cures those Diseases before specified in any part of the Body under the influence of Saturn, by Antypathy.
What parts of the Body are under each Planet and Sign, and also what Diseases may be found in my Astrological Judgment of Diseases, and for the internal Work of Nature in the Body of Man, as Vital, Animal, Natural, and Procreative Spirit of Man, The Apprehension, Judgment, Memory, the external Sences, viz. Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Feelings; the Vertues, Attractive, Retentive, Digestive, Expulsive &c. under the Dominion of what Planets they are, may be found in my Ephemeris for the yeer 1651. in both which you shall find the Chaff of Authors blown away by the Fame of Dr Reason, and nothing but Rational Truths left for the Judgment of the Ingenious to feed upon.
Lastly, To avoid blotting Paper with one thing many times, and also to ease your Purses in the price of the Book, and withal to make you Studious in Physick, you have at the latter end of the Book, the way of preserving all Herbs either in Juyce, Conserve Oyl, Oyntment, or Plaister, Electuary Pill or Troches.
Description.
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grayish underneath, and a little hairy withal: Among which ariseth up usually, but one strong, round, hairy, brown Stalk, two or three Foot high, with smaller Leaves set here and there upon it, at the top wherof grow many smal yellow Flowers one above another in long Spikes: after which come rough heads of Seeds hanging downwards which wil cleave to and stick upon Garments or any thing that shal rub against them. The Root is black, long, and somwhat woody, abiding many yeers and shooting afresh every Spring which Root, though smal hath a reasonable good scent.
[EDGENOTE:] Clensing, Drying, Binding, Liver, Jaundice, Inward Wounds, Inward Bruises, Bloody and troubled urin, Chollick, Breast, Cough, Tertian and Quartan Agues, Bloody Flux, ulcers, Cancers, Thorns, Splinters and Nails in the flesh, Members out of joynt, Aposthumes.
The distilled Water of the Herb is good to all the said purposes, either inward or outward, but a great deal weaker.
It is an Herb under Jupiter, and the Sign of Cancer, and therfore strengthens those parts under that Planet and Sign, and removes Diseases in them by Sympathy, and those under Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, by Antipathy. If they happen in any part of the Body governed by Jupiter, or under the Signs, Cancer, Sagitary, or Pisces, and therfore must needs be good for the Gout, either used outwardly in an Oyl or Oyntment, or inwardly in an Electuary or Syrup, or concreated Juyce, for which see the latter end of the Book.
It is a most admirable remedy for such whose Livers are annoyed either by heat or cold. The Liver is the former of Blood, and Blood the Nourisher of the body, and Agrimony and Strengthner of the Liver.
I cannot stand to give you a Reason in every Herb why it cureth such Diseases, but if you please to peruse my Judgment in the Herb Wormwood you shall find them there, and it will be well worth your while to consider it in every Herb, you shall find them true throughout the Book.
Description.
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stayeth the spreading or eating of Cancers and Ulcers, It helpeth the Itch, Scabs, Wheals, and other breakings out in any part of the Body. The Juyce of Celondine, Field Daysies, and Ground-Ivy clarified, and a little fine Sugar dissolved therin and dropped into the Eyes is a Sovereign Remedy for all the Pains, Redness, and Watering of them; as also for the Pin and Web, Skins, and Films growing over the Sight; It helpeth Beasts as well as Men; The Juyce dropped into the Ears doth wonderfully help the noise and singing of them, and helpeth the Hearing which is decayed. It is good to Tun up with new Drink, for it will so clarifie it in a night, that it will be the fitter to be drunk the next morning; or if any Drink be thick with removing or any other accident, it will do the like in a few hours.
[EDGENOTE:] Inward Wounds, Pains Gripping, Wind, Choller, Stomach, Spleen, Belly, Stopping in the Liver, Gaul, Plague, Poyson, Gout, Sciatica, sore Mouth & Throat, Ulcers in the Privities, Itch, Scabs, Pain in the Eye Redness watering of them, Ulcers, noise in the Ears Deafness.
It is an Herb of Venus, and thefore cures her Diseases by Sympathy, and those of Mars by Antipathy; how to preserve it all the yeer you shall find at the latter end of the Book.
Description.
[EDGENOTE:] Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, provokes the Terms, Afterbirth, Wind, provokes urin, biting of Serpents.
Description.
[EDGENOTE:] Choller, Flegm.
If the Bark hereof be boyled with Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, Hops, and some Fennel, with Smalledg, Endive, and Succory Roots, and a reasonable draught taken every morning for some time together, it is very effectual against the Jaundice, Dropsie, and the evil disposition of the Body, especially if some sutable purging Medicine have been taken before to avoid the grosser excrements;
[EDGENOTE:] Jaundice, Dropsy, Cachexia, Liver, Spleen. It purgeth and strengtheneth the Liver and Spleen, clensing them from such evil humors, and hardness as they are afflicted with: It is to be understood that these things are performed by the dryed Bark, for the fresh green Bark taken inwardly provoketh strong Vomitings, pains in the Stomach, and gripings in the Belly: Yet if the Decoction may stand and settle two or three daies until the yellow colour be changed black, it will not work so strongly as before, but will strengthen the Stomach, and procure an Appetite to Meat.
[EDGENOTE:] Stomach weak, Apetite lost, Flux, Lice, Itch, Scabs, Tooth-ach, Teeth loos.
The outer Bark contrarywise doth bind the Body, and is helpful for all Lasks and Fluxes therof, but this must also be dried first, wherby it wil work the better. The inner Bark herof boyled in Vinegar, is an approved remedy to kill Lice, to cure the Itch, and take away Scabs by drying them up in a short time: It is singular good to wash the Teeth, to take away the Pains, to fasten those that are loos, to clens them, to keep them sound. The Leaves are good Fodder for Kine to make them give more Milk.
If in the Spring time you use the Herbs be-
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fore mentioned and will but take a handful of each of them, and to them ad a handful of Elder Buds, and having bruised them all, boyl them in a Gallon of ordinary Beer when 'tis new, and having boyled them half an hour, ad this to three Gallons more, and let them work together, and drink a draught of it every morning half a pint or there about: It is an excellent Purge for the Spring, to consume that Flegmatick quality the Winter hath left behind it, and withal keep your Body in health, and consume those evil humors which the heat of Summer will readily stir up, esteem it as a Jewel.
Description.
[EDGENOTE:] Cooling, Drying, Binding, Swellings, Fleas.
put under the bare Feet gauled with travelling are a great refreshing to them: The said Leaves gathered while the morning dew is on them, and brought into a chamber troubled with Fleas, wil gather them therinto, which being suddenly cast out wil rid the Chamber of those troublesom Bed-fellows.
It is a Tree under the Dominion of Venus, and of some watry Sign or other, I suppose Pisces, and therfore the Decoction, or distilled Water of the Leaves is excellent against Burnings, and Inflamation, either with Wounds or without, to bath the place grieved with, and especially for that inflamation in the Breast which the vulgar call an Ague.
[EDGENOTE:] Burnings, Inflamations.
If you cannot get the Leaves, as in Winter 'tis impossible, make use of the Bark in the same manner.
In times of Heathenism when men had found out any excellent Herb &c. they dedicated it to their gods, As the Bay-tree to Apollo, the Oak to Jupiter, the Vine to Bacchus, the Poplar to Hercules: These the Papists following as their Patriarchs, they dedicate them to their Saints, as our Ladies Thistle to the Blessed Virgin, St. Johns Wort to St. John, and another Wort to St. Peter, &c. Our Physitians must imitate like Apes, (though they cannot come off half so cleverly) for they Blasphemously call Pansies, or Hartseas, an Herb of the Trinity, because it is of three colours: and a certain Oyntment, an Oyntment of the Apostles, because it consisteth of twelve Ingredients; Alas poor Fools, I am sorry for their folly, and grieved at their Blasphemy; God send them the rest of their Age, for they have their share of Ignorance already; O! why must ours be Blasphemous becaus the Heathens and Papists were Idolatrous? certainly they have read so much in old rustie Authors, that they have lost all their Decmity, for unless it were amongst the ranters, I never read or heard of such Blasphemy: The Heathens and Papists were bad, and ours wors, the Papists giving Idolatrous Names to Herbs for their Vertues sake, not for their fair looks; and thefore some called this an Herb of the Holy Ghost, others more moderate called it Angelica, becaus of its Angelical Vertues, and that name it retains still, and all Nations follow it so near as their Dialect will permit.
[EDGENOTE:] Poyson, Pestilence, Epidemical Diseases.
alone in Cardus or Angelica Water. The Stalks or Roots candied and eaten fasting are good Preservatives in time of Infection; and at other times to warm and comfort a cold Stomach. The Root also steeped in Vinegar, and a little of that Vinegar taken somtimes fasting, and the Root smelled unto is good for the same purpose. A water distilled from the Root simply, or steeped in Wine and distilled in Glass, is much more effectual than the Water of the Leaves; and this Water drunk two or three spoonfuls at a time, easeth all Pains and Torments coming of Cold and Wind, so as the Body be not bound: and taken with some of the Root in Pouder at the beginning helpeth the Pluresy, as also all other Diseases of the Lungues and Breast, as Coughs, Phthisick, and shortness of Breath; and a Syrup of the
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Stalks doth the like: It helps pains of the Colick, the Strangury, and stopping of the Urin, procureth Womens Courses, and expelleth the After-birth, openeth the stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, and briefly easeth and discusseth al windiness and inward swellings. The Decoction drunk before the fit of an Ague, that they may sweat (if possible) before the fit come, wil in two or three times taking rid it quite away: It helps digestion,
[EDGENOTE:] Chollick, provokes the Terms, afterbirth, stoppings of the Liver and Spleen, Indigestion, Surfets, Toothach, biting of Mad-dogs.
and is a remedy for a Surfet. The Juyce or the Water being dropped into the Eyes or Ears, helps dimness of sight and deafness: The Juyce put into the hollow Teeth, easeth their pains. The Roots in Pouder made up into a Plaister with a little Pitch; and laid on the biting of a mad-Dog, or any other venemous creature, doth wonderfully help: The Juyce or the Water dropped, or tents wet therin, and put into old filthy deep Ulcers, Or the Pouder of the Root (in want of either) doth clens and cause them to heal quickly, by covering the naked Bones with Flesh. The distilled Water applied to places pained with the Gout or Sciatica, doth give a great deal of ease.
[EDGENOTE:] Ulcers, Gout, Sciatica.
The wild Angelica is not so effectual as the Garden, although it may be safly used to all the purpose aforesaid.
It is an Herb of the Sun in Leo; let it be gathered when he is there, the Moon applying to his good Aspect; let it be gathered either in his hour, or in the hour of Jupiter, let Sol be angular. Observe the like in gathering the Herbs of other Plants, and you may happen do wonders. In all Epidemical Diseases caused by Saturn this is as good a Preservative as grows.
Apples in general are cold and windy, and being of sundry tasts, Galen sheweth thereby how to distinguish them: Som have a sharp tast, and are good for fainting Stomachs and loos Bellies; others sowr, good to cool and quench thirst; som sharp, fit to cut gross flegm; som sweet, soon destributed in the Body, and as soon passed away, yet sooner corrupted in the Stomach if they be staid: The best sorts before they be throughly ripe are to be avoided; then to be roasted or scalded is the best
[EDGENOTE:] Fainting Stomach, Loos Bellies, Thirst, Flegm.
way to take them and a little Spice or Seeds cast upon them and taken after meat, do strengthen both Stomach and Bowels, especially in those that loath, or hardly digest their meat, or are given to casting, or have a Flux or Lask: Those that are a little sowr and harsh used in that manner are fittest: Sweet Apples loosen the Belly and drive forth Worms; Sowr Apples stop the Belly, and provoke Urin; and Crabs for this purpose are fittest: The sweet Apples as the Pippin and Pearmain, help to dissolve Melancholly humors, and to procure Mirth, and therfore are
[EDGENOTE:] Stomach, Bowels, Vomiting, Flux, Loosen Worms, Melancholly, Agues, heat of the Liver and Stomach.
fittest for Confectio Alkermes, and Syrupus de Pomis. The Leavs boyled and given to drink in hot Agues, where the heat of the Liver and Stomach causeth the Lips to break out, and the Throat to grow dry, harsh and furred, is very good to wash and gargle it withal, and to drink down som. This may to good purpose be used when better things are not at hand, or cannot be had. The Juyce of Crabs either Verjuyce or Cider, is of singular good use in the Heat and faintings of the Stomach, and against Casting to make a Posset with, or taken som of it alone by it self. The Juyce of Crabs, or Cider applied with wet cloaths therein to scalded or burnt places, cooleth, healeth, and draweth forth the Fire. A rotten Apple applied to Eyes bloodshotten, or enflamed with heat, or that are black and blue about them by any stroke of fall, and bound too all day or night, helpeth them quickly. The distilled Water
[EDGENOTE:] Scalding, Burning, Eyes, Inflamation, Ulcers, Spots, Freckles.
of rotten Apples doth cool the heat and inflamations of Sores, and is good to bath foul creeping Ulcers, and to wash the Face to take away Spots, Freckles or other discolorings. The distilled Water of good and sound Apples is of special good use to procure Mirth, and expel Melancholly. The ointment called Pomatum, if sweet and well made, helpeth the Chops in the Lips or Hands, and maketh smooth and supple the rough Skin of the Hands or Face parched with wind or other accidents.
[EDGENOTE:] Chaps in the Lips & Hands.
Thus my Authors.
All that I can say of Apples is this:
1 That they are extream windy.
2 That they provoke Urin, being roasted (especially
Pomwaters) and mixed with fair Water, and drunk up at
night going to bed; half a dozen great ones mixed with a
quart of Water, excellently provokes Urin, if there be no
material stone in the Body: This I had of Gerhard, and
have often known it proved, and alwaies with good success.
All Apples loosen the Belly and pleasure the Stomach by
their coolness.
Description.
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the Leaves, and small Seeds succeeding like the rest, perishing yearly, and rising again with its own sowing. It smels like old rotten Fish, or somthing worse.
[EDGENOTE:] Mother,
Herb under the dominion of Venus, and under the sign Scorpio: It is common almost upon every Dunghil. The Works of God are given freely to Man, his Medicins are common and cheap, and easie to be found: 'tis the Medicines of the Colledg of Physitians that are so dear and scarce to find) I commend it for an Universal Medicine for the Womb, and such a Medicine as will easily, safly, and speedily cure any Diseas therof, as the fits of the Mother, Dislocation or falling out therof; it cools the
[EDGENOTE:] Womb.
Womb being over-heated. (And let me tel you this, and I wil tel you but the truth, Heat of the womb is one of the greatest causes of hard labor in Childbirth) It makes barren women fruitful, it clenseth the Womb if it be foul and strengthens it exceedingly; it provokes the Terms if they be stopped, and stops them if they flow immoderately. You can desire no good to your Womb, but this Herb will effect it; therfore if you love Children, if you love Health, if you love Ease, keep a Syrup alwaies by you made of the juyce of this Herb and Sugar (or Honey if it be to clens the Womb) and let such as be rich keep it for their poor neighbors, and bestow it as freely as I bestow my studies upon them, or els let them look to answer it another day when the Lord shall come to make inquisition for Bloud.
White-Archangel hath diverse square stalks not standing streight upright but bending downward, wheron stand two Leavs at a Joynt, larger and more pointed than the other, dented about the edges and greener also more like unto Nettle-Leavs, but not stinking, yet hairy: At the Joynts with three Leavs stand larger and more open gaping white Flowers, in Husks round about the Stalks (but not with such a bush of Leavs, as Flowers set in the top, as in on the other) wherin stand smal roundish black Seeds: The Root is white, with many strings at it, not growing downward but lying under the upper crust of the Earth, and abideth many years encreasing: This hath not so strong a scent as the former.
Yellow-Archangel is like the White in the Stalks and Leavs, but that the Stalks are more streight and upright, and the Joynts with Leaves are further asunder, having longer Leavs than the former; and the Flowers a little larger and more gaping, of a fair yellow colour in most, in som paler. The Roots are like the White, only they creep not so much under the ground.
[EDGENOTE:] Spleen.
Archangel are preserved, or conserved to be used to stay the Whites and the Flowers of the Red to stay the Reds in Women. It makes the Heart merry, drives away Melancholly, quickens the Spirits, is good against Quartan Agues, stancheth bleedings at Mouth or Nose, if it be stamped and applied
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to the nape of the Neck: The Herb also brused
[EDGENOTE:] White, Red and yellow Flux. Melancholy, Quartan Agues, Bleeding at Nose, Swelling, Kings Evil, Gout, Sciatica, Joynts, Ulcers, Old sores, Bruises, Burnings.
and with some Salt and Vinegar, and Hogs Greas laid upon any hard tumor or swelling; or that which is vulgarly called the Kings Evil, doth help to dissolve or discuss them, and being in like manner applied doth much allay the pains and give eas to the Gout, Sciatica, and other aches of the Joynts and Sinews: It is also very effectual to heal all green Wounds, and old Ulcers, also to stay their fretting, gnawing, and spreading; It draweth forth Splinters and such like things gotten into the flesh, and is very good against bruises and burnings. But the yellow Archangel, is most commended for old filty corrupt Sores and Ulcers, yea, although they grow to be hollow; and to dissolve tumors. The chief use of them is for Women it being an Herb of Venus, and may be found in my Guide for Women.
Description of the Mild.
[EDGENOTE:] Ulcers, Cold swellings, Bruises, Congeled Blood, Toothach, Felons, or Andicoms, Worms in the Ears, Fleas, Tired Horses, Impostums Inflamations, Wounds.
Joynt that hath a Fellon theron, taketh it away. The Juyce destroyeth Worms in the Ears being dropped into them: if the hot Arsmart be strewed in a Chamber it will soon kill all the Fleas; and the Herb or Juyce of the cold Arsmart put to Horses or other Cattels sores will drive away the Flie in the hottest time of Summer: A good handful of the hot biting Arsmart put under a Horses Saddle will make him travel the better although he were half tired before: The mild Arsmart is good against hot Imposthumes and Inflamations at the beginning and to heal green Wounds.
All Authors chop the Vertues of both sort of Arsmart together, as men chop Herbs for the Pot, when both of them are of clean contrary qualities, The hot Arsmart groweth not so high or tall as the mild doth, but hath many leaves of the colour of Peach leaves, very seldom or never spotted, in other particulars it is like the former, but may easily be known from it, if you will be but pleased to break a Leaf of it cross your Tongue, for the hot will make your Tongue to smart, so will not the cold; if you see them both together you many easily distinguish them, becaus the mild hath far broader Leaves: And our Colledg of Physitians out of their learned care for the publick good, Anglice their own gain, mistake the one for the other in their New-Master-Piece, wherby they discover, 1. Their Ignorance, 2. Their Carelesness, and he that hath but half an eye may see their pride without a pair of Spectacles. I have done what I could to distinguish them in their Vertues, and when you find not the contrary named, use the cold. The truth is, I have not yet spoken with Dr. Reason, nor his Brother Dr. Experience, concerning either of them both.
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[EDGENOTE:] Causeth Vomiting, Choller, Flegm, Urin, Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, Dropsy, Jaundice, Agues.
by the plenty of stubborn humors: An Oyl made therof by setting it in the Sun, with some Laudanum added to it, provoketh sweating (the ridg of the Back being anointed therwith) and therby driveth away the shaking Fits of Agues. It will not abide any long boyling, for it loseth its chiefest strength therby; nor much beating; for the finer Pouder doth provoke Vomit and Urin, and the courser purgeth downwards.
The common Use herof is to take the Juyce of five or seven Leavs in a little Drink to caus Vomitings: The Roots have also the same Vertue, though they do not operate so forcibly, yet they are very effectual against the biting of Serpents, and therfore is put as an ingredient both
[EDGENOTE:] Serpents. Head. Memory.
into Methridate and Venice Treacle. The Leaves and Roots being boyled in Ly, and the Head often washed therwith, while it is warm, comforteth the Head and Brain that is ill affected by taking cold, and helpeth the Memory.
I shall desire Ignorant people to forbear the use of the Leavs, the Roots purge more gently, and may prove beneficial in such as have Cancers, or old putrified Ulcers, or Fistulaes upon their Bodies, to take a dram of them in Pouder in a quarter of a pint of white Wine in the morning. The truth is, I fancy Purging and Vomiting Medicines as little as any Man breathing doth, for they weaken Nature nor shall never advise them to be used unless upon urgent necessity. If a Physitian be Natures servant, it is his duty to strengthen his Mistris as much as he can, and weaken her as little as may be.
Description.
Description.
[EDGENOTE:] Belly, Strangury, Disury, Gout, Sciatica, Eyes, Tooth-ach.
the gravel and stone out of the Kidneys, and helpeth pains in the Reins: And boyled in white Wine or Vinegar it is prevalent for them that have their Arteries loosned, or are troubled with the Hip-Gout, or Sciatica. The Decoction of the Roots boyled in Wine and taken is good to cleer the sight, and being held in the Mouth easeth the Toothach: And being taken fasting several mornings together stirreth up bodily lust in Man or Wo-
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man (whatsoever some have written to the contrary.) The Garden Asparaus nourisheth more than the wild; yet hath it the same effects in al the aforementioned Diseases. The Decoction of the Roots in white Wine, and the Back and
[EDGENOTE:] Reins, Bladder, Mother, Cramp, Chollick, Convulsion.
Belly bathed therwith, or kneeling or lying down in the same, or sitting therin as a Bath, hath been found effectual against pains that happen to the lower parts of the Body; and no less effectual against stiff and benummed Sinews, or those that are shrunk by Cramps, and Convulsions, and helpeth the Sciatica.
[EDGENOTE:] Adders & Vipers biting, Dropsy, Stone, Jaundice, Leprosie, Scabs, Scald Heads, Stitches, Stone, Disury, Rickets.
The Decoction of the Leaves in white Wine, helpeth to break the Stone and expel it, and cureth the Jaundice. The Ashes of the Bark of the Ash made into Ly, and those Heads bathed therwith which are Leprous, Scabby, or Scal'd, they are therby cured. The Kernels within the Husks commonly called Ashen Keys, prevaileth against Stitches and pains in the sides proceeding of Wind, and avoideth away the stone by provoking Urin.
I can justly except against none of all this save only the first, viz. That Ash-tree Tops and Leaves are good against the biting of Serpents and Vipers, and I suppose this had its rise from Gerard, or Pliny, both which hold that there is such an Antipathy between an Adder and an Ash-tree, that if an Adder be compassed round with Ash-tree Leaves, she wil sooner run through the fire than through the Leaves, the contrary to which is the truth, as both my eyes are witnesses: the rest are Vertues somthing likely, only if it be in Winter when you cannot get the Leaves, you may safely use the Bark instead of them, the Keys you may easily keep all the year, gathering them when they are ripe.
Description.
[EDGENOTE:] Breast, Stitches, Wind, Belly, Stomach Inward Wounds, Heart, cold Brain, Obstructions, Chollick, Fluxes, Ruptures, Spots and Marks in the Face, Plague, Poyson, Indigestion.
strengtheneth the Stomach, and a cold Brain, and therfore is good in the Spring time to open Obstructions of the Liver, and helpeth the wind Chollick; it also helpeth those that have Fluxes; or are bursten, or have a Rupture; It taketh away spots or marks in the Face, being washed therwith: The Juyce of the fresh Root or Pouder of the dried Root hath the same effect with the De-
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coction. The Root in the Spring time steeped in Wine doth give it a delicat savor and tast, and being drunk fasting every morning comforteth the Heart, and is a good Preservative against the Plague, or any other Poyson; it helpeth Digestion, and warmeth a cold Stomach, and openeth the Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen,
It is very safe, you need have no Dose prescribed; and is very fit to be kept in every good bodies house.