The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cramp, and convulsions, provokes urine, and helps all joint aches. It helps all cold griefs of the head, the vertigo, falling sickness, the lethargy, the wind cholic, obstructions of the liver and spleen, and stone in the kidneys and bladder. It provokes the terms, expels the dead birth: It is excellent good for the griefs of the sinews, itch, stone, and tooth-ach, the biting of mad dogs and venomous beasts, and purgeth choler very gently. ALKANET. Besides the common name, it is called orchanpt, and Spa- nish bugloss, and by apothecaries, enchusa. Descript.] Of the many sorts of this herb there is but one known to grow commonly in this nation; of which one take this description; it hath a great and thick root, of a reddish colour, long, narrow, hairy leaves, green like the leaves of buglos3, which lie very thick upon the ground; the stalks rise up com- passed round about, thick with leaves, which are lesser and nar- rower than the former; they are tender, and slender, the flowers are hollow, small, and of a reddish colour. Place.] It grows near Rochester in Kent, and in many places in the west country, both in Devonshire and Cornwall. Time.] They flower in July, and the beginning of August, and the seed is ripe soon after, but the root is in its prime, as carrots and parsnips are, before the herb runs up to stalk. Government and Virtues.] It is an herb under the dominion of Venus, and indeed one of her darlings, though somewhat hard to come by. It helps old ulcers, hot inflammations, burnings by common fire, and St. Anthony’s fire, by antipathy to Mars; for these uses, your best way is to make it into an ointment; also, if you make a vinegar of it, as yon make vinegar of roses, it helps the morphew and leprosy; it you apply the herb to the privities, it draws forth the dead child. It helps the yellow jaun- dice, spleen and gravel in the kidneys. Dioscorides saith, it helps such as are bitten by a venomous beast, whether it be taken](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
