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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![inwardly, or applied to the wound; nay, he saith further, if any one that hath newly eaten it, doth but spit into the mouth of a serpent, the serpent instantly dies. It stays the flux of the belly, kills worms, helps the fits of the mother. Its decoction made in wine, and drank, strengthens the back, and easeth the pains thereof: It helps bruises and falls, and is as gallant a remedy to drive out the small pox and meazles as any is; an ointment made of it, is excellent for green wounds, pricks or thrusts. ADDER’S TONGUE, OR SERPENT’S TONGUE. Descript. ^ HIS herb hath but one leaf, which grows with the stalk a finger’s length above the ground, being flat and of a fresh green colour; broad like water plantain, but less, without , any rib in it; from the bottom of which leaf, on the inside, ris- eth up, (ordinarily) one, sometimes two or three slender stalks, the upper half whereof is somewhat bigger, and dented with small dents of a yellowish green colour, like the tongue of an adder serpent (only this is as useful as they are formidable.) The roots continue all the year. Place.J It grows in moist meadows, and such like places. Time.] It is to be found in May or April, for it quickly per- ishetli with little heat. Government and Virtues.] It is an herb under the dominion of the Moon and Cancer, and therefore if the weakness of the retentive faculty be caused by an evil influence of Saturn in any part of the body governed by the Moon, or under the domin- ion of Cancer, this herb cures it by sympathy: It cures these diseases after specified, in any part of the body under the in- fluence of Saturn, by antipathy. It is temperate in respect of heat, but dry in the second de- gree. The juice of the leaves drank with the distilled water of horse-tail, is a singular remedy for all manner of wounds in the breasts, bowels, or other parts of the body, and is given with good success unto those that are troubled with casting, vomiting, or bleeding at the mouth or nose, or otherwise downwards. The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
