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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![round heads of seed, hanging downwards, which will cleave to and stick upon garments, or any thing that shall rub against them. The knot is black, long and somewhat woody, abiding many years, and shooting afresh every spring; which root, tho’ small hath a reasonable good scent. Place.] It groweth upon banks, near the sides of hedges. Time.] It flowereth in July and August, the seed being ripe shortly after. Government and Virtues.] It is an herb under Jupiter, and the sign Cancer; and strengthens those parts under the 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 therefore must needs be good for the gout, either used outwardly in oil or ointment, or in- wardly in an electuary, or syrup, or concerved juice; for which see the latter end of this book. It is of a cleansing and cutting faculty, without any manifest heat, moderately drying and binding. It openeth and cleanseth the liver, helpeth the jaundice, and is very beneficial to the bow- els, healing all inward wounds, bruises, hurts, and other distem- pers. The decoction of the herb made with wine, and drank, is good against the biting and stinging of serpents, and helps them that make foul, troubled or bloody water, and makes them piss very clearly speedily. It also helpeth the cholic, cleanseth the breast, and rids away the cough. A draught of the decoction taken warm before the fit, first removes, and in time rids away the tertian or quartan agues. The leaves and seeds taken in wine, stays the bloody flux; outwardly applied, being stamped with old swine's grease, it helpeth old sores, cancers, and inve- terate ulcers, and draweth forth thorns and splinters of wood, nails, or any other such things gotten into the flesh. It helpeth to strengthen the members that be out of joint: and being bruised and applied, or the juice dropped in it helpeth foul and imposthumed ears.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0013.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
