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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![Government and Virtues.] It is a plant of Jupiter, as well as the other agrimony, only this belongs to the celestial sign Can- cer. It healeth and drieth, cutteth and cleanseth thick and tough humours of the breast, and for this I bold it inferior to but few herbs that grow. It helps the cachexia or evil disposition of the body, the dropsy and yellow jaundice. It opens obstructions of the liver, mollifies the hardness of the spleen, being applied out- wardly. It breaks imposthumes taken inwardly: It is an excel- lent remedy for the third day ague. It provokes urine and the terms; it kills worms, and cleanseth the body of sharp humours, which are the cause of itch and scabs; the herb being burnt, the smoke thereof drives away flies, wasps, &c. It strengthens the lungs exceedingly. Country people give it to the cattle when they are troubled with the cough, or broken winded. ALEHOOF, OR GROUND-IVY. Several counties give it several names, so that there rs scarce an herb growing of that bigness that has got so many: It is called cats-foot, ground-ivy, gill-go-by-ground, and gill-creep- by-ground, turnhoof, liay-maids, and alehoof. Descript.] This well known herb lieth, spreadeth, and creep- eth upon the ground, shooteth forth roots, at the corners of ten- der jointed stalks, set with two round leaves at every joint some- what hairy, crumpled, and unevenly dented about the edges with round dents; at the joints likewise, with the leaves towards the ends of the branches, come forth hollow, long flowers, of a blueish purple colour, with small white spots upon the lips that hang down. The root is small with strings. Place.] It is commonly found under hedges, and on the sides of ditches, under houses, or in shadowed lanes, and other waste grounds, in almost every part of this land. Time.] They flower somewhat early, and abide a great while; the leaves continue green until winter, and sometimes abide, except the winter be very sharp and cold.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
