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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![ALEXANDER. It is called alisander, horse-parsley, and wild-parsley, and the black pot-herb; the seed of it is that which is usually sold in apothecaries' shops for Macedonian parsley-seed. Descript.] It is usually sown in all the gardens in Europe, and so well kuown, that it needs no farther description. Time.] It flowereth iu June and July; the seed is ripe in August. Government and Virtues.'] It is an herb of Jupiter, and there- fore friendly to nature, for it warmeth a cold stomach, and open- eth a stoppage of the liver and spleen; it is good to move wo- men’s courses, to expel the after-birth to break wind, to provoke urine and helpeth strangury; and these things the seeds will do likewise. If either of them be boiled in wine, or being bruised and taken in wine, is also effectual against the biting of serpents. And you know what alexander pottage is good for, that you may no longer eat it out of ignorance, but out of knowledge. THE BLACK ALDER-TREE. Descript.] JThIS tree seldom groweth to any great bigness, but for the most part abideth like a hedge-bush, or a tree spread- ing its branches, the woods of the body being white, and a dark red core, or heart; the outward bark is of a blackish colour, with many whitish spots therein; but the inner bark next the wood is yellow, which being chewed, will turn the spittle near into a saifron colour. The leaves are somewhat like those of an ordi- nary alder-tree, or the female cornet, or dogberry-tree, called in Sussex dog-wood, but blacker, and not so long. The flowers are white, coming forth with the leaves at the joints, which turn in- to small round berries, first green, afterwards red, but blackish when they are thorough ripe, divided, as it were, into two parts, wherein is contained two small round and flat seeds. The root](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
