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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![runneth not deep into the ground, but spreads rather under the upper crust of the earth. Place.] This tree or shrub may be found plentifully in St. John’s wood by Hornsey, and the woods upon Hamstead heath; as also a wood called the Old Park in Barcomb in Essex, near the brooks’ sides. Time.] It flowereth in May, and the berries are ripe in September. Government and Virtues.] It is a tree of Venus, and perhaps under the celestial sign Cancer. The inner yellow bark hereof purgeth downwards both choler and phlegm, and the watery hu- mours of such that have the dropsy, and strengthens the inward parts again by binding. If the bark hereof be boiled with agri- mony, wormwood, dodder, hops and some fennel, with smallage, endive, and succory-roots, and a reasonable draught taken every morning for some time together, it is very effectual against the jaundice, dropsy, and the evil disposition of the body, especially if some suitable purging medicines have been taken before, to avoid the grosser excrements; It purgeth and strengthened the liver and spleen, cleansing them from such evil humours and hardness as they are afflicted with. It is to be understood that these things are performed by the dried bark; for the fresh green bark taken inwardly provokes strong vomitings, pains in the stomach, and gripings in the belly; yet if the decoction may stand and settle two or three days, until the yellow colour be changed black, it will not work so strongly as before, but will strengthen the stomach, and procure an appetite to meat. The outward bark contrariwise doth bind the body, and is helpful for all lasks and fluxes thereof, but this also must be dried first, whereby it will work the better. The inner bark thereof boiled in vinegar is an approved remedy to kill lice, to cure the itch, and take away scabs, by drying them up in a short time. It is singularly good to wash the teeth, to take away the pains, to fasten those that are loose, to cleanse them, and keep them sound. The leaves are good fodder for kine, to make them give more milk.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
