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 under the government of the Moon; in quality cold and moist like unto her. It softeneth and looseneth the body of man being eaten, and fortifieth the expul- sive faculty in him. The herb, whether it be bruised and ap- plied to the throat, or boiled, and in like manner applied, it matters not much, it is excellent good for swellings in the throat; the best way I suppose, is to boil it, and having drunk the de- coction inwardly, apply the herb outwardly: The decoction of it besides, is an excellent remedy for the yellow jaundice. ARRACH, WILD AND STINKING. Called also vulvaria, from that part of the body, upon which the operation is most; also dog’s arrach, goat’s arrach, and stinking motherwort. Descript.} This hath small and almost round leaves, yet a little pointed and without dent or cut, of a dusky mealy colour, growing on the slender stalks and branches that spread on the ground, with small flowers in clusters set with the leaves, and small seed succeeding like the rest perishing yearly, and rising again with its own sowing. It smells like rotten fish, or some- thing worse. Place.] It grows usually upon dunghills. Time.] They flower in June and July, and their seed is ripe quickly after. Government and Virtues.] Stinking arrach is used as a reme- dy to help women pained, and almost strangled with the mother by smelling to it; but inwardly taken there is no better remedy under the moon for that disease. I would be large in commen- dation of this herb; were I but eloquent. It is an herb under the dominion of Venus, and under the sign Scorpio; it is com- mon almost upon every dunghill. The works of God are given freely to man, his medicines are common and cheap, and easy to be found. (’Tis the medicines*of the College of Physicians that are so dear and scarce to find.) I commend it for an uni- versal medicine for the womb, and such a medicine as will easily.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
