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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![White archangel hath divers square stalks, none standing straight upward, but bending downward, whereon stand two leaves at a joint, larger and more pointed than the other, dented about the edges, and greener also, more like unto nettle leaves, but not stinking, yet hairy. At the joints with the leaves stand larger and more open gaping white flowers, husks round about the stalks, but not with such a bush of leaves and flowers set in the top, as is on the other, wherein stand small roundish black seeds: the root is white, with many strings at it, not growing downward, but lying under the upper crust of the earth, and abideth many years increasing; this hath not so strong a scent as the former. Yellow archangel is like the white in the stalks and leaves; but that the stalks are more-straight and upright, and the joints with the leaves are farther asunder, having longer leaves than the former, and the flowers a little larger and more gaping, of a fair yellowish colour in most, in some paler. The roots are like the white, only they creep not-so much under the ground. Place.] They grow almost every where (except it be in the middle of the street) the yellow most usually in the wet grounds of w oods, and sometimes in the dryer, in divers counties of this nation. Time.] They flower from the beginning of the spring all the summer long. Virtues and Use.] The archangels are somewhat hot and drier than the stinging nettles, and used with better success for the stopping and hardness of the spleen than they, by using the de- coction of the herb in wine, and afterwards applying the herb hot into the region of the spleen as a plaister, or the decoction with spunges. Flowers of the white archangel are preserved or conserved to be used to stay the whites, and the flowers of the red to stay the reds in women. It makes the heart merry, drives away melancholy, quickens the spirits, is good against quartan agues, stauncheth bleeding at mouth and nose, if it be stamped and applied to the nape of the neck; the herb also bruised, and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
