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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![to the top; at the joints whereof come forth small yellowish flow- ers, which turn into round berries, green at first, and of an ex- cellent red colour when they are ripe, shewing like bead or co- ral, wherein are contained exceeding hard black seeds, the roots are dispersed from a spongeousdiead into many long, thick, and round strings, wherein is sucked much nourishment out of the ground, and increaseth plentifully thereby. ' PRICKLY ASPARAGUS, OR SPERAGE. Descript.] Xt groweth usually in gardens, and some of it grows wild in Appleton meadows in Gloucestershrre, where the poor people do gather the buds of young shoots, and sell them cheaper than our garden asparagus is sold at London. Time. They do for the most part flower, and bear their berries late in the year, or not at all, although they are housed in winter. Government and Virtues.] They are both under the do- minion of Jupiter. The young buds or branches boiled in or- dinary broth, make the belly soluble and open, and boiled in white wine, provoke urine, being stopped, and is good against tire strangury or difficulty of making water, it expelleth the gra- vel and stone out of the kidneys, and helpeth pains in the reins. And boiled in white wine or vinegar, it is prevalent for them that have their arteries loosened, or are troubled with the hip- gout or sciatica. The decoction of the roots boiled in wine and taken is good to clear the sight, and being held in the mouth ea- seth the tooth-ach; and being taken fasting several mornings to- gether, stirreth up bodily lust in man or woman (whatever some have written to the contrary.) The garden asparagus nourish- eth more than the wild, yet hath it the same effects in all the afore mentioned diseases : The decoction of the roots in white wine, and the back and belly bathed therewith, or kneeling or lying down in the same, or sitting therein as a bath hath been found effectual against pains of the reins and bladder, pains of the mother and cholic, and generally against all pains that hap- D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
