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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![scaldings with water. The same also, or the decoction of the herb and flower, is good to bathe the feet of travellers and lac- quies whose long running causeth weariness and stiffness in their sinews and joints. If the decoction be used warm, and the joints afterwards anointed with ointment, it helpeth the dry scab, and the itch in children; and the herb with the white flower is also very good for the sinews, arteries, and joints, to comfort and strengthen them after travel, cold, and pains. BEETS. Of beets there are two sorts, which are best known gene- rally, and whereof I shall principally treat at this time, viz. the white and red beets, and their virtues. Descript.] The common white beet hath many great leaves next the ground, somewhat large and of a whitish green colour. The stalk is great, strong, and ribbed, bearing great store of leaves upon it, almost to the very top of it; The flowers grow in very long tufts, small at the end, and turning down their heads, which are small, pale greenish, yellow buds, giving cor- nered prickly seed. The root is great, long, and hard, and when it hath given seed is of no use at all. The common red beet differeth not from the white, but only it is less, and the leaves and the roots are somewhat red; the leaves are differently red, some only with red stalks or veins; some of a fresh red, and others of a dark red. The root there- of is red, spungy, and not used to be eaten. Government and Virtues.] The government of these two sorts of beets are far different; the red beet being under Saturn, and the white under Jupiter; therefore take the virtues of them apart, each by itself; the white beet doth much loosen the belly, and is of a cleansing digesting quality, and provoketh urine. The juice of it openeth obstructions both of the liver and spleen, and is good for the head-ach and swimmings therein, and turnings of the brain ; and is effectual also against all venomous creatures; and applied unto the temples, stayeth inflammations in the eyes;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
