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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![Place.] It groweth frequently in woods, and delighteth in shady places. Time.] AnditflowerethinJuly; after which the seed is quick- ly ripe, yet in its prime in May. Government and Virtues.] The herb is appropriated to the planet Jupiter, and the sign Aries, Antonins Musa, physician to the emperor Augustus Cajsar, wrote a peculiar book of the virtues of this herb; and among other virtues saith of it, that it preserveth the liver and bodies of men from the danger of epi- demical diseases, and from witchcrafts also; it helpeth those that loath and cannot digest their meat, those that have weak stomachs and sour belchings, or continual rising in their stomach, using it familiarly either green or dry; either the herb, or root, or the flowers, in broth, drink, or meat, or made into conserve, syrup, water, electuary, or powder, as every one may best frame themselves unto, or as the time and season requireth; taken any of the aforesaid ways, it helpeth the jaundice, falling sick- ness, the palsy, convulsions, or shrinking of the sinews' the gout and those that are inclined to dropsy, those that have continual pains in their heads, although it turn to phrensy. The powder mixed with pure honey, is no less available for all sorts of coughs or colds, wheesing, or shortness of breath, distillation of thin rheum upon the lungs, which causeth consumptions. The de- coction made with mead, and a little penny-royal, is good for those that are troubled with putrid agues, whether quotidian tertian, or quartan, and to draw down and evacuate the blood, and humours, that by falling into the eyes, do hinder the sight; the decoction thereof made in wine and taken, killeth the worms in the belly, openeth obstructions both of the spleen and liver; cureth stitches, and pains in the back and sides, the torments and griping pains in the bowels, and the wind colic; and mixed with honey, purgeth the belly, helpeth to bring down women’s cour- ses, and is of special use for those that are troubled with the fall- ing down of the mother, and pains thereof, and causeth an easy and speedy delivery of women in child-birth. It helpeth also to break and expel the stone, either in the bladder or kidneys. The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
