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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![having sundry hard leaves, like the box-tree leaves, green and round pointed, standing on the several branches, at the top whereof only, and not from the sides, as in the former, come forth divers round, recfclish, sappy berries, when they are ripe, of a sharp taste. The root runneth in the ground, as in the former, but the leaves of this abide all the winter. Place.] The first groweth in forests, on the heatjp, and such like barren places: the red grows in the north parts of this land, as Lancashire, Yorkshire, &c. Time.] They flower in March and April, and the fruit of the black is ripe in July and August. Government and Virtues.] They are under the dominion of Jupiter. It is a pity they are used no more in physic than they are. The black bilberries are good in hot agues and to cool the heat of the liver and stomach; they do somewhat bind the belly, and stay vomitings and loathings; the juice of the berries made in a syrup, or the pulp made into a conserve with sugar, is good for the purposes aforesaid, as also for an old cough, or an ulcer in the lungs, or other diseases therein. The red worts are more binding, and stop women’s courses, spitting of blood, or any other flux of blood or humours, being used as well outwardly a* inwardly. BIFOIL, OR TWABLADE. Descript.] This small herb, from a root somewhat sweet shooting downward many long strings, riseth up a round green stalk, bare or naked, next the ground for an inch, two or three to the middle thereof as it is in age or growth; as also from the middle upward to the flowers, having only two broad plantain- like leaves (but whiter) set at the middle of the stalk one against another, compasseth it round at the bottom of them. Place.] It is an usual inhabitant in woods, copses, and in many other places in this land. There is another sort groweth in wet grounds and marshes, which is somewhat different from the former. It is a smaller](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
