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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![and stringy; perishing yearly, and usually riseth again on its own sowing. Place.'] It groweth wild in many places of England and Wales, as between Greenliithe and Gravesend. Government and Virtues.] It is hot and dry in the third de- gree, of a bitter taste, and somew hat sharp withal; it provokes lust to purpose; I suppose Venus owns it. It digesteth humours, provoketh urine and women’s courses, dissolveth w'ind, and be- ing taken in wine it easetli pain and griping in the bowels, and is good against the biting of serpents ; it is used to good effect in those medicines which are given to hinder the poisonous opera- tion of cantharides upon the passage of the urine: being mixed 'ith honey and applied to black and blue marks, coming of blows or bruises, it takes them away; and being drank or out- wardly applied, it abateth an high colour, and makes it pale; and the fumes thereof taken with rosin or raisins, cleanseth the mother. BISTORT, OR SNAKEWEED. It is called snakeweed, English serpentary, dragon-wort, oste- rick, and passions. Descript.] This hath a thick short knobbed root, blackish without, and somewhat reddish within, a little crooked or turned together, of a hard astringent taste, with divers black threads hanging there, from whence spring up every year divers leaves, standing upon long footstalks, being somewhat broad and long like a dock leaf, and a little pointed at the ends, but that it is of a blueish green colour on the upper side, and of an ash-co- lour grey, and a little purplish underneath, with divers veins therein, from among which rise up divers small and slender stalks, two feet high, and almost naked and without leaves, or with a very few', and narrow', bearing a spikey bush of pale coloured flowers, which being past, there abideth small seed, like unto sorrel seed, but greater. There are other sorts of bistort growing in this land, but smaller, both in height, root, and stalks, and especially in the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0052.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
