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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![leaves. The root blackish without, and somewhat whitish with- in; of an austere binding taste, as the former. Placed] They grow in shadowy moist woods, and at the foot of hills, but are chiefly nourished up in gardens. The narrow- leaved bistort groweth in the north, in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cumberland. Time.] They flower about the end of May, and the seed is ripe about the beginning of July. Government and Virtues.] It belongs to Saturn, and is in operation cold and dry; both the leaves and roots have a power- ful faculty to resist all poison. The root in powder taken in drink expelleth the venom of the plague, the small pox, measles, purples, or any other infectious disease, driving it out by sweat- ing. The root in powder, the decoction thereof in wine being drank stayeth all manner of inward bleeding, or spitting of blood, and any fluxes in the body of either man or woman, or vomiting. It is also very availing against ruptures, or burstings, or all bruises of falls, dissolving the congealed blood, and easing the pains that happen thereupon; it also helpeth the jaundice. The water distilled from both leaves and roots, is a singular remedy to wash any place bitten or stung by any venomous crea- ture ; as also for any of the purposes before spoken of, and is very good to wash any running sores or ulcer. The decoction of the root in w ine being drank, hindereth abortion or miscar- riage in child-bearing. The leaves also kill the worms in chil- dren, and is a great help to them that cannot keep their water; if the juice of plantain be added thereto, and outwardly applied much helpeth the gonorrhea, or running of the reins. A dram of the pow der of the root taken in water thereof, w herein some red hot iron or steel hath been quenched, is also an admirable help thereto, so as the body be first prepared and pnrged from the offensive humours. The leaves, seed, or roots are all very good in decoctions, drinks, or lotions, for inward or outward wounds, or other sores. And the powders strewed upon any cut or wound in a vein, stayeth the immoderate bleeding thereof. The decoction of the root in water, whereunto some pomegran-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0053.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
