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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![ty, and the party presently laid to sweat, is held to be a sov- ereign remedy for those that are infected with the plague, and have a sore upon them, by expelling the poison, and defending the heart and spirits'from danger. It is also accounted a sin- gular good wound herb,, and therefore used with other herbs in making such balms as are necessary for curing of wounds, either green or old, and especially if the nerves be hurt. THE BRAMBLE, OR BLACKBERRY BUSH. It is so well known that it needeth no description. The vir- tues thereof are as followeth : Government and Virtues.] It is a plant of Venus in Aries, You shall have some directions at the latter end of the book for the gathering of all herbs and plants, &c. If any ask the reason why Venus is so prickly] Tell them it is because she is in the house of Mars. The buds, leaves, and branches, while they are green, are of a good use in the ulcers and putrid sores of the mouth and throat, and of the quiusev, and likewise to heal other fresh w ounds and sores; but the flowers and fruits unripe are very binding, and so profitable for the blody flux, lasks, and a fit remedy for spitting of blood. Either the decoctiou of the powder or of the root taken, is good to break or drive forth gravel and the stone in the reins and kidneys. The leaves and brambles, as well green as dry, are excellent good lotions for sores in the mouth or secret parts. The decoction of them, and of the dried branches, do much bind the belly, and are good for too much flow ing of women’s courses ; the berries of the flow ers are a powerful remedy against the poison of the most venomous serpents; as well drank as outw ardly applied, helpeth the sores of the fundament and the piles; the juice of the ber- ries mixed with the juice ofmulberries, do bind more effectually, and help all fretting and eating sores and ulcers whatsoever. The distilled water of the branches, leaves, and flowers, or of the fruit is very pleasant in taste, and very effectual in fevers and hot distempers ot the body, head, eyes, and other parts, G](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
