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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f these there are two sorts commonly known, viz. white and red. The white hath leaves somewhat like unto beets, but smaller, rounder, and of a whitish green colour, every one standing upon a small long footstalk; the stalk riseth up two or three feet high, with such like leaves thereon; the flow- ers grow at the top in long round tufts or clusters, wherein are contained small and round seed; the root is very full of threads or strings. The red blite is in all things like the white, but that its leaves and tufted heads are exceeding red at first, and after turn more purplish. There are other kinds of blites which grow different from the two former sorts but little, but only the wild are smaller in eve- ry part. Place.] They grow in gardens, and wild in many places in this land. Time.] They seed in August and September. Government and Virtues.] They are all of them cooling, dry- ing and binding, serving to restrain the fluxes of blood in either man or woman, especially the red ; which also stayeth the over- flowing of woman’s reds, as the white blites stayeth the whites in woman; it is an excellent secret; you cannot well fail in tire use; they are all under the dominion of Venus. There is another sort of wild blites like the other wild kinds, but have long and spikey heads of greenish seeds seeming by the thick setting together to be all seed.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0056.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
