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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![helpeth to clarify the blood, and mitigate heat in fevers. The juice made into a syrup prevaileth much to all the purposes aforesaid, and is put with other cooling, opening and cleansing herbs to open obstructions and help the yellow jaundice, and mixed with fumitory, to cool, cleanse, and temper the blood thereby ; it helpeth the itch, ring-worms and tetters, or other spreading scabs or sores. The flowers candied or made into a conserve, are helpful in the former cases, but are cheifly used as a cordial, and are good for those that are weak in long sickness, and to comfort the heart and spirits of those that are in a con- sumption or troubled with often swoonings, or passions of the heart. The distilled water is no less effectual to all the purposes aforesaid, and helpeth the redness and inflamations of the eyes being washed therewith; the herb dried is never used, but the green; yet the ashes thereof boiled in mead, or honeyed water, is available against the inflammations and ulcers in the mouth or throat to gargle it therewith; the roots of bugloss are effectual, being made into a licking electuary for the cough, and to con- densate thick phlem, and the rheumatic distillations upon the lungs. BLUE-BOTTLE. T T is called Cyanus, I suppose from the colour of it: Hurt- sickle, because it turns the edge of the sickles that reap the corn; Blue-blow, corn-flower, and blue-bottle. Descript.] I shall only describe that which is commonest and in my opinion most useful; its leaves spread upon the ground, being of a whitish green colour, somewhat on the edges like those of corn scabious, amongst which ariseth up a stalk divided into divers branches, beset with long leaves of a greenish colour, either but very little indented, or not at all; the flowers are of a blue colour, whence it took its name, consisting of an innumer- able company of small flowers set in a scaly head not much un- like those of knap-weed ; the seed is smooth, is bright, and shin- ing, wrapped up in a wooly mantle; the root perisheth every year.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
