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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![^nggama—juiiz—BaaMg Place.] They grow in corn fields, amongst all sorts of corn (pease, beans, and tares excepted.) If you please to take them yp from thence and transplant them in your garden, especially towards the full of the moon, they will grow more double than they are, and many times change colour. Time.] They flow er from the beginning of May to the end of harvest. Government and Virtues.] As they are naturally cold, dry, and binding, so they are under the dominion of Saturn. The powder or dried leaves of the b4ie-bottle, or corn-flower, is given with good success to those that are bruised by a fall, or have broken a vein inwardly, and void much blood at the mouth; being taken in the water of plantain, horse tail, or the greater comfrey, it is a remedy against the poison of the scorpion, and resisteth all venoms and poison. The seed or leaves taken in wine, is very good against the plague, and all infectious diseases, and is very good in pestilential fevers. The juice put into fresh or green wounds, doth quickly solder up the lips of them toge- ther, and is very effectual to heal all ulcers and sores in the mouth. The juice dropped into the eyes takes away the heat and inflammation of them. The distilled water of this herb, hath the same properties, and may be used for the effects afore- said. BRANK URSINE. Beside the common name brank-ursine, it is also called bears-breech, and acanthus, though I think our English names to be more proper; For the Greek word acanthus, signifies any thistle whatsoever. Descript.] This thistle shooteth forth very many large, thick, and green smooth leaves upon the ground, with a very thick and juicy middle rib; the leaves are parted with sundry deep gashes on the edges; the leaves remain a long time before any stalk appears, afterwards a reasonable big stalk, three or four feet high, and bravely decked with flowers from the middle of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
