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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![stalk upwards ; for on the lower part of the stalk, there is nei- ther branches nor leaf. The flowers are hooded and gaping, being white in colour, and standing in brownish husks, with a long small undivided leaf under each leaf; they seldom seed in our country. Its roots are many, great and thick, blackish with- out and whitish within, full of a clammy sap; a piece of them if you see it in the garden, and defend it from the first winter cold, will grow and flourish. Place.] They are only nursed up in the gardens in England, where they will grow very well. Time.] It flowereth in June and July. Government and Virtues.] It is an excellent plant under the dominion of the Moon: I could wish such as are studious would labour to keep it in their gardens. The leaves being boil- ed and used in glisters, is excellent good to mollify the belly, and make the passage slippery. The decoction drank inwardly, is excellent and good for the bloody flux. The leaves being bruis- ed, or rather boiled, and applied like a poultice, are excellent good to unite broken bones and strengthen joints that have been put out. The decoction of either leaves or roots being drank and the decoction of leaves applied to the place, is excellent good for the king’s evil that is broken and runneth; for by the influence of the Moon, it reviveth the ends of the veins which are relaxed; there is scarce a better remedy to be applied to such places as are burnt with fire than this is, for it fetches out the fire and heals it without a scar. This is an excellent remedy for such as are busrten, being either taken inwardly, or applied to the place. In like manner used, it helps the cramp and the gout. It is excellent good in hectic fevers, and restores radical moisture to such as are in consumptions. BRIONY, OR WILD VINE. It is called wild, and wood vine, tamus, or ladies’ seal. The white is called white vine by some; and the black, black vine. Descript.] The common white briony groweth ramping upon](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
