Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper.

Nicholas Culpeper

Date:: 1814

Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal ... To which are ... annexed his English physician enlarged, and Key to [Galen's Method of] physic ... to which is also added ... receipts selected from the author's Last legacy / Nicholas Culpeper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Stalk, two feet high, and l^ettcr, with some i lands, and dry grounds in many places of leaves thereon to the top, where it branches | this land. forth much; g,nd on every branch stands a i Tmie.'] They flower in July, and their large bush of pale whitish flowers, consist- ’ seed is ripe quickly after, ing of four leaves a-piece: The root is j Government and virtues.^ It is an herb of somewhat great, shoots forth many branches | Mercury, and a strong one too, therefore under ground, keeping the leaves green all \ excellent good in all afflictions of the brain, the winter. \ The decoction of the herb beins drank, I . O' brings down women’s courses, and provokes urine. It is prolitable for those that are bursten, or troubled with convulsions or cramps, with shortness of breath, or choleric , torments and pains in their bellies or Time.'] They flower and seed about the \ stomach; it also helps the yellow-jaundice, time that other kinds do. | and stays vomiting, being taken in wine. Govermnent and virtuesP^ The Moon | Taken with salt and honey, it kills all claims the dominion of these also. The i manner of worms in the body. It helps broth, or first decoction of the Sea Colewort, j such as have the leprosy, either taken in- doth by the sharp, nitrous, and bitter qual- 1 Avardly, drinking whey after it, or the green ities therein, open the belly, and purge the ; herb outwardly applied. It hinders con- body ; it cleanses and digests most power- \ ception in women, but either burned or fully than the other kind ; The seed hereof i strewed in the chamber, it drives away bruised and drank kills worms. The leaves i venomous serpents. It takes away black or the juice of them applied to sores or | and blue marks in the face, and makes ulcers, cleanses and heals them, and dis- | black scars become well coloured, if the solves swellings, and takes away inflam- ^ green herb (not the dry) be boiled in wine, mations. \ and laid to the place, or the place washed I therewith. Being applied to the huckle- CALAMiNT, OR MOUNTAIN-MINT. 1 boiie, by coiitiiiuance of time, it spends the i humours, which cause the pain of the Descript.] Tins is a small herb, seldom J sciatica. The juice being dropped into rising above a foot high, with square hairy, \ the ears, kills the worms in them. The and woody stalks, and two small hoary \ leaves boiled in wine, and drank, provoke leaves set at a joint, about the highness of 1 sweat, and open obstructions of tlie liver majoram, or not much bigger, a little dented j and spleen. It helps them that have a ter- about the edges, and of a very fierce or \ tian ague (the body being first purged) by quick scent, as the whole herb is; The | taking away the cold fits. The decoction flowers stand at several spaces of the stalks, | hereof, with some sugar jiut thereto after- from the middle almost upwards, which are ; wards, is very profitable for those that be small and gaping like to those of the Mints, ; troubled with the over-flowing of the gall, of a pale bluish colour: After which follow J and that have an old cough, and that are small, round blackish seed. The rcxit is ■ scarce able to breathe by shortness of their small and Avoody, with divers small strings \ wind ; that have any cold distemper in their spreading Avithin the ground, and dies not, | boAvels, and are troubled Avith the hardness but abides many years. | of the spleen, for all Avhich purposes, both Place.] It grows on heaths, and up- | the poAvder, called Diacaluniinthes, and the$