Volume 1

Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon.

Nicholas Culpeper

Date:: [1802]

Credit: Culpeper's Complete English physician enlarged and improved, or, An universal medical herbal, and botanical and astrological practice of physic ... : in three parts ... / By Nicholas Culpeper ; with valuable additions and improvements, by Geo. Alex. Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$fcales 3, the flowers are. alfo, of the thiftie Kind, and the feeds are, like the thiftles, winged with down.. Piace.—~Lhey are produced by, the care of the gar- dqhehrs. vsdi mi’ ‘Timp.—They are ripe in June, and. will flower at the lajter end of September, if they are fuffered to ftand. GovERNMENT AND VirtTuES,—They are under the dominion of Venus, and therefore it is not wonderful if they excite luft,,. The beft. are thofe that are young. and render, for when their flowers are out, they are not fo pleafant, and very unwholefome whem they begin to fhed. ‘They fhould. not be eaten raw 5, but boiled with . butter, pepper, and falt, they are reckoned a dainty difh, and re- ftorative, diureticand cleanfing ; and yet they ftay the in- voluntary courfe of natural feed, which, is commonly called noGurnal pollution. A decoction of the leaves in white - wine poffet, isan extraordinary medicine for the jaundice. ‘The -roots, bruifed and boiled, with fugar-candy, or the ftalks candied, are good for the lungs, ; Jerufalem Artichokes are a root, eaten boiled with but- ter, pepper, falt, and vinegar, either by itfelf, or with meat; but is not of fo pleafant a tafte, nor does it pofieis any good quality to recommend it.to the table, or to me- dica] purpofes, | | ARUM. See the Article CucKxow Pornr. _. JASARABACCA... Asarum. Description:—A very Jittle and low plant. The roots creep near the furface of the ground, from whence -ftalk, which are rounder and bigger than violet leaves, thicker alfo, and of a dark green fhining colour on the upper fide, and of 2 pale yellow green underneath, little or nothing dented about. the. edges, from, among which. rife fmall, round, hollow, brown green hufks, upon {hort ftalks, about an inch long, divided at the brims into five divifions, very like the cups or heads of the henbane feed, but that they are fmaller:. and thefe are all the flowers it carries, which are fomewhat»fweet, being {melled to, and wherein, when they are ripe, are contained {mall cornered. rough feeds very like the kernels or ftones of grapes: or i £2 “vers$