Culpeper's complete herbal : consisting of a comprehensive description of nearly all British and foreign herbs; with their medicinal properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them.

Nicholas Culpeper

Date:: [1900?]

Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal : consisting of a comprehensive description of nearly all British and foreign herbs; with their medicinal properties and directions for compounding the medicines extracted from them. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$in Carduus water or Angelica water. The stalks or roots candied and eaten fasting, are good preservatives in time of infection ; and at other times to warm and co>nfort a cold stomach: the root also steeped in vinegar, and a little of that vinegar taken sometimes fasting, and the root smelled unto is good for the same purpose: a water dis- tilled from the root simply, as steeped in wine and dis- tilled in a glass, is much more effectual than the water of the leaves f and this water drank two or three spoonfu s at a time, easeth all pains and torments connng of cold and wind, so that the body be not bound ; and taken with some of the root in powder at the beg.nning, helpeth the Dleurisv as also all other diseases of the lungs and breast, HB coughs, phthisic, and shortness of breath ; and a syrup of theWlks doth the like. It helps pains of the cholic, the strangury and stoppage of the urine, procureth wo- '^ent ou^^^^^^^ and exielleth the after birth ; openeth the stoppage of the liver and spleen, and bnefly ease h and discusseth all wiudiness and inward swellings de coction drank before the fit of an ague, that they may sweX if possible, before the fit comes will, /wo or Uiree times taking, rid it quite away ; it l^elps d.ges^t^u and is a remedy for a surfeit. The ]uice, or the water being dropped into the eyes or ears helps dimness of sight and deafness: the juice put into the f ^ easeth their pain. The root m powder, made up into plaister with a little pitch, and laid on ^^e biting of W dot^s or any other venomous creature, doth wondertuliy help. The^juice or the water dropped, or tents wet there- in and put into filthy dead ulcers, or the powder of the root in want of either, doth cleanse and cause them to heal Quickly by covering the naked bones with flesh . tlie SLtilled water Applied to places pained with the gout, or sciatica doth give a great deal of ease. The Wild AgeMci {Anffelica S^/lvestris,) may be safely used to all the purposes aforesaid. ANEMONE.—(^«emone Nemorosa.) CALLED also Wind-flower, because ^^J^^^*/?^^?^^^; never open but when the wind bloweth. Pliny is my authorTif it be not so, blame him The seed also, if it hears any at all, flies away with the wind. Prannkrime.-Theylre sown usually in the gar- dens of tie curious, and flower in the spring-time. As for$