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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$the pains in the back, loins, and kidneys. The distilled •water when the herb is in flower, or its chief strength, ap- plied inwardly or outwardly, is good for the same purposes. WAKE EOBIN (GOLDEN.)—(^rwwi Maculatum.) Descrip.—This neglected plant has a roundish tuberous root, brown on the outside, white within, placed at no con- siderable depth,and furnished with a few fibres. The leaves, ■which are marked with beautiful gold-coloui-ed veins, rise alternately across the stock ; they are oblong, smooth at the edges, pointed at the ends, and of a fine fresh green, and often some spots of white are visible on them. The stem is round, thick, and ten inches or a foot high. On its top stands a single flower, of a fine yellow, which is after- wards succeeded by fine bright red berries. Place.—It is found under hedges, and in moist meadows. Time.—It flowers in May. Ooveniment and Virtues.—It is under the dominion of the Sun. The root is a powerful antiscorbutic, and by the activity of its subtle parts, it cuts all viscidities, and is of service in humoui-ous asthmas, in which case it should be bruised and gently boiled in a closed vessel, in half white- wine, and half water, and sweetened with honey of roses. The root bruised and mixed with cows' dung, and applied warm in a fit of gout and rheumatic pains will ease them. The root beat up with vinegar and laid upon a bruised part will dissipate stagnant blood, and prevent blackness of the skin. WALL-ELOWEE {COMMO']^.)—{Cheiranthus CheiH.) Descrip.—The root is divided into a number of strag- gling pai'ts, each furnished with numerous fibres. The stalk is round, firm, upright, hard, and very much branch- ed. The leaves are long, narrow, and of a fresh green ; They have no footstalk, they adhere by the base, and are undivided at the edges. Theflowers grow in spikes at the top of the stalks and branches, and are large, yellow, and . sweet scented. The pods are long, slender and whitish ; the seeds are flatted and small. Place.—It is common on old walls, and in some places on rocks ; and has thence, for its beauty and fragrance, been introduced into gardens, where the flower, and indeed the whole plant, grow much larger than in the wild state. Time.—It flowers in May and June.$