The English physician enlarged : with three hundred and sixty nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this, being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / by Nich. Culpepper.
- Nicholas Culpeper
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The English physician enlarged : with three hundred and sixty nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this, being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation ... / by Nich. Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![other in juice, conferve, oil, ointment or plainer, electuary, pills or.troches. Agrimony. Defcript.] fl ''HIS hath divers long leaves (fome greater, JL fome fmaller) fet upon-a fialk, all of them dented about the edge?, green above, and greyilh under- neath, and a little hairy withal. Among which arifeth up ufually but one Arong, round, hairy, brown Aalk. twoor rhree feet high, with fmaller leaves fet here and there upon it. At the top hereof grow many fmall yellow flower?, one above an- other, in long (pikes: after which come rough head? of feed, hanging downwards, which wiL cleave to and flick upon gar- ments, or any thing that flialbtfob againfl them. The knot is black, long, and fomewhat woody, abiding many years, and Ihocffng afrtfh every Spring; which root, though fmall, hath a reafonable good feenr. - ‘Vce ] It groweth upon banks, near the Gdes of hedges. ‘Tone ] It floweieth in July and Augull, the feed being ripe fh-.nly after. Government and l^irtues.'] Iris an herb under Jupiter, and the Ggn Cancer ; and ltrengthens thofe parts under the planet andGgn. and removes dilcaft- in them by fympathy.and thole under Saturn Mars and Mercury by antipathy, if they hap- pen in any part of the body governed by Jupiter, or under the figns Cancer, Sagittary, or Pifces, and theiefore mud needs be good for the gout, either ufed outwardly in oil or o'ntment, or inwardly in an electuary, or fyrup, or concerted juice; for which fee the latter end of this book. It is of a cleanGng and cutting facuhv, without any rna- nifeil heat, moderately drying and binding- It epeneth and cleanfeth the liver, helpeth the jaundice, and is very bene- ficial to the bowel?, healing all inward wounds, bridles, hurts, and other diflempers. The dececlion of the herb made with wine, and drank, is good againfl the “biting and flinging of ferpent?, and helps them that make foul, troubled or bloody water, and makes them pifs clear fpeedily. It alfo helpeth the colic, cleanfeth the bread, and rids away the cough. A draught of tire decofUon taken warm before the fit, firft removes, and in time rids away the tertian or quartan a- gucs. The leaves and-feeds taken in wine flays the bloody ; outwardly applied, being damped with old twines greafe,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
