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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![grcafe, it helpeth old fores, cancers} and inveterate u7cersi> and draweth forth thorns and lplinters of wood, nails, or any other fuch things gotten into the flefh. It helpeth to flrengthen the rnembers that be out of joint} and being bruifed and applied, or the juice dropped in it, helpeth foul ' and impoflhumed,ea>\s. The diflilled water of the herb is good to all the faid pur- pofes, either inward or outward, but a great deal weaker. It is a moll admirable remedy for fuch whofe lives are an- noyed either by heat or cold. The liver is the former of blood, and blood the nourifher of the body, and Agrimony a flrengthener of the liver. 1 cannot Hand to give yon a reafon in every herb, why it eureth fuch difeafes; but if you pleafe to perufe my judgment in the herb Wormwood, you fhall find them there, and it will be well worth your while to confider it in every herb, you Iball find them true throughout the book. Water Agrimony. IT is called in forae countries Water Hemp, Ballard Hemp, and Batlard Agrimony, Eupatoriutn, and Hepatorium, becaulc it fl engthens the liver. Dcj'cript.] The root continues a long time, having many long Bender Brings, The Balk grows up about two feet high, lometimes higher. The}* are of a dark purple colour. The brandies are many, growing at diflanees the one from the other, the one from the one fide of the Balk, the other from the oppofite point. Tiie leaves are winged, and much indented at the edges. The flowers grow at the top of the branches, of a brown yellow colour, fpotted with black fpots, having a fubftaiiee within the midfl of them like that of a Daif) : It you rub them between your fingers, they fmell like roGn or cedar when it is burnt. The feeds are long, and cafily flick to any woollen thing they touch. Place.] They delight not in heat, and therefore they are not fo frequently found in the fouthern parts of England, as in the northern, where they grow frequently : You may look for them in cold grounds, by ponds and Pitches (ides, as alfo by running waters; fometimes you (hall find thpm grow in themidil oi the waters. Pane ] They all flower in July or Augufl, and the feed is ripe preicntly after.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
