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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![Government and Virtues.'] It is a plant ot Jupiter, as well as the other Agrimony, only this belongs to the cdcfiial fign Cancer. It healeth and drieth, cuttuh and cleanfeth thick and tough humours of the breaft, and for this 1 held it inferior to but few herbs that grow. It helps the cachexia or evil difpofition of the body, the drepfy and yellow jaundice. It opens obflrudiions of the liver, mollifies the hardnels of the fpleen, being applied outwardly. It breaks irnpeibumes, taken inwardly; It is an excellent remedy for the third day .ague. It provokes urine and the terms; it kill, worms, and cleanfeth the body of fhai p humour^, which are the caufe of itch and fcabs; the herb being burnt, the fun be thereof drives away flics, walp-. &c. It {Lengthens the lungs exceed- ingly. Country people give it to their cac.le when they are troubled with the cough, or broken winded. Alehoof, or Ground-ivy. SEVERAL ccuntie* give it feveral names, fo that there is fcarce an herb growing of that bignefs that 'has got fo many : It is called Cats-foot, Ground-ivy, Gill go-by- ground, and Gill ercep-by-ground, Turnhoof, Haym^ids, and Alehoof. ' ' - Defcript.] This well known herb lieth, fpreadeth,- and crecpech upon the ground, Ihootcth forth roots, at the cor- ners of tender jointed flalks, fet with two round leaves at every joint foinewhat hairy, crumpled, and unevenly cented about the edges with round dents; at the joints hkewile, with the leaves towards the end of the branches, come foith hollow, long flowers, of a blueilh purple colour, with final! white fpots upon the lips that bang down. The root is fmall with firings. Place.] It is commonly found under hedges, and on the Tides of ditches, under houfes, or in fliadowed lanes, and other walte grounds, in almofi every part of litis land. Tvne ] They flower fomewhat early, and abide a great while ; the leaves continue green until Winter, and fomc- times^bidc, except the Winter be very (harp and cold. Government and Virtues.] It is an hetb ot Venus, and . therefore lures the difeafes (he caufes by Tympathy, and thofe of Mars by antipathy ; you may ufually find it all the year long, except the year be extremely froily ; it is quick, fharp,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
