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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![Government and Virtues.] It is an heib of Jupiter, and therefore friendly to nature, for it warmeth a cold flomach, and openeth a ftoppage to the liver and fpleen ; it is good to move womens eourfes, to expel the after-birth, to break wind, to provoke urine, and he!pelh the ftranguarv : and thefe thing the feeds will do likesvife. If either of them be boiled in w ine, or being bruifed and taken in wine, is alfo effectual again!! the biting of ferpents. And you know what Alex- ander Pottage is good for, that you may no longer eat it out of ignorance, but out of knowledge. The. Black Alder-tree. Defcript.]* | ''HIS tree leldom groweth to any great big- JL nets, but for the ntofl part abides h like a hedge-bull), or a tree Ipreading its branches, the woods of the body being white, and a dark red coal, or heart ; the outward bark h of a blackiflt colour, with many wliitifh fpots therein ; but the inner batk next the wood is yellow, which being chewed, will turn the fpittlc near unto a faffron co- lour. The leaves arc fomewhat like thof’e of an ordinary Alder-tree, or the Female Cornet, or Dogberry tree, called in SufTex Dog wood, but blacker, and not !o long. The flowers are white, coming forth with the leaves at the joints, which turn into fmall round berries, firft green, afterwards red, but blackifh when they are thorough ripe, divided, as it were, into two parts, wherein is contained two lmall round and flat feeds. The root runneth r.-ot deep into the ground, but fpreads rather under the upper cruft of the earth. Place.] This tree or fhrub may be found plentiful}- in St J hn’s wood by Hornfey, and the woods upon Hamftead- Hcath ; as alfo a wood called the OJd Park in Barcomb in Effex, near the brook.- fide?. Time.'] It flowereih in May, and the berries are ripe in September. Government and Virtues ] It is a tree of Venus, and per- haps under the celeflial fign Cancer The inner vcllow bark hereof purgeth downwards both cltoler and phlegm, and the watery humours of fuch that have the dropfy, and flrengthens the inward parts again by- binding. It the bark hereof be boiled with Agrimony, Wormwood, Dodder, Hops and tome Fennel, with Smallagc, Endive, and Suc- cory roots, and a rcalonablc draught taken every morning](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
