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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![for fome time together, it is very effectual againft the jaun* dice, dropl'y. and the evil difpofition of the body, efpecially if fome fuitable purging medicines have been taken before, to void the gruffer excrements: it purgeth and ftrengtheneth the liver and fplccn, cleanfing them from fuch evil humours and hardnefs as they are afflidted with. It is to be under- flood that thefe things are performed by the dried bark; for the frefh green bark taken inwardly provokes flrong vomit- ings, pains in the flomach, and gripings in the belly; yet if the decodlion mav Hand and fettle two or three days, until the yellow colour be changed black, it will not work fo ftrongly as before, but will Arengthen the flomach, and pro- cure an appetite to meat. Tiie outward bark contrariwife doth bind the body, and is helpful for all lalks and fluxes thereof, but this alfo mud be dried rirft, whereby it will work the better. The inner bark thereof boiled in fineg**r is an approved remedy to kill lice, to cure the itch, and take away fcabs, by drying them up in a fhort time. It is Angu- larly good to wafh the teeth, to take away the pains, to fades thofe that are loofe. to cleat)fe them, and keep them found. The leaves are good fodder for kine, to make them give more milk. In the Spring-time you ule the herbs bcfore>men:ioned, and will take but a handful of each of them, and to them add an handful of Elder buds, and having bruifed them all boil them in a gallon of ordinary beer, when it is new; and having boiled them half an hour, add to this three gal- lons more, and let them work together, and drink a draught of it every morning, half a pint, or thereabouts, it is an ex- cellent purge tor the Spring, fo con fume the phlegmatic qua- my the Winter hath left behind it, and withal to keep your body in health, and confume thofc evil humours which the heat of Summer will readilr Air-up, Eflcein it as a jewel. The Common Alder-tree. E>cfcript.}Y~'\ «OWE . li • t a reafomblc height, and fpreads lnuet it it like the place. It is fo generally . kown unto country people, that I conceive it needlefs to tc-‘ hat which is no news. Place and Time ] It dcl'ghteth to grow in moifl woods, an wa’cr places; flowering in April or May, and yielding upe lecd in September. °](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24919500_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
