The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich. Culpeper.

Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian

Date:: 1652

Credit: The English physitian: or an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick ... / By Nich. Culpeper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Fluxes, • T'nne- It ufually flowreth in June and July, and the feed is tipe ihortly after. Vcftites and Vfe. This Y^a^weed helpethto ftay Tluxes, both of blood at the mouth or nofe, or other ' V/ ■ outward partSjand thofc veins tharate inwardly mee uig, ^j. inward wounds, as alfo the Fluxes^ f of the belly i Itftayeth the diftillations of vi'r\ “P°^ Vbtijuii, ftomachand Lungs: it is.goodforthofe _f that are bruifed by any fall, blowes, or othcr- owr, Yvife. It is very profitable for thofe that are »ptii'ieS} a E^upturc, by drinking the c dccodtion of the Hearbe and roots in wine. and applying the fame outwardly to the place. u aes- jj jj. gQo^ jn al running fores,cankrous and fiftulous drying up the moyfture and healing them up gently, without fharpnefsi ffre I doth the like to running fores or fcabs'of vu a, other parts. It is of fpecial ufe j (cpps- for the forenefs of the Throat, fwelling of the Vvula and Jaws; and excellent good to ftay the bleeding and hcale up all green wounds. Saturn challengeth the herb for his own. ons of rhewmatick humors upon the ftomach, &killethWorms in the belly or ftomack,quie- teth inward paines that arife from the heat, -» // , lharpnefs & corniption of blood and Choller : » The diftilled water herof taken by it felf,or the pouder of the Herb or feed, is very eflfeftual .to at the purpofes aforefasd, andi^accounted as one of the moft Soveraign remedies to cool all maimer of inflamations,breakings out rfirough ^ , * heate, hot Swellings, and Impoftumarions * Gangrenes, and Fiftulous Cankers, or foule A filthy Ulcers, being applyed or put into ^ them ; but cfpecially for all forts of Ulcers 1 and 5orcs happening in theprivie parts of men or women. It helpech all frefh and green Wounds, and fpeedily helpeth them: The juyee dropped into the Ears, cleanfeth them being foule and having running matter in them. Saturn feems to me to own the Hearb, and yfet foine hold the Sun, out of doubt ’tis Saturn, h is veryprevalent for the ptemifes: as alfo for btoken ]oynts,and Ruptures.’ ^^^ *3^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ » ( i I \ ft a f I 1 Knot-grafs. T>efcnptlon. ^ . His fs generally fo wcl known that it nec- dethnoDefeription. 'PUce^ It groweth in every County of this Land, by the High-way fides and by foot paths in Fields, as alfo by the fides of old Walls. Time' It fpringeth up late in the Spring, and abideth until Winter, when ^1 the branches perifh. • Venues andufe* The Juyee of the common kind of Bleeding, Knot-gfafs, is moft effeftuall to ftay bleeding Heat, at the’ mouth, being drunkc in fteeled or Flux, red Wine: and the bleeding at the Nofe, to be Bloody applyed to the Forehead andTcmples or to be Flux, fquirted up into the Noftrils. Andnolcfs Courfes effedluall to code aniftcmper that heat of the fiops, blood, & ftomach and to ftay any Flux of the Vifury, blood or humors,asLask,Bloodyflux,Womens Gravel, courfes, and Running of the Reins. It is Veitewous fingular good to provoke Urine, helpe the Beafis, ftvangurie, and dlay the heate thatcometh Khewm, therby, and it is powerful byUrin to expel the Worms, Gravell, orftoneinthe kidneys or Bladder, Heat, a drana of the pouder of the Herb bein^taken in wine for many dayes together: Being boyled in wine and drunke,it is profitable to thofe that are ftung or bitten by venemous creatures, andvery effectual to ftay al defluxi- Ladies*Mantk: Defcrlptlorii His hath many leavs tifing from the Root, ftanding upon long hairy fobtftalkes, being almorc round, but a little cut in on the edges, into eight or ten parts more or lefs, makings it feem Hke a Star, with fo many corners and points, and dented round a- bout, of a light green colour- fomwfiat hard in handling, and 3$ if it were folded, or plaited at firft, and then .crumpled in diverf places, and a little hairy as the Stalk is alfo, which ri- feth up among them to the height of two or three foot, with fuch like Leavs thereon but fmaller, and being weak is not able to ftand upright, but bendeth down to the Ground, de- vided at the top into two or three Imal Bran¬ ches, with final yellowifh green Heads, and Flowers of a whitifti colour, breaking out of them; which being paft, there cometh final yellow Seed like Poppy Seed : The Root is fomwhat long and black with many ftrings or fibres thereat. ■ Place. It groweth naturally in manyPaftures, and Wood fides, in Harfordjhire, wiltjhire, and • Yent, and other places of this Land. Time. It Flowreth in May and June, and abideth after Seed time green ai the Winter. Venues and Vfe. Ladies-Mantle is very proper for thofe Inflamatl^ Wounds that have Inflamations, and is very ons, <. efteduft$