Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines made from English herbs ...

  • Culpeper Nicholas, 1616-1654.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Culpeper's complete herbal : with nearly four hundred medicines made from English herbs ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    corruption ; itdissolveth without attract ion, openeth obstructions and helpeth their evil effects, and it is a wonderful help to all sorts of dry agues. It is as- tringent to the stomach, and strengthened the liver and all the other inward parts: and taken in whey, worketh more effectually. Taken fasting in the morning, it is very profitable for pains in the head, that are continual; and to stay, dry up, and consume all thin rheums or distillations from the head into the stomach, and helpeth much to digest raw humours that are gathered therein. It is very profitable for those that are fallen into a continual evil disposition of the body, called cachexia, but especially in the be- ginning of the disease. It is an especial friend and hel p to evil, weak, and cold livers. The seed is familiarly given to children for the worms, and so is the infusion of flowers in white wine given them to the quantity of two ounces at a time : it maketli an excellent salve to cleanse and heal old ulcers, being boiled with oil of olive, and adder’s tongue with it; and after it is strained, put a little wax, rosin, and turpentine to bring it to a convenient body. CUDWEED, or COTTONWEED. Besides cudweed and cottonweed, it is called chaff- weed, dwarf cotton, and petty cotton. Descrip.—The common cudweed riseth up with one stalk sometimes, and sometimes with two or three, thick set on all sides, with small, long, and narrow whitish and woody leaves, from the middle of the stalk almost up to the top; with every leaf standeth a small flower of a dun or brownish yellow colour, or not so yellow as others; in which herbs, after the flowers are fallen come small seed wrapped up with the down therein, and is carried away with the wind: the root is small and thready. There are other sorts hereof, which are somewhat lesser than the former, not much different, save only that the stalks and leaves are shorter, so the flow- ers are paler and move open.