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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    eth the skin of all leprosies, morphews, ring-worms, and the like, if it be used with salt and reddish roots. And being used with quick brimstone and vinegar, it dissolveth knots and kernels, and breaketh those that are hard to be dissolved, being boiled in wine with pigeon’s dung and linseed. A decoction thereof made with water and honey, and the places bathed therewith is profitable for the sciatica. Darnel meal applied in a poultice draweth forth splinters and broken bones in the flesh. The red darnel boiled in red wine and taken, stayeth the lask and all other fluxes and women’s bloody issues, and restraineth urine that passeth away too suddenly. DILL. Descrip.—The common dill groweth up with sel- dom more than one stalk, neither so high nor so great usually as fennel, beinground and fewer joints thereon, whose leaves are sadder and somewhat long, and so like fennel that it deceiveth many, but harder in handling, and somewhat thicker, and of a stronger un- pleasant scent; the tops of thestalks have four branch- es, and smaller umbels of yellow flowers, which turn into small seed, some what flatter and thinner thai funnel seed. The root is somewhat small and woody, perishelh every year after it hath borne seed, and is also unprofitable, being never put to any use. Place.—It is most usually sown in gardens and grounds for the purpose, aud is also found wild in many places. Government and Virtues.—Mercury hath the domi- nion of this plant, and therefore to be sure it strength- ens the brain. The dill boiled and drank, is good to ease both swellings and pains ; it also stayeth the belly and stomach from easting. The decoction help- eth women that are troubled with pains aud windiness or the mother, if they sit therein. It stayeth the hic- cough, being boiled in wine, and but smelled unto, being tied m a cloth. The seed is of more use than