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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    Government and Virtue* --Saturn rules it. Nei- ther is it to be supposed goutwort hath its name for nothing, but upon experiment it will be found to heal the gout and sciatica ; as also joint aches and other cold griefs. The very hearincr of it about one easeth pains of the gout, and defends him that bears it from the disease. GROMEL. Of tnis I shall briefly describe the kinds which are principally used in physic, the virtues whereof are alike, though somewhat different in their manner and form of growing. Descrip.—The greater gromel groweth up with slender, hard, and hairy stalks, trailing and taking root in the ground as it lieth thereon, and parted into many other small branches, with hairy dark green leaves thereon. At the joints with the leaves come forth very small blue flowers, and after them hard stony roundish seed. The root is long and woody, abiding the winter, and shooteth forth fresh stalks ia the spring. The smaller wild gromel sendeth forth divers up- right hard branched stalks two or three feet high, full of joints, at every one of which groweth small, long, hard, and rough leaves like the former, but lesser; among which leaves come forth small white flowers, and after them greyish round seed like the former. The root is not very big. but with many strings thereat. The garden gromel hath divers upright, slender, woody, hairy stalks, blown and cressed, very little branched, with leaves like the former, and white flowers ; after which, in rough brown husks, is con- tained a white, hard, round seed, shining like pearls, and greater than either of the former: the root is like the first described, with divers branches and sprigs thereat, which continueth (as the first doth) all the winter. Place.—The two first grow wild in barren or un-