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 Virtues.—It is under the domi- nion of the Moon, cold in quality, and something binding, and therefore very good to stay defluctions, especially such as fall upon the eyes. It stops bleed- ing both inward and outward, helps cancers and all fretting sores and ulcers. It abates the heatofcholer, thereby preventing diseases arising from choleric hu- mours. It expels poison much, resisteth pestilential fevers, being exceeding good also for tertian agues ; you may drink the decoction of it if you please for all the foregoing infirmities. It is so harmless an herb, you can scarce use it amiss. Being bruised and ap- plied to the place, it helpeth the king’s evil, and any other knots or kernels in the flesh j as also the piles. ENGLISH TOBACCO. Descrip.—This risetli up with a round thick stalk, about two feet high, whereon do grow thick, flat, green leaves, nothing so large as the other Indian kind, somewhat round-pointed also, and nothing dented about the edges. The stalk branches forth, and bear- eth at the tops divers flowers set on great husks, like the other, but nothing so large: scarce standing above the brims of the husks, round-pointed also, and of a greenish yellow colour. The seed that fol- loweth is not so bright, but larger, contained in the like great heads. The roots are neither so great nor so woody: it perisketh every year with the hard frosts in the winter, but risetli generally of its own sowing. Place.—This came from some part of Brazil, as it is thought, and is more familiar in our country than any of the other sorts ; early giving ripe seed, which the others seldom do. Time.—It flowereth from Julie sometimes to the end of August, or later, and the seed ripeneth in the meantime. Government and Virtues.— It is a martial plant. It is found by good experience to be available to ex-