Culpeper's English physician ; and complete herbal. Vol. I. / [Nicholas Culpeper].

  • Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
Date:
1810
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    52 C U L F E P E R’s ENGLISH PHYSICIAN, and chamelyce, &c. Galbaniferous and fagapeniferoiis; fennel-giant, apopanax- plant, or Hercules’s alheal, black poppy yielding opium, aloes, fcammony; wild cucumber yielding elaterium, euphorbium or gum-thiftle, liquorice, lugar-reed. VIII. Gummiferous, or gum-bearing; as lafarvvort bearing afafoetida. II. Internal in refpedl of their ufe and virtues, or as alimentary and medicinal. Of their ufe, or as dietical; and fo they are, 1. Frumentary, ferving as bread- corn: wheat, rye, fpelt-corn, bailey, oats, rice, Turkey-corn, millet, panic, burnt- corn, and phalaris. S. Leguminary, ferving as pulfe; as beans, peafe, lentils, ciches, cichling vetches, bitter vetches, lupines, kidney-beans, winged wild peafe, and fenugreek. 6. Oleraceous, ferving as pot-herbs, fallads, &c. and are, 1. Roots, as onions, garlic, leeks, raddilli, wild radilh, turnips, navew, parfnips, carrots, and red beets. 2. Leaves, as of lettuce, fuccory, cabbages, fpinage, orach, beets, <afpa- ragus, crelfes, muftard-feed, blites, hops, and llone-parfley. 3. Fruits, as artichokes, gourds, cucumbers, melons, ftrawberries, capers; and thofe of trees, as apples, quinces, oranges, lemons, pears, medlars, figs, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, mulberries, grapes, olives, almonds, chelhuts, walnuts, filberts, and fungi. 4. Con- dimentary, ferving as fanee; as pepper, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, cardarnums, nutmeg, mace, fatfron, elder, capers, creilbs, onions, garlic, &c. Sugar, oil, and vinegar, &c. The qualities, of which, lee in my Ifagoge Zoologice-mineralogica, they being there mentioned for fauces. 2. Of their virtues, or as jiharmaceut'cal in reJ'pect of their feveral parts and qualities, firft, fecond, third, and fourth. I. Roots; arc, 1. Temperate, as bear's breech, eringo, garden parfnips, falop, mallows, machoacan, afjiaragus, cinquefoil, lady's thiftle, and tormentil. 2. Hot, and fo, in the hrft degree, as bafil, burdocks, borage, buglofs, avens, aromatical reed, china, dog’s grafs, liquorice, knee-holly, mallows, marlhmallows, pilewort, piony, poppy, Iparling, parfley, wild parfnips, fell-heal, fatyrion, fkirrets, Icorzo- nera, valerian great and fmall, and white lilies. In the fecond, as afphodel male, carline thiftle, cyprefs long and round, butterbur, devil’s bit, hog’s fennel, lovage, fennel, mercury, reed.s, fwallow-wort, fpignel, farfaparilla, fquills, waterflag, and zedoary. In the third, as angelica, avon, afi'arabecca, elecampane, birthwort long and round, briony white and black, celandine, doronicum, filapendula, ginger, ftinking gladden, gallingal greater and lefs, hellebore white and black, mafter- wort, orris Englilliand Florentine, reftharrow, fowbread, fnakeroot, Virginian tur- bith, turmeric, and white dittany. In the fourth, as garlic, leeks, onions, and pel- litory of Spain. 3. Cold, and lb in the firft degree, as beets white and red, com- frey