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The temperature & vertues of Ledge Lyssop
Ledge Lyssope is hott & dry of temperature.
The vertues.
Who so taketh but one scruple of Gratiola bruysed, shall _ceave evidently his effectuall operation & vertue, in purging mightily, & that in greate abundance, watrish, grosse, & slimiye humors. Conradus Gesneras experimented this, & founded it to be true, & so have I my selfe & many otheres.
Gratiola boyled, & the decoctio drunke or eatenn w th any kinde of meate, in manner of a sallad, openeth the bellye, & causeth notable loosenes, & to flowre freely, & by that meanes purgeth grosse flegmes, & cholerike humors.
Gratiola, of Ledge Lyssope boyled in wine & given to drinke, helpeth feuers of what sorte soever & is most excellent in dropsies, & such like diseases proceedinge of could & watery caughes. The extraction given w th the powder of cinamom & a litle of th iuce of salaminte prevaileth against tertian & quotidian feuers, sett downe for most certaine by the learned Joachimus Camerarius.
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Of Lavander Spike, the temperature.
Lavander is hot & drye, & that in the third degree, & is of a thinn substance, consistinge of many airie & spirituall ptes. Therefort it is good to be given any way against the diseases of the head, & espetially those which have theire originall or beginninge not of a bundance of humors, but cheifely of a qualitie onely.
The Vertues.
The distilled water of Lavander smelt unto, or the temples and forehead bathed therwith, is a refreshinge to them that have the Catalepsie, a light migrane, & to them that have the fallinge sicknes, & that [?] to soone much. But when there is a bundance of humors, espetiallly mixed with blood, it is not then to be [?] safely, neither is the composition to be taken, which made of distilled wine: in which such kinde of herbes, flowers, or seeds, & certayne spices are infused or steeped, though most men do rashly & att adventure give them w thout makinge any difference at all for by [dosinge?] such hot thinge that fill & stuffe the head, both the disease is made greater & the sicke also brought into danger, espetially when letting of blood, or purging have not gone before. This much by way of admonition, because every where divers rash & overbold Apothecaries, & other foolish weomen, do by & by give such compositions, & others of the like kinde, not onely to those that have the Apoplexie; but also to those that
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that cannot sleepe, & have also an ague; to whom they cann give nothinge worse, seeinge those things doe very much hurte, & oftentymes bringe death it selfe.
The flowers of lavander picked from the [knapp?], I meane the blew [?], & not the huske, mixed w th cinamom, nutmeg, & cloves made into powder, & given to drinke in the distilled water there of, doth helpe the pantinge & passion of the harte, prevaileth against gideinesse, turninge or swimminge of the braine & members subiect to the palsey.
Conserve made of the flowers w if the quantatie of a beane be taken therof in the morninge fastinge.
th suger, profiteth much against the disease aforesaidIt profiteth much that have the palsie, if they be washed w th the distilled water of the flowers, or annoynted w th the oyle made of the fflowers & oyle olive, in such manner as oyle of roses, which shalle expresed in the treatise of roses.
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The temperature of Gromell. [] The seede of Gromell is hott & drie in the second degree:.
The vertues.
The seede of Gromell [pownd?], & drunke in white wine, breaketh dissolueth & dryweth foorth the stone & provoketh urine & espetially breaketh the stone in the Bladder.
The vertues of Dodder
Dodder remooveth the stoppinge of the lyver [melt?] or spleene, it disburtheneth the veines of flegmaticka, choloricke, crrupt & supfluous humors pvoketh the veine gently, & in a meane openeth kidnes, crureth the yellow ius [?] which are ioyned w th the stoppinge of the lyver & gaule, it a remedie against crmpt & longe [terticens?], quartians also, & proplye agues in Infante & yonge children, as Mesues sayth in Cerapio; who also teacheth, the nature of dodder is to purge cholen by the stoole, & that more effectually if it have worme woode ioyned w th it; but too much usinge of it, is hurt full to the stomacke: yett Auicon writeth that it doth not hurt it, but strengtheneth a weake or feeble stomacke; which opinion allso we do better allow of. Epithimum, or the dodder which groweth upon tyme, is hotter & dryer then the dodder that groweth upon claye, that is to saye, even in the third degree
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As Galen saith It helpeth all the infirmities of the melte: it is a remedie against obstructions & & hard wemine swellinge: it taketh a waye ould head aches, the fallinge sicknesse, mad nesse that cometh of melancollie, & espetially that w h proceedeth from the spleene & pts therabout: it is good for those that have the ffuewe disease, & such as be troubled w th contagious ulcers, the leprosie, & the scabbie [euill?]. It purgeth downewarde blacke & melancholicke humours, as Aetius, Actuarius, & Mesues write; & also plegme as Dioscorides noteth: that like wyse purgeth by stoole which groweth upon Gavorie & Scabius, but more weakely, as Actuarius sayth. Suscuta, or dodder that groweth upon [thape?] boyled in water or wines drunke, openeth the stoppinge of the liver, the bladder, the gaule, the wilt the kidneies & penies, purgeth both by seige & [brwe?] cholericke humours.
Its good against the Ague that hath continude alone tyme, & against the iaundise, I meane that dodder espetially that groweth upon brambles.
Epuirtica, or dodder growinge upon netles, is a most singular & effectuall medicine to pvoke urine, & to loose the obstructions of the bodye, & is pred ofen tymes in the [wet pts?] to have good successe against any maladies.