The Complete Herbal / To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic.

Chapter 369: THINGS BRED FROM PLANTS.

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A practical herbal compendium that catalogs dozens of plants with physical descriptions, engraved plates, and asserted medicinal and occult qualities linked to astrological correspondences. It provides systematic instructions for gathering, drying, and storing simples and detailed recipes and procedures for making syrups, conserves, oils, ointments, and compound medicines. The work also supplies an expanded family dispensatory, a list of common ailments with suggested treatments, and a general index to aid domestic use.

THINGS BRED FROM PLANTS.

These have been treated of before, only two excepted. The first of which is,

Agaricus. Agarick: It purges flegm, choler, and melancholy, from the brain, nerves, muscles, marrow, (or more properly brain) of the back, it cleanses the breast, lungs, liver, stomach, spleen, reins, womb, joints; it provokes urine, and the menses, kills worms, helps pains in the joints, and causes a good colour: it is very seldom or never taken alone. See Syrup of Roses with Agarick.

Lastly, Vicus Quircinus, or Misleto of the Oak, helps the falling-sickness being either taken inwardly, or hung about one’s neck.