GOUT-WORT, OR HERB GERRARD.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
Descript.] It is a low herb, seldom rising half a yard high, having sundry leaves standing on brownish green stalks by three, snipped about, and of a strong unpleasant savour: The umbels of the flowers are white, and the seed blackish, the root runs in the ground, quickly taking a great deal of room.
Place.] It grows by hedge and wall-sides, and often in the border and corner of fields, and in gardens also.
Time.] It flowers and seeds about the end of July.
Government and virtues.] Saturn rules it. Neither is it to be supposed Gout-wort hath its name for nothing but upon experiment to heal the gout and sciatica; as also joint-aches, and other cold griefs. The very bearing of it about one eases the pains of the gout, and defends him that bears it from the disease.