According to property, so they bind.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
Balaustins, Saffron, Succory, Endive, red-roses, Melilot, Bawm, Clove-gilliflowers, Agnus Castus.
Discuss. Dill, Chamomel, Marsh-mallows, Mallows, Melilot, Stœchas, &c.
Cleanse. Damask-roses, Elder flowers, Bean flowers, &c.
Extenuate. Orris, or Flower-de-luce, Chamomel, Melilot, Stœchas, &c.
Mollify. Saffron, white Lilies, Mallows, Marsh-mallows, &c.
Suppure. Saffron, white Lilies, &c.
Glutinate. Balaustines, Centaury, &c.
Provoke the terms. Bettony, Centaury, Chamomel, Schœnanth, Wall-flowers, Bawm Peony, Rosemary, Sage.
Stop the terms. Balaustines, or Pomegranate flowers, Water Lilies.
Expel wind. Dill, Chamomel, Schœnanth, Spikenard.
Help burnings. White Lilies, Mallows, Marsh-mallows.
Resist poison. Bettony, Centaury.
Ease pain. Dill, Chamomel, Centaury, Melilot, Rosemary.
Flowers purge choler. Peach flowers, Damask Roses, Violets.
Flegm. Broom flowers, Elder flowers.
If you compare but the quality of the flowers with the herbs, and with the explanation of these terms at the latter end, you may easily find the temperature and property of the rest.
The flowers of Ox-eye being boiled into a poultice with a little barley meal, take away swellings and hardness of the flesh, being applied warm to the place.
Chamomel flowers heat, discuss, loosen and rarify, boiled in Clysters, they are excellent in the wind cholic, boiled in wine, and the decoction drunk, purges the reins, break the stone, opens the pores, cast out choleric humours, succours the heart, and eases pains and aches, or stiffness coming by travelling.
The flowers of Rocket used outwardly, discuss swellings, and dissolve hard tumors, you may boil them into a poultice, but inwardly taken they send but unwholesome vapours up to the head.
Hops open obstructions of the bowels, liver, and spleen, they cleanse the body of choler and flegm, provoke urine.
Jasmine flowers boiled in oil, and the grieved place bathed with it, takes away cramps and stitches in the sides.
The flowers of Woodbine, or Honeysuckles, being dryed and beaten into powder, and a dram taken in white wine in the morning, helps the rickets, difficulty of breathing; provoke urine, and help the stranguary.
The flowers of Mallows being bruised and boiled in honey (two ounces of the flowers is sufficient for a pound of honey; and having first clarified the honey before you put them in) then strained out; this honey taken with a liquorice stick, is an excellent remedy for Coughs, Asthmas, and consumptions of the lungs.