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The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one...

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Bind, as Rose-seeds, Barberries, Shepherd’s purse, Purslain, &c.
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Discuss. Dill, Carrots, Linseeds, Fenugreek, Nigella, &c.
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Cleanse. Beans, Orobus, Barley, Lupines, Nettles, &c.
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Mollify. Linseed, or Flax seed, Fenugreek seed, Mallows, Nigella.
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Harden. Purslain seed, &c.
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Suppure. Linseed, Fenugreek seed, Darnel, Barley husked, commonly called French Barley.
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Glutinate. Orobus, Lupines, Darnel, &c.
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Expel wind. Annis, Dill, Smallage, Caraway, Cummin, Carrots, Fennel, Nigella, Parsley, Hartwort, Wormseed.
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Breed seed. Rocket, Beans, Cicers, Ash tree keys.
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Provoke the menses. Amomus, Sparagus, Annis, Fennel, Bishop’s weed, Cicers, Carrots, Smallage, Parsley, Lovage, Hartwort.
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Break the stone. Mallows, Marsh-mallows, Gromwell, &c.
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Stop the terms. Rose seeds, Cummin, Burdock, &c.
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Resist poison. Bishop’s weed, Annis, Smallage, Cardamoms, Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Fennel, &c.
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Ease pain. Dill, Amomus, Cardamoms, Cummin, Carrots, Orobus, Fenugreek, Linseed, Gromwell, Parsley, Panick.
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Assuage swellings. Linseed, Fenugreek seeds, Marsh-mallows, Mallows, Coriander, Barley, Lupines, Darnel, &c.
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The College tells you a tale that there are such things in Rerum Natura, as these, Gums, Rozins, Balsams, and Juices made thick, viz.
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College.] Juices of Wormwood and Maudlin, Acacia, Aloes, Lees of Oil, Assafœtida, Balsam of Peru and India; Bdellium, Benzoin, Camphire, Caranna, Colophonia, Juice of Maudlin, Euphorbium, Lees of Wine, Lees of Oil, Gums of Galbanum, Amoniacum, Anime, Arabick, Cherry Trees, Copal, Elemy, Juniper, Ivy, Plumb Trees, Cambuge, Hypocystis, Labdanum, Lacca, Liquid Amber, Manna, Mastich, Myrrh, Olibanum, Opium, Opopanax, Pice-bitumen, Pitch of the Cedar of Greece, Liquid and dry Rozins of Fir-tree, Larch-tree, Pine tree, Pine-fruit, Mastich. Venice and Cyprus Turpentine. Sugar, white, red, and Christaline, or Sugar Candy white and red, Sagapen, Juniper, Gum, Sanguis Draconis, Sarcocolla, Scamony, Styrax, Liquid and Calamitis, Tacha, Mahacca, Tartar, Frankincense, Olibanum, Tragaganth, Birdlime.
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Culpeper.] That my country may receive more benefit than ever the college of Physicians intended them from these, I shall treat of them severally.
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2. Of the Gums and Rosins.

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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., Project Gutenberg eBook #49513

Appropriated to the body of man, and so they Concrete Juices, or Juices made thick, are either