The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines Made of English ... by Nicholas Culpeper Parkins

Author:Nicholas Culpeper , Parkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crosby
Published: 1814-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Golden Maiden Hair. 5. (h. d. 2.)

To the former give me leave to add this, and I shall no more but only describe it unto yoii, and for the virtues refer youjto the former, since whatever is said of them, may be also said of this.

Descript,'] It hath many small, brownish, red hairs to make up the form of leaves growing about the ground from^ the root; and in the middle of them, ii) Summer, rise small stalks of the same colour, set with very fine yellowish green hairs on them, and bearing a small gold, yellow head, lesser than a wheat corn, standing in a great husk. The root is very small and thready.

Time.'] It groweth inbogs and moorish places, and also .on dry shady places,.as Hampstead Heath, and elsewhere.

Mallows and Marsh mallows. ? • {temp, tn, 1.)

Common Mallows are generally so well known, that they need no description.

Our Common Marshmallows have divers soft hairy white stalks, rising to be three or four feet high, spreading forth many branches, the leaves whereof are soft and hairy somewhat lesser than the other Mallow leaves, but longer pointed, cut (for the most part) into some few divisions, but deep. The flowers are many, but smaller also than the other Mallows, and white, or tending to a bluish colour; after which come such long round cases and seeds, as in the other Mallows. The roots are many and long, shooting froni one head, of the bigness of a thumb or finger, yiefy pliant, tough, and being like liquorice, of a whitish yellow colour on the outside, and more white within, full of a slimy juice, which being laid in water, will thicken, as if it were a jelly.

tHE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLARGED. 197

PlaceJ] Tlie common Mallows grow in eyery county of this land. The common Marslimallows in most of the salt marshes, from Woolwich down to the sea, both from the Kentish vnd Essex shore, and in dirers other places of hi s land.

TimeJ] They flower all the Summer months, even until the Winter do pull them down.

Government and f^irtueit.'] Venus owns them both. The leaves of either of the sorts before specified, and th« roots also boiled in wine and water, or in broth with parsley or fennel roots, do help to open the body, .and are very convenient in hot agues, or other distempers of the body, to apply the leaves so bo.led warm t<» the belly. It not only vuideth hot, choleric, and other offensive humours,but easeth the pains and torments of the belly coming thereby, and are therefore used in all clysters conducing to those purposes. The same used by nurses, procureth them store of milk. The decoctiou of the seed of any of the common Mallows made in milk or wine, doth marvellously help excoriations, the plithisic, pleurisy, and other diseases of the chest and lungs that proceed of hot causes, if it be continued taking for some time together. The leaves and roots work the same effects;

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