Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a ...

LEECK r.OOK. I. 77
xxxii. Book I.
f"h. xxxii.
1. Leechdoms for blotch and baths. Fifteen in all.
2. Boil the netherward part of helenium and mint
in the runnings of salt, that it be as thick as brewit,
minofle together, smear therewith. Against blotch, take
the netherward part of helenium, and so also of dock
(that which will swim), and ontre, and bishopwort,
and ash rind, seethe in butter, strain through a cloth,
then mingle with pepper and with tar, grind these,
smear therewith. For blotch, boil helenium in butter,
mingle with soot, salt, tar, honey, old soap, smear
therewith. For blotch, take goose grease and the
netherward part of helenium and vipers bugloss, bishopwort
and hayrife, pound the four worts together well,
wring them, add thereto of old soap a spoon full, if thou
have it, mingle a little oil with them thoroughly, and
at night lather on. Scarify the neck after the setting
of the sun, pour in silence the blood into running
water, after that spit three times, then say, " Have
thou this unheal, and depart away with it ;" go again on
a clean way to the house, and go either way in silence.
A bath ^ for blotch, boil ten times the worts in a basin ^
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and separately betony, nepeta, marrubium,
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yarrow, mint, horseheal,'"^ hindheal,^ churmel,*^ earthgall,'^ Eupatonum
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