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Rhodium. Encreases milk in nurses.Santalum, album, Rubrum, citrinum. White, red, and yellow Sanders. They are allcold and dry in the second or third degree: the red stops defluxions from any part, andhelps inflammations: the white and yellow (of which the yellow is best) cool the heatof fevers, strengthen the heart, and cause cheerfulness.Sassafras. Is hot and dry in the second degree, it opens obstructions or stoppings, itstrengthens the breast exceedingly; if it be weakened through cold, it breaks the stone,stays vomiting, provokes urine, and is very profitable in the venereal, used in dietdrinks.Tamaris. Is profitable for the rickets, and burnings.Xylobalsamum. Wood of the Balsam tree, it is hot and dry in the second degree,according to Galen. I never read any great virtues of it.HERBS AND THEIR LEAVESA Brotanum, mas, fœmina. Southernwood, male and female. It is hot and dry in thethird degree, resists poison, kills worms; outwardly in plaisters, it dissolves coldswellings, and helps the bitings of venomous beasts, makes hair grow: take not abovehalf a dram at a time in powder.Absinthium, &c. Wormwood. Its several sorts, are all hot and dry in the second orthird degrees, the common Wormwood is thought to be hottest, they all help weaknessof the stomach, cleanse choler, kill worms, open stoppings, help surfeits, clear thesight, resist poison, cleanse the blood, and secure cloaths from moths.Abugilissa, &c. Alkanet. The leaves are something drying and binding, but inferiorin virtue to the roots, to which I refer you.Acetosa. Sorrel. Is moderately cold, dry and binding, cuts tough humours, cools thebrain, liver and stomach, cools the blood in fevers, and provokes appetite.Acanthus. Bears-breech, or Branks ursine, is temperate, something moist. See theroot.Adiantum, Album, nigrum. Maiden hair, white and black. They are temperate, yetdrying. White Maiden hair is that we usually call Wall-rue; they both openobstructions, cleanse the breast and lungs of gross slimy humours, provoke urine, helpruptures and shortness of wind.Adiantum Aurcum Politrycum. Golden Maiden-hair. Its temperature and virtues arethe same with the former; helps the spleen; burned, and lye made with the ashes,keeps the hair from falling off the head.Agrimonia. Agrimony. Galen's Eupatorium. It is hot and dry in the first degree,binding, it amends the infirmities of the liver, helps such as evacuate blood instead ofwater, helps inward wounds, opens obstructions. Outwardly applied it helps old sores,ulcers, &c. Inwardly, it helps the jaundice and the spleen. Take a dram of this or thatfollowing, inwardly in white wine, or boil the herb in white wine, and drink thedecoction. Galen, Pliny, Dioscorides, Serapio.Ageretum. Hot and dry in the second degree, provokes urine and the menses, driesthe brain, opens stoppings, helps the green sickness, and profits such as have a cold,weak liver; outwardly applied, it takes away the hardness of the matrix, and fillshollow ulcers with flesh.Agnus Castus, &c. Chast-tree. The leaves are hot and dry in the third degree; expelwind, consume the seed, cause chastity being only borne about one; it dissolvesswellings of the testicles, being applied to them, head-ache, and lethargy.