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Aspergula odorata. Wood-roof. Cheers the heart, makes men merry, helpsmelancholy, and opens the stoppings of the liver.Aquilegia. Columbines: help sore throats, are of a drying, binding quality.Argentina. Silver-weed, or Wild Tansy, cold and dry almost in the third degree;stops lasks, fluxes, and the menses, good against ulcers, the stone, and inwardwounds: easeth gripings in the belly, fastens loose teeth: outwardly it takes awayfreckles, morphew, and sunburning, it takes away inflammations, and bound to thewrists stops the violence of the fits of the ague.Artanita. Sow-bread: hot and dry in the third degree, it is a dangerous purge:outwardly in ointments it takes away freckles, sunburning, and the marks which thesmall pox leaves behind them: dangerous for pregnant women.Aristolochia, longa, rotunda. Birth-wort long and round. See the roots.Artemisia. Mugwort: is hot and dry in the second degree: binding: an herbappropriated to the female sex; it brings down the menses, brings away both birth andplacenta, eases pains in the matrix. You may take a dram at a time.Asparagus. See the roots.Asarum, &c. Asarabacca: hot and dry; provokes vomiting and urine, and are goodfor dropsies. They are corrected with mace or cinnamon.Atriplex, &c. Orach, or Arrach. It is cold in the first degree, and moist in thesecond, saith Galen, and makes the belly soluble. It is an admirable remedy for the fitsof the mother, and other infirmities of the matrix, and therefore the Latins called itVulvaria.Aricula muris, major. Mouse-ear: hot and dry, of a binding quality, it is admirableto heal wounds, inward or outward, as also ruptures or burstness. Edge-toolsquenched in the juice of it, will cut iron without turning the edge, as easy as they willlead. And, lastly, it helps the swelling of the spleen, coughs and consumptions, of thelungs.Attractivis hirsuta. Wild Bastard-saffron, Distaff-thistle, or Spindle-thistle. Is dryand moderately digesting, helps the biting of venomous beasts. Mesue saith, It is hotin the first degree, and dry in the second, and cleanseth the breast and lungs of toughflegm.Balsamita, &c. Costmary, Alecost. See Maudlin.Barbajovis, sedum majus. Houseleek or Sengreen: cold in the third degree,profitable against the Shingles, and other hot creeping ulcers, inflammations, St.Anthony's fire, frenzies; it cools and takes away corns from the toes, being bathedwith the juice of it, and a skin of the leaf laid over the place; stops fluxes, helpsscalding and burning.Bardana. Clot-bur, or Bur-dock: temperately dry and wasting, something cooling;it is held to be good against the shrinking of the sinews; eases pains in the bladder,and provokes urine. Also Mizaldus saith, That a leaf applied to the top of the head of awoman draws the matrix upwards, but applied to the soles of the feet draws itdownwards, and is therefore an admirable remedy for suffocations, precipitations, anddislocations of the matrix, if a wise man have but the using of it.Beta, alba, nigra, rubra. Beets, white, black, and red; black Beets I have noknowledge of. The white are something colder and moister than the red, both of themloosen the belly, but have little or no nourishment. The white provoke to stool, and aremore cleansing, open stoppings of the liver and spleen, help the vertigo or swimmingin the head. The red stay fluxes, help the immoderate flowing of the menses, and aregood in the yellow jaundice.