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Buxus. Boxtree: the leaves are hot, dry, and binding, they are profitable against thebiting of mad dogs; both taken inwardly boiled and applied to the place: besides theyare good to cure horses of the bots.Calamintha, Montana, Palustris. Mountain and Water Calamint. For the WaterCalamint see mints, than which it is accounted stronger. Mountain Calamint is hot anddry in the third degree, provokes urine and the menses, hastens the birth in women,brings away the placenta, helps cramps, convulsions, difficulty of breathing, killsworms, helps the dropsy: outwardly used, it helps such as hold their necks on oneside: half a dram is enough at one time. Galen, Dioscorides, Apuleius.Calendula, &c. Marigolds. The leaves are hot in the second degree, and somethingmoist, loosen the belly: the juice held in the mouth, helps the toothache, and takesaway any inflammation or hot swelling being bathed with it, mixed with a littlevinegar.Callitricum. Maiden-hair. See Adianthum.Caprisolium. Honey-suckles. The leaves are hot, and therefore naught forinflammations of the mouth and throat, for which the ignorant people oftentime givethem: and Galen was true in this, let modern writers write their pleasure. If you chewbut a leaf of it in your mouth, experience will tell you that it is likelier to cause, thanto cure a sore throat, they provoke urine, and purge by urine, bring speedy delivery towomen in travail, yet procure barrenness and hinder conception, outwardly they dryup foul ulcers, and cleanse the face from morphew, sun-burning and freckles.Carduncellus, &c. Groundsell. Cold and moist according to Tragus, helps thecholic, and gripings in the belly, helps such as cannot make water, cleanses the reins,purges choler and sharp humours: the usual way of taking it is to boil it in water withcurrants, and so eat it. I hold it to be a wholesome and harmless purge. Outwardly iteaseth women's breasts that are swollen and inflamed; as also inflammations of thejoints, nerves, or sinews. ‏.‏ginetaئCarduus B. ‏.وMari Our Ladies Thistles. They are far more temperate than CarduusBenedictus, open obstructions of the liver, help the jaundice and dropsy, provokeurine, break the stone.Carduus Benedictus. Blessed Thistle, but better known by the Latin name: it is hotand dry in the second degree, cleansing and opening, helps swimming and giddinessin the head, deafness, strengthens the memory, helps griping pains in the belly, killsworms, provokes sweat, expels poison, helps inflammation of the liver, is very goodin pestilence and venereal: outwardly applied, it ripens plague-sores, and helps hotswellings, the bitings of mad dogs and venomous beasts, and foul filthy ulcers. Everyone that can but make a Carduus posset, knows how to use it. Camerarius, Arnuldusvel anovanus.Chalina. See the roots, under the name of white Chameleon.Corallina. A kind of Sea Moss: cold, binding, drying, good for hot gouts,inflammations: also they say it kills worms, and therefore by some is called Mawwormseed.Cussutha, cascuta, potagralini. Dodder. See Epithimum.Caryophyllata. Avens, or Herb Bennet, hot and dry: they help the cholic, rawnessof the stomach, stitches in the sides, stoppings of the liver, and bruises.Cataputia minor. A kind of Spurge. See Tythymalus.Cattaria, Nepeta. Nep, or Catmints. The virtues are the same with Calaminth.Cauda Equina. Horse-tail; is of a binding drying quality, cures wounds, and is anadmirable remedy for sinews that are shrunk: it is a sure remedy for bleeding at the