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Cichorium. Succory, to which add Endive which comes after. They are cold anddry in the second degree, cleansing and opening; they cool the heats of the liver, andare profitable in the yellow jaundice, and burning fevers; help excoriations in theprivities, hot stomachs; and outwardly applied, help hot rheums in the eyes.Cicuta. Hemlock: cold in the fourth degree, poisonous: outwardly applied, it helpsPriapismus, the shingles, St. Anthony's fire, or any eating ulcers.Clematis Daphnoides, Vinca provinca. Periwinkle. Hot in the second degree,something dry and binding; stops lasks, spitting of blood, and the menses.Consolida major. Comfrey, I do not conceive the leaves to be so virtuous as theroots.Consolida media. Bugles, of which before.Consolida minima. Dasies.Consolida rubra. Golden Rod: hot and dry in the second degree, cleanses the reins,provokes urine, brings away the gravel; an admirable herb for wounded people to takeinwardly, stops blood, &c.Consolida Regalis, Delphinium. Lark heels: resist poison, help the bitings ofvenomous beasts.Saracenica Solidago. Saracens Confound. Helps inward wounds, sore mouths, sorethroats, wasting of the lungs, and liver.Coronepus. Buchorn Plantane, or Sea-plantain; cold and dry, helps the bitings ofvenomous beasts, either taken inwardly or applied to the wound: helps the cholic,breaks the stone. ‏.‏ginetaئCoronaria. Hath got many English names. Cottonweed, Cudweed, Chaffweed, andPetty Cotton. Of a drying and binding nature; boiled in lye, it keeps the head from nitsand lice; being laid among clothes, it keeps them safe from moths, kills worms, helpsthe bitings of venomous beasts; taken in a tobacco-pipe, it helps coughs of the lungs,and vehement headaches.Cruciata. Crosswort: (there is a kind of Gentian called also by this name, which Ipass by) is drying and binding, exceeding good for inward or outward wounds, eitherinwardly taken, or outwardly applied: and an excellent remedy for such as are bursten.Crassula. Orpine. Very good: outwardly used with vinegar, it clears the skin;inwardly taken, it helps gnawings of the stomach and bowels, ulcers in the lungs,bloody-flux, and quinsy in the throat, for which last disease it is inferior to none, takenot too much of it at a time, because of its coolness.Crithamus, &c. Sampire. Hot and dry, helps difficulty of urine, the yellowjaundice, provokes the menses, helps digestion, opens stoppings of the liver andspleen. Galen.Cucumis Asininus. Wild Cucumbers. See Elaterium.Cyanus major, minor. Blue bottle, great and small, a fine cooling herb, helpsbruises, wounds, broken veins; the juice dropped into the eye, helps the inflammationsthereof.Cygnoglossam. Hound's-Tongue, cold and dry: applied to the fundament helps thehemorrhoids, heals wounds and ulcers, and is a present remedy against the bitings ofdogs, burnings and scaldings.Cypressus, Chamœ Cyparissus. Cypress-tree. The leaves are hot and binding, helpruptures, and Polypus or flesh growing on the nose.وCham cyparissus. Is Lavender Cotton. Resists poison, and kills worms.Disetamnus Cretensis. Dictamny, or Dittany of Creet, hot and dry, brings awaydead children, hastens delivery, brings away the placenta, the very smell of it drivesaway venomous beasts, so deadly an enemy it is to poison; it is an admirable remedy