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Fوniculum. Fennel, encreaseth milk in nurses, provokes urine, breaks the stone,easeth pains in the reins, opens stoppings, breaks wind, provokes the menses; youmay boil it in white wine.Fragaria. Strawberry leaves, are cold, dry, and binding, a singular remedy forinflammations and wounds, hot diseases in the throat; they stop fluxes and the terms,cool the heat of the stomach, and the inflammations of the liver. The best way is toboil them in barley water.Fraxinus, &c. Ash-trees, the leaves are moderately hot and dry, cure the bitings ofAdders, and Serpents; they stop looseness, and stay vomiting, help the rickets, openstoppages of the liver and spleen.Fumaria. Fumitory: cold and dry, it opens and cleanses by urine, helps such as areitchy, and scabbed, clears the skin, opens stoppings of the liver and spleen, helpsrickets, hypochondriac melancholy, madness, frenzies, quartan agues, loosens thebelly, gently purgeth melancholy, and addust choler: boil it in white wine, and takethis one general rule. All things of a cleansing or opening nature may be mostcommodiously boiled in white wine. Remember but this, and then I need not repeat it.Galega. Goat's-rue. Temperate in quality, resists poison, kills worms, helps thefalling-sickness, resists the pestilence. You may take a dram of it at a time in powder.Galion. Ladies-bed straw: dry and binding, stanches blood, boiled in oil, the oil isgood to anoint a weary traveller; inwardly it provokes venery.Gentiana. See the root.Genista. Brooms: hot and dry in the second degree, cleanse and open the stomach,break the stone in the reins and bladder, help the green sickness. Let such as aretroubled with heart-qualms or faintings, forbear it, for it weakens the heart and spiritvital. See the flowers.Geranium. Cranebill, the divers sorts of it, one of which is that which is calledMuscata; it is thought to be cool and dry, helps hot swellings, and by its smell amendsa hot brain.Geranium Columbinum. Doves-foot; helps the wind cholic, pains in the belly, stonein the reins and bladder, and is good in ruptures, and inward wounds. I suppose theseare the general virtues of them all.Gramen. Grass. See the root.Gratiola. Hedge-Hyssop, purges water and flegm, but works very churlishly.Gesner commends it in dropsies.Asphodelus fœm. See the root.Hepatica, Lichen. Liverwort, cold and dry, good for inflammations of the liver, orany other inflammations, yellow jaundice.Hedera Arborea, Terrostris. Tree and Ground-Ivy. Tree-Ivy helps ulcers, burnings,scaldings, the bad effects of the spleen; the juice snuffed up the nose, purges the head,it is admirable for surfeits or headache, or any other ill effects coming of drunkenness.Ground-Ivy is that which usually is called Alehoof, hot and dry, the juice helps noisein the ears, fistulas, gouts, stoppings of the liver, it strengthens the reins and stops themenses, helps the yellow jaundice, and other diseases coming of stoppings of theliver, and is excellent for wounded people.Herba Camphorata. Stinking Groundpine, is of a drying quality, and thereforestops defluxions either in the eyes or upon the lungs, the gout, cramps, palsies, aches:strengthens the nerves.Herba Paralysis, Primula veris. Primroses, or Cowslips, which you will. Theleaves help pains in the head and joints; see the flowers which are most in use.