CND-0048Fevers and infections
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And all the preparations thereof, as barley-water and other things made thereof, give great nourishment to persons troubled with fevers, agues, and heats in the stomach:
The seed or leaves taken in wine, is very good against the plague, and all infectious diseases, and is very good in pestilential fevers.
The leaves and roots are to very good purpose used in putrid and pestilential fevers, to defend the heart, and help to resist and expel the poison, or the venom of other creatures:
It is excellently good in hectic fevers, and restores radical moisture to such as are in consumptions.
It is an especial herb used in all inflammations and fevers, whether infectious or pestilential;
They are also excellently good in hot pestilent fevers, and expel poison.
The distilled water is effectual to drink in pestilential fevers, and to wash the sores.
The herb or the root (all that the devil hath left of it) being boiled in wine, and drank, is very powerful against the plague, and all pestilential diseases or fevers, poisons also, and the bitings of venemous beasts:
The distilled water by some is highly esteemed against all inward inflammations and pestilent fevers;
it resists poison, and stays the spreading of the venom of serpents, as also putrid and pestilential fevers, and the plague itself.
a syrup of it is a fine cooling medicine for fevers.
The mucilage of the seed made with Rose-water, and a little sugar-candy put thereto, is very good in all hot agues and burning fevers, and other inflammations, to cool the thirst, and lenify the dryness and roughness of the tongue and throat.
And applied with vinegar to the forehead and temples, helps the head-ache and want of sleep in hot fevers.
A plaister made with the dry flowers in powder, hog’s-grease, turpentine, and rosin, applied to the breast, strengthens and succours the heart infinitely in fevers, whether pestilential or not.
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being boiled in wine and given to drink, it is a good remedy against the plague, and other pestilential fevers, if the party after taking it be warm in his bed, and sweat for two hours after, and use the same for twice at least.
It purges choler without trouble, it is good in hot fevers, and pains of the head arising from hot choleric humours, and heat in the eyes, the jaundice also, and joint-aches proceeding of hot humours.
It expels poison much, resists pestilential fevers, being exceeding good also for tertian agues:
The distilled water of the branches, leaves, and flowers, or of the fruit, is very pleasant in taste, and very effectual in fevers and hot distempers of the body, head, eyes, and other parts, and for the purposes aforesaid.
The roots thereof are by long experience found to be very available against the plague and pestilential fevers by provoking sweat;
The same is singularly good in pestilential and hot burning fevers;
It is a fine cool tree, the boughs of which are very convenient to be placed in the chamber of one sick of a fever.
The juice of the herb and root, or the decoction thereof, taken with some Venice treacle, and the person laid to sweat, expels any venom or poison, or the plague, fever, or other contagious diseases, as pox, measles, &c.
they are excellently good in pestilential fevers, the roots being bruised and boiled in wine, and the decoction drank;
Wood Sorrel serves to all the purposes that the other Sorrels do, and is more effectual in hindering putrefaction of blood, and ulcers in the mouth and body, and to quench thirst, to strengthen a weak stomach, to procure an appetite, to stay vomiting, and very excellent in any contagious sickness or pestilential fevers.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850