CND-0105Stomach and bowels
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and is of good effect to ease pains from the heat and sharpness of the blood in the piles, and generally all pains in the body that arise of heat.
as also the burning heat of the piles, or privy parts, cloths wet therein being thereunto applied.
The leaves and roots boiled in wine with a little oil, and applied to the piles, or the falling down of the fundament, eases them, and so doth sitting over the hot fumes thereof.
and for the hæmorrhoids, or piles.
The mucilage of the seed made with Plantain water, whereunto the yoke of an egg or two, and a little Populeon are put, is a most safe and sure remedy to ease the sharpness, pricking, and pains of the hæmorrhoids or piles, if it be laid on a cloth, and bound thereto.
The juice of the root applied to the piles or hæmorrhoids, gives much ease.
It is also held good in hydropick diseases, the jaundice, falling sickness, cramps, convulsions, the piles or hæmorrhoids, or other cold diseases.
the root baked under the embers, wrapped in paste or wet paper, or in a wet double cloth, and thereof a suppository made, and put up into or applied to the fundament, doth very effectually help the painful piles or hæmorrhoids.
The berries stay all fluxes, help the hæmorrhoids or piles, and kill worms in children.
Being used as a bath, or made into an ointment, it cools the painful piles or hæmorrhoidal veins.
And the oil made by the often infusion of the flowers, is of very good effect for the piles.
The green herb bruised and applied to the fundament and lying there two or three hours, eases the pains of the piles;
They are a remedy against a surfeit of mushrooms, being baked under the embers and taken, and being boiled and applied very warm, help the piles.
The said ointment, or the herb applied to the fundament, opens the piles, and eases their pains;
It is also effectual to ease the pains of the hæmorrhoids or piles.
and helps also the pains of the piles in the fundament.
Matthiolus saith, The oil preserved out of the kernels of the stones, as oil of almonds is made, is good against the inflamed piles, the tumours or swellings of ulcers, hoarseness of the voice, roughness of the tongue and throat, and likewise the pains in the ears.
as also the piles.
as well drank as outwardly applied, helps the sores of the fundament and the piles;
in helping the gout, piles, and women’s diseases, colours the hair black, helps the inflammations of the eyes, and pains in the ears, the biting of serpents, or mad dogs, burnings and scaldings, the wind cholic, cholic, and stone, the difficulty of urine, the cure of old sores and fistulous ulcers.
It is certain by good experience, that the decoction of the leaves and roots wonderfully helps piles and hæmorrhoids, also kernels by the ears and throat, called the king’s evil, or any other hard wens or tumours.
or for the piles when they bleed too much.
The leaves of Mulberries are said to stay bleeding at the mouth or nose, or the bleeding of the piles, or of a wound, being bound unto the places.
The same is also effectual for the piles or hæmorrhoids, if they be washed or bathed therewith, or with the distilled water of the herb and roots.
or used with hog’s grease, it helps the swellings and pains of the secret parts in man or woman, also for the piles or hæmorrhoids;
The green leaves are used with other herbs to make plaisters and poultices to inflammations and swellings, and to ease all pains whatsoever, arising of heat, and for the piles also, being fried with yolks of eggs, and applied thereto.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850