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expels venom or poison, and also the plague;
It resists poison, by defending and comforting the heart, blood, and spirits;
The root in the Spring-time steeped in wine, gives it a delicate savour and taste, and being drank fasting every morning, comforts the heart, and is a good preservative against the plague, or any other poison.
both the leaves and roots have a powerful faculty to resist all poison.
If a beast be troubled with a cough, or have taken any poison, they bore a hole through the ear, and put a piece of the root in it, this will help him in 24 hours time.
being taken in the water of Plaintain, Horsetail, or the greater Confrey, it is a remedy against the poison of the Scorpion, and resists all venoms and poison.
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:
They are also excellently good in hot pestilent fevers, and expel poison.
Tragus reports, that a dram weight, or more, if need be, of the spotted Wake Robin, either fresh and green, or dried, having been eaten and taken, is a present and sure remedy for poison and the plague.
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:
it is excellently good against pestilence and poison.
it resists poison, and stays the spreading of the venom of serpents, as also putrid and pestilential fevers, and the plague itself.
Monardus saith, it is a counter poison against the biting of any venomous creature, the herb also being outwardly applied to the hurt place.
expels poison, provokes women’s courses, drives forth the dead child, and after-birth.
Being applied to the place bitten by venomous beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it;
The seed thereof taken in wine, is an antidote against all dangerous medicines or deadly poisons.
They resist putrefactions, poison, and a more sure remedy cannot be found to prevent the pestilence than it is;
It is most effectual against the poison of all serpents, being drank in wine, and the bruised herb outwardly applied;
It is a special remedy for the poison of the aconites, and other poisonous herbs, as also against the stinging of any venomous creature.
The juice thereof in wine, helps digestion, discusses wind, hinders crudities abiding in the stomach, and helps the difficulty of making water, the biting of venomous serpents, and stinging of the scorpion, if the herb be also outwardly applied to the place, and is very good against all other poisons.
It is under the dominion of the Sun, and if it were used, it would be found as great a strengthener of the heart, and cherisher of the vital spirits as grows, relieving the body against fainting and swoonings, fortifying it against poison and pestilence, defending the heart against the noisome vapours of the spleen.
the leaves or berries hereof are effectual to expel poison of all sorts, especially that of the aconites;
The decoction of the flowers and hops, do help to expel poison that any one hath drank.
It is given to women to bring down their courses, to expel the after-birth, and to them that have taken poison, or are stung or bitten by venemous serpents.
The berries are hot in the third degree, and dry but in the first, being a most admirable counter-poison, and as great a resister of the pestilence, as any growing;
It resists poison, putrefaction, and heals the biting of venomous beasts:
eases all inward gripings and pains, dissolves wind, and resists poison and infection.
And Dioscorides saith, The decoction of the roots and leaves helps all sorts of poison, so as the poison be presently voided by vomit.
It is of a rare quality against all sorts of cold poison, to be taken as there is cause;
It is also profitable against the poison of venomous creatures.
It is an especial ingredient in mithridate and treacle, being of itself an antidote resisting poison, venom and putrefaction.
Aries claims something to do with it, therefore it strengthens the heart, and resists poison.
Half a dram, or a dram at most, in powder of the roots hereof taken in wine and vinegar, of each equal parts, and the party laid presently to sweat thereupon, is held to be a sovereign remedy for those that are infected with the plague, and have a sore upon them, by expelling the poison and infection, and defending the heart and spirits from danger.
half a dram, or a dram at most, of the root hereof in powder taken in wine and vinegar, of each a little quantity, and the party presently laid to sweat, is held to be a sovereign remedy for those that are infected with the plague, and have a sore upon them, by expelling the poison, and defending the heart and spirit from danger.
The seed is used to cure the biting of serpents, the scorpion, and the shrew mouse, and other poisons, and expels worms, and other noisome creatures that breed in the belly.
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Both roots and seeds, as well as the herb, are held powerful to resist the poison of the scorpion.
The same taken in wine is an antidote, or counter-poison against all deadly poison, and drives away serpents and other venomous creatures;
It expels poison much, resists pestilential fevers, being exceeding good also for tertian agues:
The berries are very effectual against all poison of venomous creatures, and the sting of wasps and bees;
the berries of the flowers are a powerful remedy against the poison of the most venomous serpents;
if the powder thereof be taken in wine, it also resists the force of any other poison.
The seed is held to be a special remedy against poison and venom.
The acorn in powder taken in wine, provokes urine, and resists the poison of venomous creatures.
A dram of the powder taken in wine is a wonderful good help against the biting and poison of an adder.
To take the crude juice of Quinces, is held a preservative against the force of deadly poison;
If they be taken with onions, salt, and honey, they help the biting of a mad dog, or the venom or infectious poison of any beast, &c.
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.
as also against poison, or poisonous herbs.
They also resist poison, and bitings of venomous beasts.
They are under the dominion of the Moon, and by antipathy to Mars expel poison;
it cleanses the body of choler, expels poison, and remedies the infirmities of the spleen;
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850