Roots

College.] Sorrel, Calamus Aromatic us, Water-flag, Privet, Garlick, Marsh-mallows, Alcanet, Angelica, Anthora, Smallage, Aron, Birth-wort long and round, Sowbread, Reeds, Asarabacca, Virgin i an Snakeweed, Swall-wort, Asparagus, Asphodel, male and female. Burdocks great and small, Behen, or Bazil, Valerian, white and red. Daisies, Beets, white, red, and black. Marsh-mallows , Bistort, Barrage, Briony, white and black, Buglo , garden and wild. Calamus Aromatic us , Our Lady’s thistles, Avens, Coleworts, Centaury the le . Onions, Chameleon, white and black. Celandine, Pilewort, China, Succory, Artichokes. Virgin i an Snakeroot , Comfry greater and le er. Contra yerva, Costus, sweet and bitter. Turme rick, wild Cucumbers, Sowbread, Hound’s-tongue, Cypres, long and round. Toothwort, white Dittany, Doronicum, Dragons, Woody Nightshade, Vipers Buglo , Smallage , Hellebore, white and black, Endive, Elicampane, Eringo, Colt’s-foot, Fearn, male and female, Filipendula or Drop-wort, Fennel, white Dittany , Galanga, great and small, Gentian, Liquorice, Dog-gra , Hermodactils. Swallow wort , Jacinth, Henbane, Jallap, Master-wort, Orris or Flower-de-luce, both English and Florentine, sharp pointed Dock, Burdock greater and le er, Lovage, Privet, white Lilies, Liquorice, Mallows, Me cho a can, Jallap, Spignel, Mercury, Devil’s bit, sweet Navew, Spikenard, Celtic and Indian, Water lilies, Rest-harrow, sharp pointed Dock, Peony, male and female. Parsnips, garden and wild, Cinquefoil, Butter-Bur, Parsley, Hog’s Fennel, Valerian, greater and le er, Burnet, Land and Water Plantain, Poly podium of the Oak, Solomon’s Seal, Leeks, Pellitory of Spain, Cinquefoil, Turnips, Rad dishes, garden and wild, Rhapontick, common Rhubarb, Monk’s Rhubarb, Rose Root, Madder Bruscus. Sopewort, Sarsaparilla, Satyr i on, male and female, White Saxifrage, Squills, Figwort, Scorzonera, English and Spanish, Virgin i an Snake weed, Solomon’s Seal, Cicers, stinking Gladon, Devil’s bit, Dandelion, Thapsus, Tormentil, Turbith, Colt’s-foot, Valerian, greater and le er, Vervain, Swallow-wort, Nettles, Zedoary long and round, Ginger. Culpeper. ] These be the roots the college hath named, and but only named, and in this order I have set them down. It seems the college holds a strange opinion, viz. That it would do an English man a mischief to know what the herbs in his garden are good for. But my opinion is, that those herbs, roots, plants, . which grow near a man, are far better and more congruous to his nature than any outlandish rubbish whatsoever, and this I am able to give a reason of to any that shall demand it of me, therefore I am so copious in handling of them, you shall observe them ranked in this order. 1. The temperature of the roots, herbs, flowers, . viz. Hot, cold, dry, moist, together with the degree of each quality. 2. What part of the body each root, herb, flower, is appropriated to, viz. head, throat, breast, heart, stomach, liver, spleen, bowels, reins, bladder, womb, joints, and in those which heat those places, and which cool them. 3. The property of each simple, as they bind, open, mollify, harden, extenuate, discu , draw out, suppure, cleanse, glutinate, break wind, breed seed, provoke or stop the menses, resist poison, abate swellings, ease pain. This I intend shall be my general method throughout the simples, which, having finished I shall give you a paraphrase explaining these terms, which rightly considered, will be the key of Galen’s way of administering physic.