Of Beets

Beet is either white or red; the leaves of the former are used, and the root of the latter: They both are said to promote urine, loosen the belly, increase milk, purify the blood, and open obstruc-tion. However, they are not easy of digestion, and are a little windy. The juice snuffed up the nose, causes sneezing, and by purging the head of watry humours, cures defluxions,and the head-ach.

Of Borage And Bugloss

Borrage is a temperate herb, and yet it is cordial' chears the spirits, and drives away melancholy It cleanses the blood, renders it more fluid, opens obstructions, promotes urine, and helps expectoration. It is good in all internal heats, which tend to an inflammation, in the palpitation of the heart, cachexy,and suppression of the monthly courses from thick humours, when hotter medicines would do harm. Bugloss is astringent, and good in all sorts of bleedings, spitting of blood, the bloody flux, and the whites in women. As also in bruises, falls, internal wounds, and ulcers. These herbs are generally mixt together to put into a cool tankard.

Of Mint

Mint is of several sorts, but but they have all the same general virtues. They are of excellent use to restore the faculties of the stomach, to help digestion, to flop vomiting, and to prevent any thing from rising after'it is eaten. They are use-ful to promote urine, to ease the wind colic, to open obstructions of the bowels, and consequently they strengthen the heart, brain, and nerves.

Of Sorrel

Sorrel is acid, cooling, restrains commotions of the blood, and renders it less fluid; whence it abates the heat of the bowels, corrects choler, quenches thirst, whets the appetite, and refills putrefaction. It is also useful in fevers, especially of the pestilential sort. It makes a very useful sauce in hot seasons, and agrees best with persons of a hot constitution.

Of Burnet

This is a sallad herb, but is not very easy of digestion, especiaily if eaten in too large a quantity. It is good against the gravel, and is very serviceable against bleedings of every kind : for which purpose it may be given in decoctions or powder, after it has been dried in the shade.

Of Parsely

The leaves and roots of it are in use; the chief virtues are to open obstructions of the bowels, to promote urine, to cleanse the kidneys, and to dis-cuss wind. They have a tendency to promote wo-mens monthly courses, and to drive back the milk, the leaves being bruised, and laid to the breads. The free use of it causes disorders of the head, unless the constitution, is cold and phlegmatic.

Of Tarragon

The chief use of tarragon in sallads, is to cor-ect the coldness of other herbs. It agrees well enough with those that have a cold stomach, for it is very hot, and by that means excites the appetite, disperses wind, opens obstructions, promotes urine and the menses; being chew'd, it provokes spittle like like pelitory of Spain, by which it cures the tooth-ach, and purges a moid brain. Those who have hot bilious constitutions must use it very sparingly.