Home › Contents › Campion Wild

Campion Wild

Description. The wild white campion hath many long and somewhat broad dark green leaves, lying upon the ground, and divers ribs therein, somewhat like more wrinkled bark, and much less; of a little hot and quick taste, and stronger than the parsnip, and abideth after-seed-time. Place. It is usually sown with us in gardens.

Time. They flower in June and July, and seed quickly after. Government and virtues. This is also a Mercurial plant. Carraway seed bath a moderate sharp quality, whereby it breaketh wind, and provoketh urine, which also the herb doth. The root is better food than the parsnips; it is pleasant and comfortable to the stomach and helpeth digestion. The seed is conducing to all cold griefs of the stomach, bowels, or mother; as also the wind in them. The powder of the seed put into a poultice, taketh away black and blue spots of blows and bruises. The herb itself, or with some of the seed bruised and fried, laid hot in a bag or double cloth, to the lower parts of the belly, easeth the pains of the wind cholic.

The roots of carraway eaten as men eat parsnips, strengthen the stomach of ancient people exceedingly, and they need not to make a whole meal of them neither, and are fit to be planted in every garden.

Carraway confects, once only dipped in sugar, and a spoonful of them eaten in the morning fasting, and as many after each meal, is a most admirable remedy for those that are troubled with wind.