Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician

Agrimony to yarrow: Nicholas Culpeper's outlaw herbal gave every English family the apothecary's secrets — each plant with its government, its virtues, and the diseases it was trusted to cure.

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Madwort

Place. It is often sown in gardens. The seed comes from Italy. Time. It flowers and flourishes in May; the seed is ripe in August. Qualities and virtues. It is dry, digesting, and scouring. It healeth the bite of a mad dog, the morphew, sun-burning, &c. It also heals wounds inwardly and outwardly, cancers, and filthy ulcers; and digesteth clotted blood.

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