Important: Safety Warning
This page prescribes plants as medicine according to pre-modern medical theory. Several of the plants named are toxic, correct identification is difficult, and the doses given have no scientific basis. Do not ingest or apply any preparation described here.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
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.