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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Ruggedwort

Description. This grows like the marsh rugwort; the flowers are large and yellow in some, and in others paler and moderately small. The stalk is two feet high, upright, and divided into many branches.

Place. It is common upon salt marshes in Lincolnshire. Time. It flowers in July.

Government and virtues. It is under the Moon. The juice taken in wine, or the decoction drank morning and evening, helps the jaundice, but all other drink must be avoided for three hours after the dose is taken. Added to centaury and succory, it helps the dropsy and the diseases of the spleen. It is also good for inward bleeding and the bloody-flux, and it is a good wound-herb.

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