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Of Selfe-Heale

The Description. 1 PRunell or Brunell hath square hairie stalks of a foot high, beset with long hairy and sharp pointed leaves, and at the top of the stalkes grow floures thicke set together like an eare or spiky knap, of a brown colour, mixed with blew floures and sometimes white; of which kinde I found some plants in Essex neere Heningham castle. The root is small and very threddy. The Place.

Prunell or Brunel groweth very commonly in all our fields throughout England. The Time.

These plants floure for the most part all Summer long. The Names.

Brunell is called in English, Prunel, Carpenters herb, Selfe-heale, Hook-heale, and Sicklewort.

The Vertues.

The decoction of Prunell made with wine and water, doth joine together and make whole and sound all wounds both inward and outward, even as Bugle doth. Prunel bruised with oile of roses and vineger, and laid to the forepart of the head, swageth and helpeth the pain and aking thereof. To be short, it serveth for the same that Bugle doth, and in the world there are not two better wound herbs, as hath bin often proved.