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CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

 

GOUT-HERB

Names. This herb is also frequently called herb gerrard.

Description. It is a low herb, seldom rising half a yard high, having sundry leaves standing on brownish green stalks by three, snipped about, and of a strong unpleasant savour. The umbels of the flowers are white, and the seed blackish, the root runs in the ground, quickly taking a great deal of room.

Place. It grows by hedge and wallsides, and often in the border and corner of fields, and in gardens also.

Time. It flowers and seeds about the end of July.

Government and virtues. Saturn rules it. Neither is it to be supposed Gout-wort hath its name for nothing but upon experiment to heal the gout and sciatica; as also joint-aches, and other cold griefs. The very bearing of it about one eases the pains of the gout, and defends him that bears it from the disease.


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