CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

OXLIP

Description. The great oxlip seems to be an intermediate plant between the cowslip and primrose, both of which it resembles in many degrees as to its appearance, and its virtues, by analyzation, are found to be the the same.

Government and virtues. It is a plant of Venus, and is good against disorders of the nerves. The root has the principal virtue; the country people boil this in ale, and give it for giddinesses of the head, with success. The juice of the plant, mixed with veinegar, is also used to snuff up the nose against head-achs. It is less violent than the juice of the primrose root, and answers the same purpose very well.