CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

SICKLE-WORT

Description. This plant has a small, stringy, fibrous root, from which spring the leaves on long foot-stalks; they are five-cornered, resembling somewhat those of the lesser maple, and are serrated about the edges, of a dark green colour, smooth, and shining; its stalks grow to be about a foot hight, bare of leaves to the top, on which grow little umbels of five-leaved white flowers, small, and full of stamina, each flower being succeeded by two rough bur-like seed.

Place. It grows in woods and thickets.

Time. It flowers in May. The leaves are used.

Government and virtues. This is one of our prime vulnerary plants, being frequently put in wound-drinks, and traumatic apuzems; and is good for ruptures, inward bruises, spitting of blood, or any hæmorrhages, and for wounds both inward and outward. It is under Venus.