Culpeper's English Family Physician or Medical Herbal Enlarged.

GENERAL RULES TO KNOW UNDER WHAT PLANET EVERY HERB OR PLANT IS GOVERNED, BY THE ONLY USE OF AN HERBAL THEfirft thing confiderable is, to take notice of the elemental qualities of each planet, viz. whether hot and dry, hot and moift, cold and dry, or cold and moift, and of what degrees; as firft, fecond, third, or fourth. Secondly, we muft, by an Herbal, find the nature or elemental quality of the plants; if both the planet and plant accord in elemental qualities, then it may be concluded, that fuch an herb or plant is under fuch a planet: for any true philofopher well knows, that every element naturally fympaftiizes with its own like, juft as the actions of men fympathize with the complexion and condition of that planet which has predominance over them. EXAMPLES.. I? Saturn is a planet cold and dry in die diird and fourth degrees : now by the Herbal I find, that Hemlock, Henbane, Nightfhade, and fuch like, are cold and dry in the third and fourth degrees; and therefore may be juftly attributed to the planet Saturn. If Jupiter is by nature hot and moift: now by the Herbal I find, that Borrage, Mallows, and the herb or plant called Dogftones, are by nature hot and moift; and therefore mayjuftly be attributed to Jupiter. S Mars is by nature hot and dry in the third and fourth degrees : now by the Herbal I find, that Carduus, Wormwood, Tobacco, Rhubarb, Hellebore, Box, and fuch like, are all under the dominion of Mars, as being hot and dry in the third and fourth degrees. 0 The Sun is by nature hot and dry in the firft and fecond degrees, and near to the third: now by the Herbal l find, that Angelica, Baum, Marigolds, Rue, Sweet Marjoram, and fuch kinds, are all hot and dry in the firft and fecond degrees, perhaps near to the third; and therefore are all attributed to the Sun. ? Venus is by nature cold and moift, in the firft and fecond degrees row by die Herbal I find, that Violets, Spinach, white Beets, white A a Beans,