Being eaten as Dioscoridcs saith, boilcd with Periwinkles, it maketh the body soluble, doing it by a kinde of clensing facultie: it also provoketh urine,and cxpclleth stones out of the kidnies
:being boiled with barly cream it is thought to bring up tough humors that sticke in the chest
Being stamped, and the juice put up into the nostrils, it stoppcth the bleeding of the nose: thejuice is good against the inflammation of the uvula.
The feed of Nettle stirrcth up lust,especially drunke with Cute: for (saith Galen) it hath in it a certaine windinesse.
It concocteth and draweth out of the chest draw humors.
It is good for them that cannot breathe unlesse they hold their necks upright,and for those that have the pleurisic,and for such as be (sick of the inflammation of the lungs, if it be taken in a looch
or os. licking medicine ;and also against the troublesome cough that children have, called the Chincough.
Nicander affirmeth,that it is a remedie against the venomous qualitie of Hemlocke, Mushroms,and Quicksilver.
And Appollodorus saith that it is a counter poison for Henbane,Serpents,and Scorpions,
Pliny saitb, the fame Author writetb, that the oile of it takes away the sting that the Nettle itselfe maketh.
The same grossely powned and drunke in White wine, is a most singular medicine against the stone either in the bladder or reins,as hath bin often proved,to the great ease and comfort of those that have been grieuously tormented with that maladie.
It expelleth grauell, and provoketb urine.
The leaves or seeds of any kinde of Nettle do work the like effect, but not with that good speed and so assured as the Roman Nettle.
