nguisheth seed; poppy causeth sleep,
cabbage resisteth drunkenness, &c., and that which is more to be admired,
that such and such plants should have a peculiar virtue to such particular
parts, [4124]as to the head aniseeds, foalfoot, betony, calamint,
eye-bright, lavender, bays, roses, rue, sage, marjoram, peony, &c. For the
lungs calamint, liquorice, ennula campana, hyssop, horehound, water
germander, &c. For the heart, borage, bugloss, saffron, balm, basil,
rosemary, violet, roses, &c. For the stomach, wormwood, mints, betony,
balm, centaury, sorrel, parslan. For the liver, darthspine or camaepitis,
germander, agrimony, fennel, endive, succory, liverwort, barberries. For
the spleen, maidenhair, finger-fern, dodder of thyme, hop, the rind of ash,
betony. For the kidneys, grumel, parsley, saxifrage, plaintain, mallow. For
the womb, mugwort, pennyroyal, fetherfew, savine, &c. For the joints,
camomile, St. John's wort, organ, rue, cowslips, centaury the less, &c. And
so to peculiar diseases. To this of melancholy you shall find a catalogue
of herbs proper, and that in every part. See more in Wecker, Renodeus,
Heurnius _lib. 2. cap. 19._ &c. I will briefly speak of them, as first of
alteratives, which Galen, in his third book of diseased parts, prefers
before diminutives, and Trallianus brags, that he hath done more cures on
melancholy men [4125]by moistening, than by purging of them.

_Borage_.] In this catalogue, borage and bugloss may challenge the chiefest
place, whether in substance, juice, roots, seeds, flowers, leaves,
decoctions, distilled waters, extracts, oils, &c., for such kind of herbs
be diversely varied. Bugloss is hot and moist, and therefore worthily
reckoned up amongst those herbs which expel melancholy, and [4126]
exhilarate the heart, Galen, _lib. 6. cap. 80. de simpl. med._ Dioscorides,
_lib. 4. cap. 123._ Pliny much magnifies this plant. It may be diversely
used; as in broth, in [4127]wine, in conserves, syrups, &c. It is an
excellent cordial, and against this malady most frequently prescribed; a
herb indeed of such sovereignty, that as Diodorus, _lib. 7. bibl._ Plinius,
_lib. 25. cap. 2. et lib. 21. cap. 22._ Plutarch, _sympos. lib. 1. cap. 1._
Dioscorides, _lib. 5. cap. 40._ Caelius, _lib. 19. c. 3._ suppose it was
that famous Nepenthes of [4128]Homer, which Polydaenna, Thonis's wife (then
king of Thebes in Egypt), sent Helena for a token, of such rare virtue,
"that if taken steeped in wine, if wife a