The Complete Herbal / To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic.

by Nicholas Culpeper

FOR THE NOSE, AND ITS INFIRMITIES.

15. For Polypus; or a fleshy substance growing in the Nose.

Take the juice of Ivy, and make a tent with a little cotton, the which dip in the juice and put it up in the nostril.

16. To cleanse the Nose.

Snuff up the juice of red Beet-root; it will cleanse not only the nose, but also the head, this is a singular remedy for such as are troubled with hard congealed stuff in their nostrils.

17. For bleeding at the Nose.

Bind the arms and legs as hard as you can with a piece of tape-ribboning; that, perhaps, may call back the blood.

18. For a Canker in the Nose.

Boil strong ale till it be thick, if the Canker be in the outside of the nose, spread it as a plaster, and apply it; if in the inside, make a tent of a linen rag, and put it up the nostril.

19. Another for the Polypus.

The water of Adder’s-tongue snuffed up the nose, is very good: but it were better, in my opinion, to keep a rag continually moistened with it in the nose.

20. For bleeding at the Nose.

Take Amber and bruise into gross powder, put it upon a chafing-dish of coals, and receive the smoke up into the nose with a funnel.

21. Another.

When no other means will stop the bleeding at the nose, it has been known that it hath been stopped by opening a vein in the ear.