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

OF THE MOUTH, AND ITS DISEASES.

22. A Caution.

Whosoever would keep their mouth, or tongue, or nose, or eyes, or ears, or teeth, from pain or infirmities, let them often use sneezing, and such gargarisms as they were instructed in a preceding chapter; for, indeed, most of the infirmities, if not all, which infest those parts, proceed from rheum.

23. For extreme heat of the Mouth.

Take Rib-wort, and boil it in red Wine, and hold the decoction as warm in your mouth as you can endure it.

24. For a Canker in the Mouth.

Wash the mouth often with Verjuice.