Hair o’ the head, burnt clouts, chalk, merds, and clay,
Powder of bones, scalings of iron, glass,
And worlds of other strange ingredients,
Would burst a man to name?
A number of herbs, some of which were reputed to produce amatory benefits, are mentioned in Ben Jonson’s Volpone:
Lady Politic Would-Be: Alas, good soul! the passion of the heart.
Seed-Pearl were good now, boil’d with syrup of apples,
Tincture of gold, and coral, citron-pills,
Your elecampane root, myrobalances—