2295. Melilot is good in salves and ointments for swellings and inflammations. It is mollifying and cooling.
2296. Sage is the greatest restorative to human nature of any herb that grows.
2297. Bloodroot is a very powerful emetic or purge: steeped in spirits, it will serve for an emetic; and boiled in fair water it serves as a purge.
2298. Mandrake root is an excellent physic, dried and pounded.
2299. Cumfrey and Spikenard are so well known that they need no describing.