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Show 234 Theatrum Botanicum. CHAP.33. Tripe x owneproper Broome, have thelike qualities, and may be conduciblefor the fame difeafes, but a one : exiftence, fome being weaker or ftronger than other. The Spanife Broome over and above the oe Setfede as alfo to purge downewards and to provoke vomits, efpecially the feede taken to the ETETE a wee in mead or honied water, purgeth by vomitasHellebor doth, without trouble or danger ; the flowers thereof | o f the young reare egge, or the juyce ina ‘ or thet pouder of thenrtaken ; i ji young branches de and drunke, d i gate fefting, ie ‘iit the Kings evilland the hippe goute, andan oximell made of them and thefeed, often ufed,breaketh ‘and healeth all impoftumesof the Spleene, by caufing the corrupt matter to void it {elfe upwards often, and drawerh alfo flegme and raw humors trom the joynts. CuaPp, XXXITI, CuaP33. <3 diftinguifhed inwardly into many skinny wood-like partitions: on both fides of whichpartitions grow a foft blacke fubftance like unto.hony and very {weete ; whichis that part onely that is to be ufed,and no part thereof elfe befide : betweene thefe cells or partitions lie round andflat griftly feed, ofadarke brownish colour; very like unto the feede of the Carob tree: the rootes are great, and grow deepe inthe ground : the choife of the beft cods or canes, is that they be moift within,arid that the feeds doe not rattle whenthey are fhaken, 2, Cafsiafolutiva Brafiiana, Purging Cafsia of Bra(sill, Thereis anotherfort of (4/sia, that hath beene brought tromBra/sil, whichdiffereth not much from the former,either in the formeofthe treeorfruite; for the tree it felfe groweth (as by relation it is affirmed) great, and hath fa¢h like winged leaves asthe former hath : the fruit onely or chiefely differeth from the other jn this, thatic is about two foote long,(efpecially fuch as we have feene) and more than twoinches broad, and about an and againftit are greater and moreeminent, and the feedelying inthe cells, larger and flatter alfo, the pulpe or sm N former times there was onely onefort of purging Ca/iia knowne, but there hath beenéfincé broughtto our knowledge another, whereof I meaneto give you the relation in this place, $ 1, Cafsia(olutiva vulgaris, The ordinary purgin Cafsia, The purging Ca/sia treegroweth in 4/firia about Babylon, andin the Prdies to bea wonderfull greattree, {preading both in height and breadth very mach, butin e4rabia, Ecypt and Jtaly much ng to bea tree ofa large fize or bigneffe, whofe wood is folid and firme, yellowith towards leffe, yet growing the fappe orouttide, fide, and blackifhlike Lene re¢ at the heart, covered witha eee oa afh ey ke, very likeunto the Wallnut tree ; the branches are notvery great,and butthinly ftored with winged leaves, Steereache or tenneleaves, for the moft part five ftanding on each fide ofthe (talke, withoutany odde one atthe end, each whereof is larger and longer pointed than theleayes of the Carob or {weeteBeanetree, that followethin the next Chapterto be defcribed : the flowers are yellow and large, many growing together ona long ftalke, and hanging downe fomewhat like as the Laburnam or Beane Trefolie doth, confitting of foure leaves for the molt part,or fometimes of five leaves, with many gteeni(h threads in the middle, ftanding about a{mall long crooked umbone or horne, of a very {weetefent, efpecially in the morning, before the Sunne fhine uponthem, but grow weaker in {mell, as the Sunne gtowethhotter upon them : the {mall hornein thé middle of the flower, groweth to be the pod, which while it is young is greene, but in time commethto be ofa darke purple colour, and being fuffered to growlonger, or taken at the time and kept turneblacke, being ofdivers fizesboth for length andgreatneffe, fome being {maller and fome greater, fomeafoote, orafoote and a halfe,or two foote long,with a hard round wooddy wrinkled fhell,not very thicke or very hard tobreake, with a feameas it were,orliltall the length thereof at the backe, eminent to be feene and with another {mall one a~ gainft itupon the otherfide, which eafeth it tobe eafily brokeninto two parts by the middle long wayes, and 1. Caffia folutiva vulgaris. The Thester of Plants. inch anda halfe thicke; whofe barke or outward rinde is much harder, thicker, browner and flatter than the other but with great wrinkles or furrowes croffing it, as the other hath; the feames, likewife atthe backe, Caffia folutiva, Purging Caffiz. ‘The ordinary purging Caffiae TRise 2. 2, Caffia Brafiliana, The great Calfia of Bra/if. blacke fubftance lying upon the wooddyskinnes,isas {weete as che other; but of moré force in workingby thé onehalfe at the leaft. The Place, Ths fitft growethplentifully in Egypt, but yet not naturally, forit is onely in their orchards whereit hath beene planted for it is generally held to be firft brought thithér,and to Arabia alfo, from 5syriaand Armenia, and they from the Eaft Indies : it growethalfo inthe Welt Indies, firft planted by the Spaniards in Hifpansolain fo great abundance,that from thence the moft {tore that is {pent in Europe is brought: The other groweth in Braffill, from whenceit was broughtinto thefe parts, The Time, z ; Thefirft flourifheth chiefely in Z#ne, and the fruite hanging uponthe tree all the yeare, are gathered much as boutthé time ofthe flowring : for the tree holdinghis greene leafe all the Winter, hath ufully both bloffomes and greenefriite, and ripcall as it were at one time, The other hathnot beenehitherto further defcribed or knowne. : : The Names. Cafia or Caffia isa word ofdivers fignifications, forit is eithér the Aroma of theancients, Theophrafius,Diof= corides, Galen, &c.like unto Cinamon called Caffia ligéea in the Apothecaries fhoppes, or this Caffiafistula, or elfe a fhrubbecalled Caffia poetica or (Monjpeliaca, butit is verylikely that this tree, norhis fruite was knowne to any ofthe antient Greeke Writers, unleffe as Cordus faith it might bethe Faba IndicaofAriffobulus and fomeos thers ; but the later Greeke Authors, as A@«arizs; and others fince his time, calledit 202 urawa, Caffia nigra, from the Arabians, whofirft bronght in the nfe thereof, and called it Caffia fifula; andbecaufe ic was not knowen whereelfe it did grow thenin Egypt, it wascalledby many Siliqua Egyptia, and isthought by divers that it may be the Siliqua called Ficus Egyptia by Theophraftus in his firft Booke and 18. Chapter : and of others Coaffia folutiva: the ufuall nameis Caffiafiftv/ain all Apothecaries fhoppes + but why the nameofCaffia fhould be givento this treee orhis fruite, is not eafie to know or learne: ‘Pena and Lobell in their Adverfariathinke it might come from the Greeke word 1s»; quodcoriacenm votart, becaufé the codsorcanes arelike leather ; but I verily beleeve the Arabians (and it may be thofe from whom the <Arabianshad it) called it Caffa in regard of the fweeteneffe ofthe flowers,likeunto the Cafsia aromatica or odorata; and Solomon in the 4. Chapter and 14, verfe of the Canticles; maketh mention of this Caffa tree, as Itakeit, for in the Latine Tranflation of Saint Je~ rome; 1 find it isfiftwia, which the Franflators make to bé Ca/amus in Englifh: Andit is not improbablethat the true Caffia aromatica, or odorata, wascalled Fiffula, becanfe the peeces ofthe barke were rowled together, and hollow likea pipe, even as Cinamon (which is congenor if not idem) is, which in fome countriesis called Ca wella ; and I finde that the people both in /taly and in Spaine,doecall the Caffia aromativa by the name of Canela, yet tothisday, either from the forme of Cinamon, which is like unto a pipe; or from Canna, a rede or Cane, as I thinke rather, and the diminitive thereof,is Canella a {mall Cane reede. They are much deceived that thinke the barke of the pipes or fruite of this Caffia fiffula, is of any more force than dry chippe,to proctre womens courfes, &c, as fome in former timesdid, for the erroris groffe: The otheris called by Lobel Caffia filiqua Brafis 4iana purgatrix compre{[a,whofirlt gave us the knowledge thereofin his Pharmacopea Rondcletiza, The Vertues, The innerblacke fubftancé or pulpe, clenfed fromthe fhells, feeds, and skins that grow together with them; is the onely medecinall partthatis ufed, taken byit felfe in balls, orbits, or in potions or drinkes, and is very effe€tuall to purge thereines, kidneyes and bladder, for it tempereth theheate ofthem, cleanfeth the hiimors thatlie therein, both byurine and the ftoole, and thereby giveth much eafe to thofe thar are tronbled with the ftone, if they ute it often: taken with Rubarbe and a few Annifeed and Licoris to correct the windineffe thereof, itis an ef{peciall good medecine in gonorrhea to clenfe the reines, that other helpes may be the more ayaileable afterwards, as alfo to clenfe the liver, the tomach and mefentery veines, from choller and flegme, cleareth the bloud and quencheththe heate theréof, andis therefore profitablein all hot agues : itis very effectual againtt all Rheumesand fharpe diftillations, and again{t chollericke and melancholike difeafes: it isoften ufed in all the Kindes of peétorall difeafes, as old coughes, fhortneffe of breath; wheefings, and the like, ifit be taken with Agaricke as {ome advifes it is not (0 convenientfor thofe that have moift,weakeandflippery bowells, unleffe i¢ be given with Afirobalans, Rubarbe, Spicknard, or Mafticke : elfe it maybefafely given roall forts of people; agesand conditions, and to prevent the dangeroffirch lubricitie, divers doe ufe to give it with Hiera picra; The aoe taken while they are {mall and greene, boyled little and then laid in the fhadow a while to drie, and after boyled in Suger or Hony, doth purgethe body, as the pulpe or blacke fubftance,and is a delicate medecine fit for tender and weakeftomackes, that abhorreall manner o Phificke ; and hereof the ufuall quantitie is three or foure ounces to be taken af a timefor elder perfons, and one ouncefor the younger : theufe of Caffe outwardly either in ointments or plaifters, is much commended of many for all hot pimples, and other erupti- ons inthe skinne, and alfo to eafe the pains of the gout and hot inflammations, and paines in the joynts, ve ; other ij |