Mulberry · vehicle not stated

Original passage

The Mulberry¹ is of different parts; the ripe Berries² by reason of their Sweetness and slippery moisture, opening the Belly, and the unripe binding it, especially when they are dried³, and then they are good to stay Fluxes, Lasks, and the abundance of Womens Courses. The Bark of the Root killeth the broad Worms in the Body. The Juyce, or the Syrup made of the Juyce of the Berries, helpeth all Inflamations and Sores in the Mouth or Throat, and the Pallet of the Mouth when it is fallen down. The Juyce of the Leavs is a Remedy against the biting of Serpents, and for those that have taken Aconite: The Leavs beaten with Vinegar is good to lay on any place that is burnt with fire. A Decoction made of the Bark and Leavs, is good to wash the Mouth and Teeth when they ach. If the Root be a little slit or cut, and a smal hole made in the ground next thereunto, in the Harvest time, it will give out a certain Juyce, which being hardned, the next day is of good use to help the Toothach, to dissolve Knots, and purge the Belly: The Leavs of Mulberries are said to stay bleeding at Mouth or Nose, or the Bleeding of the Piles, or of a Wound being bound unto the places. A Branch of the Tree taken when the Moon is at the full and bound to the Wrist of a Womans Arm whose Courses come down too much doth stay them in a short space.

Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation (1652 edition) · Entry “The Mulberry-Tree.” · vertues and use · lines 12989–13022 · passage culpeper-1652:herbal:the-mulberry-tree:005