Stone-crop

Stone-crop is a kind of house-leek, growing upon stone walls, mud walls, the tiles of houses, and amongst rubbish, and gravelly places. It grows with trailing branches upon the ground, set with many thick, flat, roundish, whitish green leaves, pointed at the ends. The yellow flowers stand together, rather loosely. The roots arc small, and creep under the ground.

It is astringent, and good to stay deafluxions, especially such as fall upon the eyes. It stops bleeding, both inward and outward, tends to cure cancers, and fretating sores and ulcers. It abates the heat of the bile, and preavents diseases arising from bilious humours. It expels poison, prevents fevers, and tertian agues, the decoction of it being used. It is so harmless an herb, you can scarcely use it amiss. The leaves bruised, and applied to scrofulous sores, and the piles, is an effectual cure.