A Decoction of Trefoil.
Take Water Trefoil dried, Ground Pine, each half an ounce; Bitter sweet 1 handful; Bay berries, Stechas flowers, each 2 drams; boil in Water 3 pints to 1 quart; towards the last, adding Juice of Rue 1 ounce, strain.
Buck Bean or Water Trefoil is really a good bitter Herb, but I have used it often, and in my Opinion, Simon Paulli (in his Quadrep. Botan.) celebrates it out of reason and beyond its Desert.
This Decoction is design'd for People troubled with the Scurvy, and the Gout, and promiseth relief in pains occasion'd by the Infirmity of the Genus Nervosum. The Dose 4 ounces three times a day.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710