Angelica

The root of garden Angelica is a singular remedy against poison, and against the plague, and all infections taken by evil and corrupt air; if you do but take a piece of the root and hold it in your mouth, or chew the same between your teeth, it doth most certainly drive away the pestilential air, yea although the corrupt air have possessed the heart, yet it driveth it out again by urine and sweat, as Rue and Treacle.…

Angelica is an enemy to poisons: it cureth pestilent diseases if it be used in season: a dram weight of the powder hereof is given with thin wine.…

The decoction of the root made in wine, is good against the cold shivering of agues.

It is reported that the root is available against witchcraft and enchantments, if a man carry the same about them.…

It attenuateth and maketh thin, gross and tough phlegm: the root being used green, and while it is full of juice, helpeth them that be asthmatic, dissolving and expectorating the stuffings therein, by cutting off and cleansing the parts affected.…

It is a most singular medicine against surfeiting and loathsomeness to meat: it helpeth concoction in the stomach, and is right beneficial to the heart: it cureth the biting of mad dogs, and all other venomous beasts.

Gerard, p. 1001.

Treacle: Old Pharm. A medicinal compound, orig. a kind of salve, composed of many ingredients, formerly in repute as an alexipharmic against and antidote to venomous bites, poisons generally, and malignant diseases. Oxford English Dictionary

Woodville, A supplement to Medical botany, p. 265. Courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden.