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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
The temperature of all these differ either 
very little or not at all from the herbs. 
The way of using the flowers I did for- 
bear, because most of them may, and are 
usually made into conserves, of which you 
may take the quantity of a nutmeg in the 
morning; all of them may be kept dry a 
year, and boiled with other herbs conducing 
to the cures they do. 
See 
' FRUITS AND THEIR BUDS. 
Green Figs, are held to be of ill juice, 
but the best is, we are not much troubled 
with them in England; dry figs help coughs, 
cleanse the breast, and help infirmities of 
the lungs, shortness of wind, they loose the 
belly, purge the reins, help inflammations 
of the liver and spleen; outwardly they dis- 
solve swellings. 
Pine-nuts, restore such as are in con- 
sumptions, amend the failings of the lungs, 
concoct flegm, and yet are naught for such 
as are troubled with the head-ache. 
Dates, are binding, stop eating ulcers 
being applied to them; they are very good 
for weak stomachs, for they soon digest, 
‘and breed good nourishment, they help in- 
firmities of the reins, bladder, and womb. 
Sebestens, cool choler, violent heat of the 
stomach, help roughness of the tongue and 
wind-pipe, cool the reins and bladder. 
Raisins of the Sun, help infirmities of the 
breast and liver, restore consumptions, 
gently cleanse and move to stool. 
Walnuts, kill worms, resist the pestilence, 
(I mean the green ones, not the dry.) 
Capers eaten before meals, provoke 
hunger. 
Nutmegs, strengthen the brain, stomach, 
and liver, provoke urine, ease the pains of 
the spleen, stop looseness, ease pains of the 
head, and pains in the joints, strengthen the 
_ body, take away weakness coming of cold, 
Cloves, help digestion, stop looseness, 
provoke lust, and quicken the sight. 
Pepper, binds, expels wind, helps the 
cholic, quickens digestion oppressed with 
cold, heats the stomach. 
Quinces. See the Compositions. 
Pears are grateful to the stomach, dry- 
ing, and therefore help fluxes. 
All plums that are sharp or sour, are 
binding, the sweet are loosening. 
Cucumbers, cool the stomach, and are 
good against ulcers in the bladder. 
Galls, are exceeding binding, help ulcers 
in the mouth, wasting of the gums, ease the 
pains of the teeth, help the falling out of 
the womb and fundament, make the hair 
black. 
Pompions are a cold and moist fruit, of 
small nourishment, they provoke urine, out- 
wardly applied; the flesh of them helps in- 
flammations and burnings; applied to the 
forehead they help inflammations of the eyes. 
Melons, have few other virtues. 
Apricots, are very grateful to the 
stomach, and dry up the humours thereof. 
Peaches are held to do the like. 
Cubebs, are hot and dry in the third de- 
gree, they expel wind, and cleanse the 
stomach of tough and viscous humours, they 
ease the pains of the spleen, and help cold 
diseases of the womb, they cleanse the head 
of flegm and strengthen the brain, they heat 
the stomach and provoke venery. 
Bitter Almonds, are hot in the first de- 
gree and dry in the second, they cleanse and 
cut thick humours, cleanse the lungs; and 
eaten every morning, they are held to pre 
serve from drunkenness. 
Bay-berries, heat, expel wind, mitigate 
-] pain; are excellent for cold infirmities of 
the womb, and dropsies. 
Cherries, are of different qualities a~ 
cording to their different taste, the sweet 
are quickest of digestion, but the sour 4t© 
more pleasing to a hot stomach, and procure 
| appetite to one’s meat. 
