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Medlars, are strengthening to the 
stomach, binding, and the green are more 
binding than the rotten, and the dry than 
the green. 
Olives, cool and bind. 
English-currants, cool the somach, and 
are profitable in acute fevers, they quench 
thirst, resist vomiting, cool the heat of 
choler, provoke appetite, and are good for 
hot complexions. 
Services, or Chockers are of the nature of 
Medlars, but something weaker in opera- 
tion. 
Barberries, quench thirst, cool the heat 
of choler, resist the pestilence, stay vomit- 
ing and fluxes, stop the menses, kill worms, 
help spitting of blood, fasten the teeth, and 
strengthen the gums. 
Strawberries, cool the stomach, liver, and 
blood, but are very hurtful for such as have 
agues. 
Winter-Cherries, potently provoke urine, 
and break the stone. 
Cassia-fistula, is temperate in quality, 
gently purgeth choler and flegm, clarifies 
the blood, resists fevers, cleanses the breast 
and lungs, it cools the reins, and thereby 
resists the breeding of the stone, it provokes 
urine, and therefore is exceeding good for 
the running of the reins in men, and the 
Fluor Albus in women. 
All the sorts or Myrobalans, purge the 
stomach; the Indian Myrobalans, are held 
to purge melancholy most especially, the 
other flegm; yet take heed you use them 
not in stoppings of the bowels: they are 
cold and dry, they all strengthen the heart, 
brain, and sinews, strengthen the stomach, 
relieve the senses, take away tremblings and 
heart-qualms. They are seldom used alone. 
Prunes, are cooling and loosening. 
Tamarinds, are cold and dry in the sec- 
ond degree, they purge choler, cool the 
blood, stay vomiting, help the yellow jaun- 
dice, quench thirst, cool hot stomachs, and 
hot livers. 
_ I omit the use of these also as resting 
confident a child of three years old, if you 
should give it Raisins of the sun or Cherries, 
would not ask how it should take them. 
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SEEDS OR GRAINS. 
Coriander seed, hot and dry, expels wind, 
but is hurtful to the head; sends up un- 
wholesome vapours to the brain, dangerous 
for mad people. 
Fenugreek seeds, are of a softening, dis- 
cussing nature, they cease inflammations, 
be they internal or external: bruised and 
mixed with vinegar they ease the pains of 
the spleen: being applied to the sides, help 
hardness and swellings of the matrix, being 
boiled, the decoction helps scabby heads. 
Lin-seed hath the same virtues with 
Fenugreek. 
Gromwell seed, provokes urine, helps the 
cholic, breaks the stone, and expels wind. 
Boil them in white wine; but bruise them 
first. 
Lupines, ease the pains of the spleen, 
kill worms and cast them out: outwardly 
they cleanse filthy ulcers, and gangrenes, 
help scabs, itch, and inflammations. 
Dill seed, encreases milk in nurses, ex- 
pels wind, stays vomitings, provokes urine; 
yet it dulls the sight, and is an enemy to 
generation. 
Smallage seed, provokes urine and the 
menses, expels wind, resists poison, and 
eases inward pains, it opens stoppings in 
any part of the body, yet it is hurtful for 
such as have the falling-sickness, and for 
pregnant women. 
Rocket seed, provokes urine, stirs up lust, 
encreases seed, kills worms, eases pains of 
the spleen. Use all these in like manner. 
Basil seed: If we may believe Diosco-— 
rides and Crescentius, cheers the heart, and 
strengthens a moist stomach, drives aed 
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