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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 
Spikenard, Squills prepared, Diacrydium 
of each one dram, Aloes, Thyme, German- 
der, Cassia Lignea, Bdellum, Horehound, 
of each one scruple and fourteen grains, 
Cinnamon, Oppopanax, Castorium, long 
Birthwort, the three sorts of Pepper, Saga- 
pen, Saffron, Parsley of each two drams, 
Hellebore black and white, of each six 
grains, clarified Honey a pound and a half, 
mix them, and make of them an electuary 
according to art. Let the species be kept 
dry in your shops. 
Culpeper.] It takes away by the roots 
daily evils coming of melancholy, falling- 
sickness, vertigo, convulsions, megrim, lep- 
rosies, and many other infirmities; for my 
part I should be loth to take it inwardly 
unless upon desperate occasions, or in clys- 
ters. It may well take away diseases by the 
roots, if it takes away life and all. 
Hiera Diacolocynthidos. 
College.| Take of Colocynthis, Agarick, 
Germander, white Horehound, Steechas, of 
- each ten drams, Opopanax, Sagapen, Pars- 
ley seeds, round Birthwort roots, white 
Pepper of each five drams, Spikenard, Cin- 
namon, Myrrh, Indian leaf or Mace, Saf- 
fron, of each four drams, bruise the Gums 
in a mortar, sift the rest, and with three 
pounds of clarified honey, three ounces and 
five drams, make it into an electuary ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.| It helps the falling-sickness, 
‘madness, and the pain in the head called 
Kephalalgia, pains in the breast and stom- 
ach whether they come by sickness or 
bruises, pains in the loins or back-bone, 
hardness of women’s breasts, putrefaction 
of meat in the stomach, and sour belchings. 
It is but used seldom and therefore hard 
: to be gotten. 
Rng Triphera the greater. 
~ College.] Take of Myrobalans, Chebs, 
; Bellericks, Inds and Emblicks, Nutmegs, 
: of each five drams, Water-cress seeds, 
cca Toots, Persian — os 
else Dittany of Crete, black Pepper, Oli- 
banum, Ammi, Ginger, Tamarisk, Indian 
Nard, Squinanth, Cypress roots of each 
half an ounce, filings of steel prepared with 
Vinegar twenty drams, let the Myrobalans 
be roasted with fresh butter, let the rest, be- 
ing powdered, be sprinkled with oil of 
sweet Almonds, then add Musk one dram, 
and with their treble weight in Honey, 
make it into an electuary according to art. 
Culpeper.| It helps the immoderate 
flowing of the menses in women, and the 
hemorrhoids in men, it helps weakness of 
the stomach, and restores colour lost, it 
frees the body from crude humours, and 
strengthens the bladder, helps melancholy, 
and rectifies the distempers of the spleen. 
You may take a dram in the morning, or 
two if your body be any thing strong. 
Triphera solutive. 
College.| Take of Diacrydium, ten 
drams, Turbith, an ounce and an half, 
Cardamoms the less, Cloves, Cinnamon, 
Honey, of each three drams, yellow San- 
ders, Liquorice, sweet Fennel seeds, of 
each half an ounce, Acorns, Scheenanth, 
of each a dram, red Roses, Citron pills 
preserved, of each three drams, Violets two 
drams, Penids four ounces, white Sugar 
half a pound, Honey clarified in juice of 
Apples one pound, make an electuary ac- 
cording to art. 
Culpeper.] The Diacrydium and Tur- 
bith, are a couple of untoward purges, the 
rest are all cordials. 
Athanasia Mithridatis. Galen. 
College.| Take of Cinnamon, Cassia, 
Scheenanth, of each an ounce and an half, 
Saffron, Myrrh, of each one ounce, Costus, 
Spignel, (Meum,) Acorus, (Water-flag 
perhaps they mean. See the root in the 
Catalogue of Simples,) Agarick, Scordium, 
Carrots, Parsley, of each half an ounce, 
white Pepper eleven grains, Honey so much 
as is sufficient to make it into an seunimerth 
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