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THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



The temperature of all these differ either! Cloves, help digestion, stop looseness, pro- 

 very little or not at all from the herbs. i voke lust, and quicken the sight 



The way of using the flowers I did for-; Pepper, binds, expels wind, helps the 

 bear, because most of them may, and arejcholic, quickens digestion oppressed with 



usually made into conserves, of which you 

 may take the quantity of a nutmeg in the 



cold, heats the stomach. 



Quinces. See the Compositions. 



morning; all of them may be kept dry a| Pears are grateful to the stomach, dry- 

 year, and boiled with other herbs conducing \ ing, and therefore help fluxes. 



to the cures they do. 



FRUITS AND THEIR BUDS. 



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 



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 \ hair black, 

 lungs, shortness of wind, they loose thej Pompiotis are a cold and moist fruit, of 

 belly, purge the reins, help inflammations $ small nourishment, they provoke urine, 

 of the liver and spleen ; outwardly they dis- \ outwardly applied ; the flesh of them helps 

 solve swellings. ! inflammations and burnings; applied to the 



forehead they help inflammations of theeyes. 

 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- 



for weak stomachs, for they soon digest, and I gree, they expel wind, and cleanse the 

 breed good nourishment, they help infir- i stomach of tough and viscous humours, they 

 mities of the reins, bladder, and womb. lease the pains of the spleen, and help cold 

 Sebestens, cool choler, violent heat of the > diseases of the womb, they cleanse the head 

 stomach, help roughness of the tongue and i of flegm and strengthen the brain, they heat 

 wind-pipe, cool the reins and bladder. the stomach and provoke venery. 



Pine-nuts, restore such as are in con- 

 sumptions, amend the failings of the lungs, 

 concoct flegm, and yet are nviught for such 

 as are troubled with the head-ache. 



Dates, are binding, stop eating ulcers 

 being applied to them ; they are very good 



Bitter Almonds, are hot in the first degree 

 and dry in the second, they cleanse and cut 

 thick humours, cleanse the lungs , and eaten 

 every morning, they are held to preserve 

 from drunkenness. 



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 

 (I mean the green ones, not the dry.) 



Capers eaten before meals, provoke hun- \ Bay-berries, heat, expel wind, mitigate 

 gcr. | pain ; are excellent for cold infirmities of 



Nutmegs^ strengthen the brain, stomach, | the womb, and dropsies, 

 and liver, provoke urine, ease the pains ofj Cherries, are of different qualities accord- 

 the spleen, stop looseness, ease pains of the | ing to their different taste, the sweet arc 

 head, and pains in the joints, strengthen the': quickest of digestion, but the sour arc more 

 body, take away weakness coining of cold,'| pleasing to a hot stomach, and procure 

 and cause a sweet breath. .j appetite to one's meat. 



