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Medlars,are strengthening to the stomach, j confident a child of three years old, it' you 

 inding, and the green are more binding should give it Raisins of the sun or Cherries, 



bind 



than the rotten, and the dry than the green. 



Olives, cool and bind. 



English-currants, cool the stomach, and 

 are profitable in acute fevers, they quench 

 thirst, resist vomiting, cool the heat of 



would not ask how it should take them. 



SEEDS OR GRAINS. 



choler, provoke appetite, and are good for | Coriander seed, hot and dry, expels wind, 

 hot complexions. | but is hurtful to the head ; sends up un- 



Services, or Checkers are of the nature of! wholesome vapours to the brain, dangerous 

 Medlars, but something weaker in opera- 1 for mad people, 

 tion. Fern/greek seeds, are of a softening, dis- 



Barbcrries, quench thirst, cool the heat | cussing nature, they cease inflammations, 

 of choler, resist the pestilence, stay vomiting | be they internal or external: bruised and 

 and fluxes, stop the menses, kill worms, j mixed with vinegar they ease the pains of 

 help spitting of blood, fasten the teeth, and ! the spleen : being applied to tl.e sides, 



strengthen the gums. 



Strawberries, cool the stomach, liver, and 



help hardness and swellings of the matrix, 

 being boiled, the decoction helps scabby 



blood, but are very hurtful for such as have I heads. 



agues. j Lin-seed hath the same virtues with Fenu- 



Winter-Cherries, potently provoke urine, j greek, 

 and break the stone. Gromwett seed, provokes urine, helps the 



Cassia-fatula, is temperate in quality, ; cholic, breaks the stone, and expels wind, 

 gently purgeth choler and flegm, clarifies Boil them in white wine ; but bruise them 

 the blood, resists fevers, cleanses the breast first. 



and lungs, it cools the reins, and thereby j Lupines, ease the pains of the spleen, 

 resists the breeding of the stone, it provokes ! kill worms and cast them out: outwardly, 

 urine, and therefore is exceeding good for j they cleanse filthy ulcers, and gangrenes, 

 the running of the reins in men, and the? help scabs, itch, and inflammations. 

 Fluor Albus in women. Dill seed, encreases milk in nurses, expels 



All the sorts or Myrobalans, purge the { wind, stays vomitings, provokes urine ; yet 

 stomach; the Indian Myrobalans, are held j it dulls the sight, and is an enemy to genc- 

 to purge melancholy most especially, the j ration. 



other flegm ; yet take heed you use them i Smallage seed, provokes urine and the 

 not in stoppings of the bowels : they are j menses, expels wind, resists poison, and 



cold and dry, they all strengthen the heart, 

 brain, and sinews, strengthen the stomach, 

 relieve the senses, take away tremblings 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 



heart-qualms. They are seldom used alone, j pregnant women. 



Prunes, are cooling and loosening. Rocket seed, provokes urine, stirs up lust, 



Tamarinds, are cold and dry in the second \ encreases seed, kills worms, eases pains of 

 degree, they purge choler, cool the blood, | the spleen. Use all these in like manner, 

 stay vomiting, help the yellow jaundice, j Basil seed : If we may believe Diosco 

 quench thirst, cool hot stomachs, and hot \ rides and Crescentius, cheers the heart, and 

 livers. j strengthens a moist stomach, drives away 



I omit the use of these also as resting * melancholy, and provokes urine. 



