240 THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



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

 very little or not at all from the herbs. : 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 arefcholic, quickens digestion oppressed with 

 usually made into conserves, of which 3 r ou|cold, heats the stomach 

 may take the quantity of a nutmeg in the j Quinces. See the Compositions. 

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

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

 to the cures they do. All plums that are sharp or sour, are 



| binding, the sweet are loosening. 



Cucumbers, cool the stomach, and are 



FRUITS AND THEIR BUDS. U ^ 1 *S ainst ulcer j > J. 6 Madder. 



Galls, are exceeding binding, help ulcers 



Green Figs, are held to be of ill juice, but 

 the best is, we are not much troubled with 



in the mouth, wasting of the gums, ease 

 the pains of the teeth, help the falling out 



them in England ; dry figs help coughs, 5 of the womb and fundament, make the 

 cleanse the breast, and help infirmities of the 5 hair black. 



lungs, shortness of wind, they loose thej Pompions 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 



Pine-nuts, restore such as are in con- 'forehead they help inflammations of theeyes. 

 sumptions, amend the failings of the lungs, \ Melons, have few other virtues, 

 concoct flegm, and yet are naught for such j Apricots, are very grateful to the stomach, 

 as are troubled with the head-ache. i and dry up the humours thereof. Peaches 



Dates, are binding, stop eating ulcers | are held to do the like. 



being applied to them ; they are very good ; Cubebs, are hot and dry in the third de- 

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

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

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



Sebcstens, 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. i the stomach and provoke venery. 



Raisins of the Sun, help infirmities of the 5 J3ilter dlmo/ids, are hot in the first degree 

 breast and liver, restore consumptions, | and dry in the second, they cleanse and cut 

 gently cleanse and move to stool. I thick humours, cieanse the lungs, and eaten 



Wabwts, kill worms, resist the pestilence J every morning, they are held to .preserve 

 (I mean the green ones, not the dry.) ' from drunkenness. 



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

 ger. ; pain ; are excellent for cold infirmities of 



Nutmegs* strengthen the brain, stomach,! the womb, and dropsies, 

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

 trie spleen, stop looseness, ease pains of the Ung 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 coming of cold. '1 pleasing to a hot stomach, and procure 

 and cause a sweet \> eath. .{appetite to one's meat. 



