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

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

 than the rotten, and the dry than the green. | would not ask how it should take them 



Olties, cool and bind. 



English-currants, cool the stomach, and 

 are profitable in acute fevers, they quench 

 thirst, resist vomiting, cool the heat 01 



SEEDS OR GRAINS. 



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

 hot complexions. j 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. Fenugreek seeds, are of a softening, dis- 



Barberries, 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, i mixed with vinegar they ease the pains of 

 hdp spitting of blood, fasten the teeth, and 5 the spleen : being applied to the sides, 

 strengthen the gums. help hardness and swellings of the matrix, 



Strawberries, cool the stomach, liver, and being boiled, the decoction helps scabby 

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

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



Winter-Cherries, potently provoke urine, [ greek. 



and break the stone. 



Cassia-fatula, 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 

 Jiot in stoppings of the bowels : they are 

 coid and dry, they all strengthen the heart, 

 brain, and sinews, strengthen the'stomach, 



Cromwell seed, provokes urine, helps the 

 cholic eaks 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, expels 

 wind, stays vomitings, provokes urine ; yet 

 it dulls the sight, and is an. enemy to gene- 

 ration. 



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 



relieve the senses, take away tremblings and such as have the falling-sickness, and for 

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



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



Tamarinds, are cold and dry in the second | encreases seed, kills worms, eases pains oi 



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



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



quench thirst, cool hot stomachs, and hotjnV/es 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. 



