300 



THE COMPLETE HERBAL 



and causes it to make good blood, and good I the fruits the seeds, and the seeds the herbs, 

 blood cannot make bad flesh. 1 commend j about a quarter of an hour ; at last, live 

 this receipt to those whose bodies are sub- pounds of water being consumed, boil the 

 ject to scabs and itch. If you please you j other three (being first strained and clari- 

 may take two ounces by itself every morn-'jfied) into a Syrup with two pounds and a 

 ing. [ half of sugar. 



Syrupus de Glycyrrhiza. Culpeper.~\ It mightily strengthens the 



Or Syrup of Liquorice. j breast and lungs, causes long wind, clears 



CollcgeJ] Take of green Liquorice, | the voice, is a good remedy against coughs, 

 scraped and bruised, two ounces, white Use it like the S3 r rup of Liquorice. 

 Maiden-hair an ounce, dryed Hyssop half? Syrupus I-vee arthritica, sive Chamfepityos. 

 an ounce, steep these in four pounds of hot ; Or Syrup of Chamepitys. 



water, after twenty-four hours, boil it till ; College.] Take of Chamepitys, two hand- 

 half be consumed, strain it, and clarify, it, j fuls, Sage, Rosemary, Poley Mountain, 

 and with Honey, Penids, and Sugar, of each j Origanum, Calaminth, wild Mints, Pennv- 

 eight ounces, make it into a Syrup, adding, i royal, Hyssop, Thyme, Rue, garden and 

 before it be perfectly boiled, red Rose; wild, Bettony, Mother of Thyme, of each u 

 Water six ounces. i handful, the roots of Acorns, Birthwort long 



Culpeper.~] It cleanses the breast and j and round, Briony, Dittany, Gentian, 



Fennel, Valerian, of each half an 

 ounce, the roots of Smallage, Asparagus, 

 Fennel, Parsley, Bruscus, of each an ounce, 

 Pellitory of Spain, an ounce and a half, 



coughs 

 take it with 



and 



lungs, and helps continual 

 pleurisies. You may take it witti a; 

 Liquorice stick, or add an ounce of it or 

 more to the Pectoral Decoction. 



Syrupus Granatorum cum Aceto ; vulgo, jStoechas, the seeds of Annis, Animi, Cara- 



Oxysaccharum simplex. ; way, Fennel, Lovage. Hartwort, of each 



Or Syrup of Pomegranates with Vinegar. ; three drarns, Raisins of the sun two ounces, 



College^] Take of white sugar a pound j boil them in ten pounds of water to four, 

 and a half, juice of Pomegranates eight j to which add honey and sugar, of each two 

 ounces, white Wine Vinegar four ounces, ; pounds, make it into a Syrup to be per- 

 boil it gently into a Syrup. \ fumed with Sugar, Nutmegs, and Cubebs, 



Culpeper.~] Look the virtues of Pome- ; of each three drams, 

 granates among the simples. Syrupus Jujulrinus. 



Syrupus de Hyssopo. Or Syrup of Jujubes. 



Or Syrup of Hyssop. College.~\ Take of Jujubes, Violets, five 



College^ Take eight pounds of Spring \ drams, Maiden-hair, Liquorice, French 

 Water, half an ounce of Barley, boil it 



about half an hour, then add the Roots of 

 Smallage, Parsley, Fennel, Liquorice, of 

 each ten drams, Jujubes, Sebestens, of each 

 fifteen, Raisins of the sun stoned, an ounce 

 and a half, Figs, Dates, of each ten, the 

 seeds of Mallows and Quinces, Gum Tra- 

 gacanth tied up in a rag, of each three 

 drams, Hyssop meanly dryed, ten drams, 

 Maiden-hair six drams, boil them together, 



yet so, that the roots may piecede the fruits, pleurisies, ulcers of the lungs and bladder. 



Barley, of each an ounce, the seeds -of 

 Mallows five drams, the seeds of white 

 Poppies, Melons, Lettice, (seeds of Quinces 

 and Gum Tragacanth tied up in a rag) 

 of each three drams, boil them in six 

 pounds of rain or spring water till half be 

 consumed, strain it, and with two pounds 

 of sugar make it into a Syrup. 



CulpeperJ] It is a fine cooling Syrup, 

 very available in coughs, hoarseness, and 



