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THE COMPLETE HERBAL

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The temperature of all these differ either! Cloves, help digestion, stop looseness, pro-vejry 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 thebear, because most of them may, and are!cholic, quickens digestion oppressed withusually made into conserves, of which you \ 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 a \ Pears are grateful to the stomachy dry-year, and boiled with other herbs conducing { ing, and therefore help fluxes.

to the cures they do.

| All plums that are sharp or souk, are

binding, the sweet are loosening.

FRUITS AND THEIR BUDS.

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| Cucumbers, cool the stomach, and are| good against ulcers in the bladder,i Galls, are exceeding binding, help ulcersGreen Figs, are held to be of ill juice, but j in the mouth, wasting of the gums, casethe best is, we are not much troubled with j the pains of the teeth, help the killing outthem in England; dry figs help coughs, jof the womb and fundament, make thecleanse the breast, and help infirmities of the; hair black.

lungs, shortness of wind, they loose the | Pompions are a cold and moist fruit, ofbelly, purge the reins, help inflammations { small nourishment, they provoke urine,of the liver and spleen; outwardly they dis- \ outwardly applied ; the flesh of them helpssolve swellings. 1 inflammations and burnings; applied to the

Pine-nuts, restore such as are in con- * forehead they help inflammations of the eyes,sumptions, amend the failings of the lungs, j 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. * and dry up the humours thereof. Peaches

Dates, are binding, stop eating ulcers ? are held to do the like,being applied to them ; they arc very good; Cubebs, are hot and dry in the third de-fer weak stomachs, for they soon digest, and; gree, they expel wind, and cleanse thebreed good nourishment, they help .infir- j stomach of tough and viscous humours, theymities of the reins, bladder, and womb. lease the pains of the spleen, and help coldSebestens , cool choler, -violent, heat of the j diseases of the womb, they cleanse the headstomach, help roughness of the tongue and \ of flegm and strengthen the brain, they heatwind-pipe, cool the reins and bladder. 1 the stomach and provoke venery.

Raisins of the Sun, help infirmities of the; Ritter Almonds, are hot in the first degreebreast and liver, restore consumptions, {and dry in the second, they cleanse and cutgently cleanse and move to stool. ;thick humours, cleanse the lungs; and oaten

Walnuts, kill w r orms, 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 lmn- \ Ray-berries, heat, expel wind, mitigateger. 1 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-the spleen, stop looseness, ease pains of the ling to their, different taste, the sweet archead, and pains in the joints, strengthen the: quickest of digestion, but the sour are morebody, take away weakness coming of cold,'; pleasing to a hot stomach, and procureand cause a sweet breath. qappetite to one's meat.