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.Med/ars,aresti’engthening tothestomach,; confident a child of three years old, if youbinding, and the green are more binding 1 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.
Olives, cool and bind.
English -ciirrants, cool the stomach, and;are profitable in acute fevers, they quench ithirst, resist vomiting, cool the heat ofj
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 Chockers are of the nature of l wholesome vapours to the brain, dangerousMedlars, but something weaker in opera- \ 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 andand fluxes, stop the menses, kill worms, j mixed with vinegar they ease the pains ofhelp spitting of blood, fasten the teeth, and \ the spleen : being applied to the sides,strengthen the gums. j help hardness and swellings of the matrix,
Strawberries, cool the stomach, liver, and j being boiled* the decoction helps scabbyblood, but are very hurtful for such as have ? heads.
agues. | Lin-seed hath the same virtues with Fenu-
Winter-Cherries, potently provoke urine, j greek.and break the stone. j Cromwell seed, provokes urine, helps the
Cassia-fistula, is temperate in quality, j cholic, breaks the stone, and expels wind,gently purgeth choler and flegm, clarifies j Boil them in white wine ; but bruise themthe blood,-resists fevers, cleanses the breast \ first.
and lungs, it cools the reins, and thereby > 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 j help scabs, itch, and inflammations.
Fluor Albus in women. f Dill seed, encreasos milk in nurses, expels
All the sorts or Mp'obalans, purge the! wind, stays vomitings, provokes urine ; yetstomach; the Indian Myrobalans, are held lit dulls the sight, and is an enemy to gene-to purge melancholy most especially, the J ration.
other flegm; yet take heed you use them j Smallage seed, provokes urine and thenot in stoppings of the bowels: they are \ menses, expels wind, resists poison, andcold and dry, they all strengthen the heart, j eases inward pains, it opens stoppings inbrain, and sinews, strengthen the stomach,: any part of the body, yet it is hurtful forrelieve the senses, take awav tremblings and 1 such as have the falling-sickness, and forheart-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 ofde gree, they purge choler, cool the blood, | 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 hot j rides and Crescentius , cheers the heart, andlivers. j strengthens a moist stomach, drives away
I omit the use of these also as resting Unelancholy, and provokes urine.