The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. English physitian
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The British herbal and family physician. : To which is added, a dispensatory for the use of private families / by Nicholas Culpepper. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![flux: for the berries are as good as the bark, and more pleasing; they get a man a good stomach to his victuals, by strengthening the attractive faculty which is under Mars, as you may see more at large at the latter end of my Ephemeris for the year 1651: The hair washed with the lee made of ashes of the tree and water, will make it turn yellow, viz. of Mars’ own colour. The fruit and rind of the shrub, the flowers of broom and of heath, or furze, cleanse the body of choler by sympathy, as the flowers, leaves, and bark of the peach-tree do by antipathy; because these are under Mars, that under Venus. BARLEY. The continual usefulness hereof hath made all in general so acquainted herewith, that it is altogether needless to describe it, several kinds hereof plentifully growing, being yearly sown in this land. The virtues thereof take as followeth. Government and~Virtnes.] It is a notable plant of Saturn: if you view diligently its effects by sympathy and antipathy, you may easily perceive a reason of them; as also why barley bread is so unwholesome for melancholy people. Barley in all the parts and compositions thereof (except malt) is more cooling than wheat, and a little cleansing: And all the preparations thereof, as barley-water and other things made thereof do give great nourishment to persons troubled with fevers, agues, and heats in the stomach. A poultice made of barley meal or flour boiled in vinegar and honey, and a few dry figs put into them, dissolveth all hard imposthumes, and assuagetli inflammations, being thereto applied. And being boiled with melilot and ca- momile flowers, and some lineseed, fenugreek, and rue in pow- der, mid applied warm, it easeth pains in side and stomach, and windiness of the spleen. The meal of barley and fleawort boil- ed in water, and made a poultice with honey and oil of lilies ap- plied warm, cureth swellings under the ears, throat, neck, and such like; and a plaister made thereof with tar, wax, and oil helpeth the king’s evil in the throat; boiled with sharp vinegar](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24930775_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
