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Of Cimino. chap. 38.
COmin is called Ciminum, and is a séede with good smell, and with pale coulour, as Dioscorides and Macrobius say, therefore Persius saith in this man∣ner.
Rugosum piper est, pallentis grana ci∣mini.
His meaning is, that Pepper is ri∣ueled, and the graine of Comin is pale: and is hot and drye in the second degrée, and hath vertue to temper, and to de∣part, and to distribute, and to abate thick∣nesse of fumositie, and to comfort dige∣stion, and to abate ventositie and ach of the stomacke: and to do away smelling, and to staunch the flixe of the wombe, if it bée dipped in Uineger, and first per∣ched and blowen into the nosethrilles, that it may make a man sneese, and it stauncheth bleeding at the nose, and swa∣geth and healeth swelling and ach of the iawes, and with Bayes of the Laurell trée, it helpeth colde reume, and dissol∣ueth and doth awaye bloudye reume in the eie, if it be well meddeled with cléere Waxe, and layde oft thereto. Pouder thereof well meddeled with Waxe, doth alwaye wanne coulour, that commeth of smiting, or otherwise, if it bee layde ofte therto: but by oft vse thereof. the face shall be discouloured. Huc vsque Dioscorides, and Plat.
And Plinius sayeth nigh the same, libro. 20 capitulo. 16. where hée sayeth, that some Comin is tame, and some is wilde, and hée sayth, it accordeth to ma∣ny medicines and remedyes, and namely of the stomacke: for it doth away swel∣ling and blowing thereof, and destroy∣eth ach, and gnawing of guttes and roayes.
(* 1.1Cumminum, called Seseli, as Dio∣scorides writeth, is of thrée sorts, the first is called Seseli Masilience: the seconde, Seseli Aethiopium: the third Seseli Pe∣loponnense. The séede and roote are hot and drye in the second degrée. The séede dronke with wine comforteth the heart, helpeth digestion, driueth awaye gnaw∣ing and griping in the bellye, it prouo∣keth vrine, expulseth the dead childe, and setteleth the Matrixe, and is sayde to bée good in curing the falling Euill, so that the disease haue not continued long.)