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CHAP. 34. Of Cummine.
CVmmin is hot and drie in the third degree, the seed is chieflie used and not the hearbe, nor root; It is little used in meates, but often in medicines, to provoke Vrine, and breake winde. For one that hath a stinking breath, if it proceed of corrupt fumes, rising from the stomacke, it may bee used thus: Take two handfuls of Cummin and boyle it in a Pottle of good white wine,* 1.1 till halfe bee wasted, then streine it, and drinke it first in the morning and last at night fifteene dayes together, halfe a Pinte at a time, hot or colde. The same wine also is good for the Collick, & for the Cough; and Cummin seeds sodden in water, if the face be washed with the same,* 1.2 doe cause the face to be clearer and fairer▪ so that it be used now and then, for the often & much using of it doth make the face pale: good therfore for such as be high coloure. In Matthi∣olus I reade a practise to bee wrought with Cummine seeds and (as I thinke) hath beene used in time past of Monkes and Friers.* 1.3 Cumino (saith he) frequenter utuntur in ••ibis, & eo saepe sufficiuntur qui facies suas exterminant, ut sanctitatem & corporis macerationem admentiantur.