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COleworts are hot and dry in the first degree, they are used to bee eaten, especially the Cabage Cole. Which being boyled are very good with Beefe, together with Vinegar and Pepper. The vertues of Cole are well described by Schola Salerni.
Ius caulis solvit, cujus substantia stringit. Vtraque quando datur, venter laxare paratur.
Arnoldus affirmeth, that Coleworts engender me∣lancholy humours, and ill dreames, and that they hurt
the stomacke, nourish little, dull the sight, all which qualities be very noysome to Students. Wherefore I counsell them not much to use Coleworts. Diosc. wri∣teth,* 1.1 that if they be eaten last after meat, they preserve the stomack from surfetting, and the head from drun∣kennesse. Yea, some write, that if one would drinke much Wine for a wager,* 1.2 and not bee drunke, but to have also a good stomacke to meat, that he should eat before the banquet, raw Cabbage leaves with Vine∣gar, so much as hee list, and after the banquet to eat againe foure or five raw leaves, which practise is much used in Germanie,* 1.3 as Matth. upon the Preface of Diosc. noteth, where he saith, that the Vine and the Cole∣worts be so contrary by nature, that if you plant Cole∣worts neare to the roots of the Vine, that the Vine of it selfe fleeth from them. Ideo nil mirum (saith hee) si tantum Erassicam contra••e mulentiam pollere credant, quod∣que Germani quotidia••is mensis id ol•••• semper appon••••t, ut vini noxam effugiant. But I trust no Student will prove this experiment, whether he may be drunken or not, if he eat Colewort leaves before and after a feast.
Lib. 2. cap. 113.
A practise to preserve a man from drunken∣nesse.
The contra∣riety betweene the Vine and the Colewort.