The castell of health, corrected, and in some places augmented by the first author thereof, Sir Thomas Elyot Knight

Of Figges.

FIgges eaten doe shortly passe out of the stomacke, and are soone distributed into all the partes of the bo∣die, and haue the power to cleanse specially grauell, be∣ing in the raines of the back: but they make no substanti∣all nourishment, but rather somewhat loose and windie, but by their quicke passage, the winde is soone dissolued. Therefore if they bee ripe, they doe least harme of anie fruites, or almost none. Drie figs and old, are more hotte and moist than new gathered, but being much eatē they make ill blood and iuyce, and as some doe suppose, doe in∣gender Lice: & also annoyeth the liuer and the spléene, if they bée inflamed: but hauing the power to attenuate or make humors currant, they make the bodie soluble, and doe clense the raines. Also being eaten before dinner with ginger or pepper, or powder of Time, or Peniryall: they profit much to them which haue opilations or hard con∣gealed matter in the inner parts of the bodie, or haue di∣stillations or rewmes falling into the breast & stomack. New figges are hot and moyst, olde figges are hot in the first degrée, and drie in the second.