The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
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The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
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Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
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London :: Printed by Peter Cole,
1652.
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Botany, Medical -- Early works to 1800.
Materia medica.
Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English physitian, or An astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health, or cure himself being sick for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England ... / by Nich. Culpeper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35365.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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Vertues and use.
They are no less windy than Beans, but nou∣rish
more, they provoke Urine, and are thought
to encreas Sperm, they have a clensing faculty,
wherby they break the Stones in the Kidneys.
To drink the cream of them being boyled in
Water is the best way; it moveth the Belly
downwards, provoketh Womens Courses, and
Urin, and encreaseth both Milk and Seed.
One ounce of Cicers, two ounces of French
Barley, and a smal handful of Marsh-Mallow
Roots, clean washed and cut, being boyled in
the broth of a Chicken, and four ounces taken
in the morning and fasting two hours after is
a good Medicine for a pain in the Sides. The
white Cicers are used more for Meat than Me∣dicine,
yet have they the same effects, and are
thought more powerful to encreas Milk and
Seed.
The wild Cicers are so much more powerful
than the Garden kinds, by how much they ex∣ceed
them in heat and driness; whereby they
do more open Obstructions, break the Stone,
and have al the properties of cutting, opening,
digesting, and dissolving, and this more spee∣dily,
and certainly than the former.