The compleat herbal of physical plants containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey ...

Pomegranate, in La∣tin Malus Punica, sive Gra∣nata.

It grows in France, Italy and Spain. The Ap∣ples are reckon'd to con∣tain a good Juice, that is agreeable to the Stomach; but it yields little Nourish∣ment. Pomegranates, with respect to their Taste, are distinguish'd into Sweet, Acid and Vinous. The Sweet, and the Syrup of them, is used for Cronical Coughs; and a Pleurifie;

but it is not good in Fe∣vers, because it occasions Wind, and increases the Heat. The Acid are cold, and Astringent, and Sto∣machick; wherefore they, and the Syrup of them, are used to quench Thirst, for Fevers, the Running of the Reins, for Ulcers of the Mouth, and the like. The Vinous are of a middle Na∣ture, betwixt Acid and Sweet; they are Cordial and Cephalick, and chiefly used for Fainting, and Gid∣diness, and the like. The Juice is press'd out of these Apples for the aforesaid Uses; and being ferment∣ed and clear'd, is call'd Wine. The Flowers are very astringent, wherefore they are frequently used for Fluxes of all kinds. The Powder of them being sprinkled upon Ulcers, soon Cicatrises them, and cures Ulcers of the Mouth. The Bark is of the same Nature with the Flowers, and is used to tan Leather, and to make Ink, instead of Galls. A Decoction of it in Wine, taken inwardly, kills Worms, especially those which are call'd Asca∣rides. The Kernels cool and bind, especially those of the Acid Apple. In short, the Flowers, the Bark, the Kernels, and the Leaves are proper where there is need of Binding. Syrup of Pomegranates of the London-Dispensatory is made in the following man∣ner: Take of White Sugar a Pound and an half, of the Juice of Pomegranates cla∣rified a Pint; make a Sy∣rup in B. M. Caesalpinus says, that the Juice press'd from the Pomegranate, and the Peel of it, purges yel∣low Choler: But this must be understood of the Sweet Apples. Take of Pome∣granate-peel half an Ounce, of Red Roses two Pugils; boyl them in a sufficient quantity of Cow's Milk; in half a Pint of the strain∣ed Liquor dissolve half an Ounce of Diascordium: Make a Clyster. This Dr. Sydenham commends much in a Loosness, to stop it.