44 A conffection of safron called, dia curcuma.
TAke of saffron asarabacca, parseley, yealow carrots, ani∣séede, the séede of smallage, aū. foure ʒ. rhubarbe, and wilde fennill, spikenard, aū. sixe ʒ. cost, the berries of myr∣tilltrée, casia fistula, squinantum, the séede of balme, mad∣der, iuice of wormewood, iuice of egrimonie, iuice of balme, aū. two ʒ. calamus aromaticus, cinamon, aū. one ʒ. s. wilde garlike, ceterac, the iuice of licoras aū. two ʒ. s.. the gum tragantum, one ʒ. make it with clarified honny.
This cureth olde diseases, and the euil liking and de∣formitie of the bodie, when the meate being receyued, doth not nourish but is corrupt in the bodie, it also helpeth the dropsie, the diseases of the liuer, and the spléene when they be hard, or indurat, it purgeth the stomacke of corrupt hu∣mors, cold and windie, it purgeth and mitigateth paine in the raines and bladder, it prouoketh vrine.