The Signature and Vertues.
The Skins that cover the Nut Kernels, being taken in Wine, to the quantity of a Dramme, are very effectuall also to stay Womens Courses, especially those of the red Filbeard, which have the Signature of them. The dryed Husks and Shells to the weight of two drammes taken in Red Wine, doth the same, and stayeth the Lask likewise, and so doth the Milk that is drawn from the Kernells, and likewise the Catkins: The parched Kernels made into an Electuary, is very good to help an old Cough; and being parched, and a little Pepper put to them and drunk, it digesteth the distillation of Rheume from the Head. A Decoction of the inner rind of the Branches being made in small Ale, and taken first and last for nine or ten dayes together, is a speciall remedy for the Strangury. Nuts eaten alone in to•• great a quantity, are by no means commended, for they are said to be hard of di∣gestion, to fill the stomach with wind, to cause vomiting and the Head-ach, especial∣ly when they be old, for then they are worse than they are being newly gathered, yet if any one be so much taken with them that he cannot refrain them, let him eat Raisons together with them, that so the moisture of the one may qualifie the dry∣nesse of the other, and this hath been an ancient custome, as Schola Salerni tea∣cheth in the following Verse;
—Sum••ro sic mot est uncibussociando rac••mos;as also to eat them after Fish instead of Cheese, thereby to hinder the ingendering of Phlegme, which is thus expressed;
Post pisces Nuces, post Carnes Caseus ••••sii.
To say no more of those Simples that are appropriated for restraining the Naturall Courses of Women, as also the Whites. I shall now proceed to those that are service∣able for the Mother, and divers other distempere of the Womb, amongst which you shall finde but few, which do not provoke the Terms also, and therefore I made some▪ Reference of such to this Head.