OVt of this forme of humours are sought digerent, * 1.1 di∣gestive, or preparing things; so called, all which, since they hinder nature in acting, take away and change the qua∣lities, which resist the action of native heat, namely they coole too much those things that are hot, and heate too much those things that are two cold; they moisten dry things, and dry up moist things, they attenuate what is thick, and in∣crassate what is thin.
Namely yellow choler is to bee corrected with cooling, * 1.2 moistning and thickning things, Phleagme is to be prepa∣red with heating, drying and attenuating things; melan∣choly humors are to bee corrected with things moderately heating, moistning and attenuating; black Choler is to be prepared with things that are very moistning & attenuating.
And those things are to be used which are fitted to every part, according as the humour resides in this or that part, cold cephalicks prepare and digest choler in the head; cold Thoracicks, in the Breast; cold Cardiaacks in the heart, things cooling the Ventricle, in the stomack; cold Hepaticks in the Liver.
Hot Cephalicks prepare Flegme in the head; * 1.3 hot Tho∣racicks in the Breast, hot things appropriated to the Ventri∣cle prepare flegme in the stomack; hot Hepaticks in the Li∣ver; things heating the Reines in the Reines; hot things appropriated to the Womb in the Womb.