Botanologia the Brittish physician, or, the nature and vertues of English plants, exactly describing such plants as grow naturally in our land, with their several names Greek, Latine, or English, natures, places where they grow ... : by means whereof people may gather their own physick under every hedge ... : with two exact tables, the one of the English and Latine names of the plants, the other of the diseases and names of each plant appropriated to the diseases, with their cures / by Robert Turner.

Hops. Lupulus.

IT is a plant very well known, [Description and Names.] especially by the Brewers, and by the Greeks is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; in Latine Lupulus.

Place and Time.] It groweth in England both wilde and manured; Kent flourishes by them: they spring up in April, and are ripe about September.

Nature and Vertues.] Hops are hot and dry in the second degree, of a cleansing quality, whereby they are reputed good to cleanse the Reins from Gravel, and provoke Ʋrine; being used in the decoction, they open obstructions of the Liver and Spleen, cleanse the blood, and are good for the yellow Jaundies, and to help breakings out in the Body: they do purge Choller from the Liver and Stomach. The decoction of the flowers is good for those that have drunk poison, and is likewise good in bathes for the hardness and swellings of the Mother, and Strangury: they are most used to preserve Beer, whereby it is kept a long time: but stale Beer is a cruel enemy to those who are afflicted with the Stone: therefore let those that are subject to that distemper, drink plain honest harmless old English Ale.