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IT is call'd in Latine Sal, in English Salt, it is hot in the second de∣gree, and dry in the third: it is of a cleansing, digesting, attenua∣ting, drying, consuming, and somewhat also of an astringent fa∣culty.
Salt will keep good many yeers. There are two sorts in use, White and Bay Salt.
Salt may most justly be called Condimentum condimentorum, Sawce of sawces, as being necessary for seasoning and preserving of meats, that we cannot well live without it. For it is a custome among us to set it first at the table, and to take it away last. It maketh thin, grosse, and clammy humours, resisteth venome, preventeth and correcteth putrefaction, by drying and consuming all crude and moist super∣fluities, stirreth up Venery, strengtheneth weak and loose parts, help∣eth digestion especially in a cold and moist stomach, consumeth all corrupt humours, and is very profitable in stoppings of the urine and belly, as also in the Collick.
It is used chiefly in powder.
Take of common Salt one ounce and a half, Pepper six drams, Cummin-seed half an ounce, Caraway-seed, Cynamon, Zedoarie, of each three drams, Ginger and Mace, of each two drams and a half: make all into a fine powder, and let it be eaten with meat.
It is used in rotten and putrid Ulcers, as also in creeping Ulcers and simple Tumours, in the Itch, Scab, Tetters, or Ringworme, in the Gowt, cold Aches, pain of the Teeth, Head-ach, Collick, and to take away the skin growing over the Eye. It is good also in Gan∣grenes, and in Burnings to draw out the heat.
Take of common Salt three or four handfuls; boil it in water to the consumption of half, with which bathe the parts affected warm.
Take Salt and dry it, make it in powder, and being put into a bag, apply it warm to the eares.
Take of Honey half an ounce, of common Salt a dram; boil it gently to a due light and form, and being cold anoint it with Oile or Butter, and put it up.
Salt used too much, dryeth up the humours of the body, wasteth seed, burneth the Liver and Bloud, ingenders sharp and biting hu∣mours, causeth Itch and Scabs, annoyeth the stomach, dimmeth the
sight, destroyeth the radicall moisture, corrupteth and spoileth the habit of the whole body, making persons soon look old and wrink∣led, as may be seen in young maidens that eat much thereof. It is very hurtful for lean, dry, and cholerick persons.
Oile of Salt, or Spirit. Tincture of Salt. Flowers of Salt.