FRUITS.
College.] Winter-cherries, Love Apples, Almonds sweet and bitter, Anacardia, Oranges, Hazel Nuts, the oily Nut Ben, Barberries, Capers, Guinny Pepper, Figs, Carpobalsamum, Cloves, Cassia Fistula, Chestnuts, Cherries black and red, Cicers, white, black and red, Pome Citrons, Coculus Indi, Colocynthis, Currants, Cornels or Cornelian Cherries, Cubebs, Cucumbers garden and wild, Gourds, Cynosbatus, Cypress, Cones, Quinces, Dates, Dwarf-Elder, Green Figs, Strawberries, common and Turkey Galls, Acorns, Acorn Cups, Pomegranates, Gooseberries, Ivy, Herb True-Love, Walnuts, Jujubes, Juniper berries, Bayberries, Lemons, Oranges, Citrons, Quinces, Pomegranates, Lemons, Mandrakes, Peaches, Stramonium, Apples, garden and wild, or Crabs and Apples, Musk Melons, Medlars, Mulberries, Myrobalans, Bellericks, Chebs, Emblicks, Citron and Indian, Mirtle, Berries, water Nuts, Hazel Nuts, Chestnuts, Cypress Nuts, Walnuts, Nutmegs, Fistick Nuts, Vomiting Nuts, Olives pickled in brine, Heads of white and black Poppies, Pompions, Peaches, French or Kidney Beans, Pine, Cones, white, black, and long Pepper, Fistick Nuts, Apples and Crabs, Prunes, French and Damask, Sloes, Pears, English Currants, Berries of Purging Thorn, black Berries, Raspberries, Elder berries, Sebastens, Services, or Checkers, Hawthorn berries, Pine Nuts, Water Nuts, Grapes, Gooseberries, Raisins, Currants.
Culpeper.] That you may reap benefit by these, be pleased to consider, that they are some of them
Temperate in respect of heat. Raisins of the sun, Currants, Figs, Pine Nuts, Dates, Sebastens.
Hot in the first degree. Sweet Almonds, Jujubes, Cypress Nuts, green Hazel Nuts, green Walnuts.
Hot in the second degree. The Nut Ben, Capers, Nutmegs, dry Walnuts, dry Hazel Nuts, Fistick Nuts.
In the third degree. Juniper Berries, Cloves, Carpobalsamum, Cubebs, Anacardium, bitter Almonds.
In the fourth degree. Pepper, white, black and long, Guinny Pepper.
Cold in the first degree. The flesh of Citrons, Quinces, Pears, Prunes, &c.
In the second. Gourds, Cucumbers, Melons, Pompions, Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Pomegranates, viz. the juice of them, Peaches, Prunes, Galls, Apples.
In the third. Mandrakes.
In the fourth. Stramonium.
Moist in the first degree. The flesh of Citrons, Lemons, Oranges, viz. the inner rhind which is white, the outer rhind is hot.
In the second. Gourds, Melons, Peaches, Prunes, &c.
Dry in the first degree. Juniper Berries.
In the second. The Nut Ben, Capers, Pears, Fistick Nuts, Pine Nuts, Quinces, Nutmegs, Bay berries.
In the third. Cloves, Galls, &c.
In the fourth. All sorts of pepper.
As appropriated to the body of Man, so they heat the head: as
Anacardia, Cubebs, Nutmegs.
The breast. Bitter Almonds, Dates, Cubebs, Hazel Nuts, Pine Nuts, Figs, Raisins of the sun, Jujubes.
The heart. Walnuts, Nutmegs, Juniper berries.
The stomach. Sweet Almonds, Cloves, Ben, Juniper berries, Nutmegs, Pine Nuts, Olives.
The spleen. Capers.
The reins and bladder. Bitter Almonds, Juniper Berries, Cubebs, Pine Nuts, Raisins of the sun.
The womb. Walnuts, Nutmegs, Bayberries, Juniper berries.
Cool the breast. Sebastens, Prunes, Oranges, Lemons.
The heart. Oranges, Lemons, Citrons, Pomegranates, Quinces, Pears.
The stomach. Quinces, Citruls, Cucumbers, Gourds, Musk Melons, Pompions, Cherries, Gooseberries, Cornelian Cherries, Lemons, Apples, Medlars, Oranges, Pears, English Currants, Cervices or Checkers.
The liver. Those that cool the stomach and Barberries.
The reins and womb. Those that cool the stomach, and Strawberries.
By their several operations, some
Bind. As the berries of Mirtles, Barberries, Chestnuts, Cornels, or Cornelian Cherries, Quinces, Galls, Acorns, Acorn-cups, Medlars, Checkers or Cervices, Pomegranates, Nutmegs, Olives, Pears, Peaches.
Discuss. Capers, all the sorts of Pepper.
Extenuate. Sweet and bitter Almonds, Bayberries, Juniper berries.
Glutinate. Acorns, Acorn Cups, Dates, Raisins of the sun, Currants.
Expel Wind. Bay berries, Juniper berries, Nutmegs, all the sorts of Pepper.
Breed seed. Raisins of the sun, sweet Almonds, Pine Nuts, Figs, &c.
Provoke urine. Winter Cherries.
Provoke the terms. Ivy berries, Capers, &c.
Stop the terms. Barberries, &c.
Resist poison. Bay berries, Juniper berries, Walnuts, Citrons, commonly called Pome Citrons, all the sorts of Pepper.
Ease pain. Bay berries, Juniper berries, Ivy berries, Figs, Walnuts, Raisins, Currants, all the sorts of Pepper.
Fruits purging.
Choler. Cassia Fistula, Citron Myrobalans, Prunes, Tamarinds, Raisins.
Melancholy. Indian Myrobalans.
Flegm. Colocynthis and wild Cucumbers purge violently, and therefore not rashly to be meddled withal: I desire my book should be beneficial, not hurtful to the vulgar, but Myrobalans of all sorts, especially Chebs, Bellericks and Emblicks, purge flegm very gently, and without danger.
Of all these give me leave to commend only one to you as of special concernment which is Juniper berries.
