The Complete Herbal / To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic.

by Nicholas Culpeper

Take a drachm of Galanga, in powder, every morning in a draught of that Wine you like best.

45. For heat of the Stomach.

Swallow four or five grains of Mastich every night going to bed.

OF THE LIVER, AND ITS INFIRMITIES.

46. A caution.

If the liver be too hot, it usually proceeds from too much blood, and is known by redness of urine, the pulse is swift, the veins great and full, the spittle, mouth, and tongue, seem sweeter than they used to be: the cure is letting blood in the right arm.

47. To cause the Liver well to digest.

Take Oil of Wormwood, and so much Mastich in powder as will make it into a poultice, lay it warm to your right side.

48. A caution.

If the liver be stopped, the face will swell, and you shall be as sure to have a pain in your right side, as though you had it there already.