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Aurantiorum. Of Oranges. Both these, and also Lemons and Citrons, are ofdifferent qualities: the outward bark, viz. what looksred, is hot and dry, the white is cold and moist, the juice colder than it, the seeds hotand dry; the outward bark is that which here I am to speak to, it is somewhat hotterthan either that of Lemons or Citrons, therefore it warms a cold stomach more, andexpels wind better, but strengthens not the heart so much.Berber, &c. Barberries. The Rind of the tree according to Clœsius, being steeped inwine, and the wine drank, purges choler, and is a singular remedy for the yellowjaundice. Boil it in white wine and drink it. See the directions at the beginning.Cassia Lignea, &c. It is something more oily than Cinnamon, yet the virtues beingnot much different, I refer you thither.Capparis Rad. Of Caper roots. See the roots.Castanearum. Of Chesnuts. The bark of the Chesnut tree is dry and binding, andstops fluxes.Cinnamonum. Cinnamon, and Cassia Lignea, are hot and dry in the second degree,strengthens the stomach, help digestion, cause a sweet breath, resist poison, provokeurine, and the menses, cause speedy delivery to women in travail, help coughs anddefluxions of humours upon the lungs, dropsy, and difficulty of urine. In ointments ittakes away red pimples, and the like deformities from the face. There is scarce abetter remedy for women in labour, than a dram of Cinnamon newly beaten intopowder, and taken in white wine.Citrij. Of Pome Citrons. The outward pill, which I suppose is that which is meanthere: It strengthens the heart, resists poison, amends a stinking breath, helps digestion,comforts a cold stomach.Ebuli Rad. Of the roots of Dwarf-Elder, or Walwort. See the herbs.Enulœ. Of Elecampane. See the roots.Esulœ Rad. See the roots.Fabarum. Of Beans. Bean Cods (or Pods, as we in Sussex call them) being bruised,the ashes are a sovereign remedy for aches in the joints, old bruises, gouts, andsciaticas.   Fœniculi Rad. Of Fennel roots. See the roots, and remember the observation givenin Smallage at the beginning of the barks.Fraxini Rad. Of the bark of Ash-tree roots. The bark of the tree, helps the rickets, ismoderately hot and dry, stays vomiting; being burnt, the ashes made into an ointment,helps leprosy and other deformity of the skin, eases pains of the spleen. You may laythe bark to steep in white wine for the rickets, and when it hath stood so for two orthree days, let the diseased child drink now and then a spoonful of it.Granatorum. Of Pomegranates. The rind cools, and forcibly binds, stays fluxes,and the menses, helps digestion, strengthens weak stomachs, fastens the teeth, and aregood for such whose gums waste. You may take a dram of it at a time inwardly.Pomegranate flowers are of the same virtue.Gatrujaci. See the wood.Juglandium Virid. Of green Walnuts. As for the outward green bark of Walnuts, Isuppose the best time to take them is before the Walnuts be shelled at all, and thenyou may take nuts and all (if they may properly be called nuts at such a time) youshall find them exceeding comfortable to the stomach, they resist poison, and are amost excellent preservative against the plague, inferior to none: they are admirable forsuch as are troubled with consumptions of the lungs.Lauri. Of the Bay-tree. See the root.