CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL,

AND

ENGLISH PHYSICIAN;

The way of making and keeping all necessary compounds.

CHAP. XV.

The way of fitting or applying medicines to compound diseases.

    1. In all diseases strengthen the part of the body afflicted.
    2. In mixed diseases there lies some difficulty, for sometimes two parts of the body are afflicted with contrary humours, as sometimes the liver is afflicted with choler and water, as when a man hath had the dropsy and yellow jaundice; and this is usually mortal.
    In the former, suppose the brain be too cool and moist, and the liver to be hot and dry; thus do:
    1. Keep your head outwardly warm.
    2. Accustom yourself to the smell of hot herbs.
    3. Take a pill that heats the head at night going to bed.
    4. In the morning take a decoction that cools the liver, for that quickly passeth the stomach, and is at the liver immediately.
    5. Be sure always to fortify the grieved part of the body by sympathetical remedies.
    6. Regard the heart, keep that upon the wheels, because the Sun is the foundation of life, and therefore those universal remedies, Aurum Potabile, and Philosopher's Stone: cure all diseases by fortifying the heart.