CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL,

AND

ENGLISH PHYSICIAN;

The way of making and keeping all necessary compounds.

CHAP. IX.

Of Lohocks.

    1. That which the Arabians call Lohocks, and the Greeks Eclegma, the Latins called Linctus, and in plain English signifies nothing else but a thing to be licked up.
    2. Their first invention was to prevent and remedy afflictions of the breast and lungs, to cleanse the lungs of phlegm, and make it fit to be cast out.
    3. They are in body thicker than a syrup, and not so thick as an electuary.
    4. The manner of taking them is, often to take a little with liquorice-stick, and let it go down at leisure.
    They are easily thus made: Make a decoction of pectoral herbs, and the treatise will furnish you with enough; and when you have strained it, with twice its weight of honey or sugar, boil it to a lohock; if you are molested with much phlegm, honey is better than sugar; and if you add a little vinegar to it, you will do well; if not, I hold sugar to be better than honey.
    6. It is kept in pots, and way be kept a year or longer.
    7. It is excellent for roughness of the windpipe, inflammations and ulcers of the lungs, difficulty of breathing, asthmas, and distillations of humours.