A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous
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_A Barley Cream to procure sleep, or Almond Milke._
Take a good handfull of French _Barley_, wash it cleane in warme water, and boyle it in a quart of sayre water to the halfe, then put our the water from the _Barley_, and put the _Barley_ into a pottell of new clean water, with a _Parsley,_ and a _Fennell_ root, clean washed, and picked with _Bourage, Buglos, Violet_ leaves, and _Lettice_, of each one handfull, boyle them with the _Barley_, till more then halfe be consumed; then strayne out the liquor, and take of blanched _Almonds_ a handfull, of the seeds of _Melons, Cucumbers, Citralls_, and _Gourds_, husked, of each halfe a quarter of an ounce, beat these seeds, and the _Almonds_ together, in a stone morter, with so much _Sugar_, and Rose-water as is fit, and strayne them through a cleane cloath into the liquor, and drink thereof at night going to bed, and in the night, if this doth not sufficiently provoke sleep, then make some more of the same liquor, and boyle in the same the beads, or a little of white _Poppey_. _An Oyntment to kill the Worms in little Children_. For stomach Wormes, annoynt the stomach with Oyle of _Wormwood,_ and the belly with Oyle of sweet _Almonds_, for belly Wormes take all of _Wormwood_, Oyle of _Savine_, and the Powder of _Aloe Cicatrina_, finely beaten, annoynt the belly therewith, morning and evening. You must not use _Savine_ in Medicines for Mayden Children, but in stead of Oyle of _Savine_, take as much of an Oxes Gall. |
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