Nicholas Culpeper
The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.Collection: Gardening
The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.Collection: Drinking
Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.Collection: Medicine
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.Collection: Flower
For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.Collection: Rotten
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.Collection: Taken
Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.Collection: Hours
In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.Collection: Body
Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.Collection: Way
All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.Collection: Use
Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.Collection: Squash
The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.Collection: Spring