| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: betony roots, alternatively prepared in mead, water, or honey water.
It drives out ‘much fleme by vomit’, ‘looseth the body’, helps with digestion, ‘maketh a purgation’, and purges and ‘scoureth’ the lungs, breasts, and liver.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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