| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: hyssop, honey, water, and [illegible]; also honey and vinegar (which is called oxymel) to be eaten with green figs, and it works better with anis or cardamon or [illegible] in it.
Helps with the inflammation of the lungs, ‘the olde coughe’, ‘the shortwinded’, and those ‘that can not well take breth’, by driving ‘gross humors from the bely’.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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