A Salernitan Regimen of Health - Page Seven
From eating the cherry, you will derive great benefits:
It purges the stomach, its pit removes your kidney stone.
And from its pulp will come good blood.

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Plums are quite beneficial to you: they are cooling and cathartic.

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You should take peaches with must (new wine),
Just as it is customary to eat grapes with nuts.
Raisins are bad for the spleen, but good for a cough or for the kidneys.

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Fig in a poultice removes scrofula, tumor, and glandulas;
Add poppy and it mends together broken bones.

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The fig generates lice and lust, but it resists anything.

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Medlars cause excessive urine and constipation.
Medlars are good hard, but better soft.

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Must causes urine, is laxative and brings on gas.

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Beer nourishes thick humors, gives strength,
Fattens the flesh, produces blood,
Provokes urine, has a laxative effect, causes gas,
And has a cooling effect. Vinegar has more of a drying effect:
It cools, makes a man thin, induces melancholy, decreases the number of sperm,
Harms those of dry humor, and dries up the nerve of the fats.

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Cummins, Patricia Willet. A Critical Edition of Le Regime Tresutile et Tresproufitable pour Conserver et Garder la Santé du Corps Humain. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures, 1976.

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