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Nicholas Culpeper Quotes

Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.2

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.275

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

Nicholas Culpeper (1698). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until This. Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, Whereby a Ma May Preserve His Body in Health, Or Cure Himself, Being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with Such Things Only as Grow in England, They Being Most Fit for English Bodies. Herein is Also Shewed These Seven Things, Viz. 1. The Way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps Or Waters, of All Sorts of Physical Herbs, ... 7. The Way of Mixing Medicines According to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology”, p.273

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

Nicholas Culpeper, Parkins (1814). “The English Physician; Enlarged with Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines Made of English Herbs: Not in Any Former Impression of Culpeper's British Herbal ... to which is Added The Family Physician ... and A Present for the Ladies”, p.350

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

Nicholas Culpeper (1666). “The English Physitian Enlarged: With Three Hundred, Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs that Were Not in Any Impression Untill This, Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.275

In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

Nicholas Culpeper (1832). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal, and English Physician ... To which is annexed, The British Florist, or Flower garden displayed, etc. With plates, including a portrait”, p.336

Thus have you the way of making Conserves, the way of keeping of them is in Earthen pots.

Way, Pot
Nicholas Culpeper (2006). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician”, p.206, Applewood Books

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.

Nicholas Culpeper (1698). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred Sixty and Nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until This. Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation; Containing a Compleat Method of Physick, Whereby a Ma May Preserve His Body in Health, Or Cure Himself, Being Sick, for Three Pence Charge, with Such Things Only as Grow in England, They Being Most Fit for English Bodies. Herein is Also Shewed These Seven Things, Viz. 1. The Way of Making Plaisters, Oyntments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps Or Waters, of All Sorts of Physical Herbs, ... 7. The Way of Mixing Medicines According to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease, and Part of the Body Afflicted. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and Astrology”, p.273

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

Nicholas Culpeper (1785). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until this : Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.335

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.

Nicholas Culpeper (1863). “The complete herbal; to which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities ... to which are now first annexed, The English physician, enlarged, and Key to physic ... New edition ... Illustrated by engravings of numerous British herbs and plants, correctly coloured from nature”, p.201