Hops · vehicle not stated

Original passage

This Physical operation is to open Obstructions of the Liver and Spleen to clens the Blood, to loosen the Belly, to clens the Reins from Gravel, and provoke Urine. The Decoction of the tops of Hops¹, as well of the tame as the wild, worketh the same effects. In cleansing the Blood they help to cure the French Diseas, and al manner of Scabs, Itch, and other breakings out in the Body, as also al Tetters, Ringworms, and spreading Sores, the Morphew, and all discolourings of the Skin. The Decoction of the Flowers and tops, do help to expel poyson that any one hath drunk: Half a dram of the Seed in Pouder taken in drink, killeth Worms in the Body, bringeth down Womens Courses, and expelleth Urin: A Syrup made of the Juyce and Sugar, cureth the yellow Jaundice, easeth the Headach that comes of Heat, and tempereth the heat of the Liver and Stomach, and is profitably given in long and hot Agues that rise of Choller and Blood. Both the wild and the manured are of one property, and alike effectual in al the aforesaid Diseases.

Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, or An Astrologo-Physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation (1652 edition) · Entry “Hops.” · vertues and use · lines 10205–10228 · passage culpeper-1652:herbal:hops:008