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10 quotes by Nicholas Culpeper

Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 10 January 1654) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books include The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), which contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick (1655), which is one of the most detailed documents we have on the practice of medical astrology in...
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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

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

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

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

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

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In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

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

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

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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... →

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The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may... →

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