Nicholas Culpeper Quotes

Nicholas Culpeper — English Scientist

Nicholas Culpeper was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books include The English Physitian and the Complete Herbal, which contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge, and Astrological Judgement of Diseases from the Decumbiture of the Sick, which is one of the most detailed documents we have on the practice of medical astrology in Early Modern Europe... (wikipedia)

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.

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

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

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

In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.