Trochisci Alkekengi. Or Troches of Winter-cherries.
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Culpeper, Nicholas
College.] Take of Winter Cherries three drams, Gum Arabic, Tragacanth, Olibanum, Dragon’s-blood, Pine-nuts, bitter Almonds, white Styrax, juice of Liquorice, Bole-ammoniac, white Poppy seeds, of each six drams, the seeds of Melons, Cucumbers, Citruls, Gourds, of each three drams and an half, the seeds of Smallage and white Henbane, Amber, Earth of Lemnos, Opium, of each two drams, with juice of fresh Winter-Cherries, make them into troches according to art.
Culpeper.] They potently provoke urine, and break the stone. Mix them with other medicine of that nature, half a dram at a time, or a dram if age permit.