Commit Quotes by Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with…

— Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come…

— Nicholas Culpeper

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon…

— Nicholas Culpeper

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

— Nicholas Culpeper

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.

— Nicholas Culpeper