Three chestnuts

"If you dry chesnuts, (only the kernels I mean) both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder, and make the powder into an electuary with honey, so have you an admirable remedy for the cough and spitting of blood."

Nicholas Culpeper (October 1616 - January 1654) English Botanist, Herbalist, Physician






Am currently "off" with raging man-flu. Can imagine phoning work to book sick, "I am with cough and spitting of blood. Yet I have an admirable....".

"... get back to work you lazy lying tick!"