Of the walnut and the walnut tree (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,70.3) Nux wythout any farther addition is called a Walnut or a walnut tree . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,70.5) It is called also Iuglans / nux persica / glans iouis / nux bisilica / & nux regia / in Greek Carya basilica / in Dutch Eyn nusz baum / oder ein Welshnusz / in French Ung noier . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,70.6) The walnut and the walnut trees are so well knowen in all countries that I nede not to describe / wherefore I entende to leaue the description and to go to the properties of it . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,70.7) The vertues of the Vualnut (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.10) Walnuttes are harde of digestion / not good for the stomake / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.12) and inge~dre choler / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.13) and they make y=e= head ache . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.14) They are euell for them that haue the coughe . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.15) They are fit to be taken fastinge of them that woulde vomite . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.16) If they be taken afore hand wyth rue and figges / and also after meat by & by / they wythstande poison . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.17) They do no lesse if they be eaten after that a man hath dronke~ poison . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.18) If they be eate~ in greate plenty they driue out brode wormes . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.19) It is good to lay them to / wyth a litle hony and rue for the burninge heate or inflammation of the papes / for impostemes / and places out of ioynt . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.20) If they be layde to wyth an onion / salt and hony / they are good for the bytinges both-1 of men and dogges . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.21) If they be burnt wyth their vtter huskes and laide vnto the nauell / they sta~che the gnawinge of y=e= belly . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.22) The shell burnt and broken in oyle and wine / is good to anoynt childers heades wythall to make the here grow / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.23) the same is also good to fill vp the bare places of scalled heades . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.24) The kernels burned / if they be broken and laide to wyth wine / they will stay the blody yssew that som tyme wemen haue . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.25) The same are good to laye to olde carbuncles and crepinge sores / tetters and impostemes that are in the corners of the eye . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.26) The same chowed and laide vpon the head / are a present remedy for the fallyng of the heare . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.27) A man may make oyle of the kirnels of walnuttes / if he will presse them / specially when they are olde : (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.28) They that are grene / are not so ill for the stomake as the old nuttes be / because they are sweter . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.29) If they be mixed with {COM:sic} garleke / they take away the sharpnes . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.30) and they do if they be layde to emplasterwise / driue awaye the blew markes that come of stripes . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.31) The walnut tree both-1 in his leaues and buddes hath a certayne bindinge / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.32) but the bindinge is most euidently perceyued in the vtter huskes / both moyst and drye / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.33) and therefore fullers dorse them . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.34) But I / saith Galen / presse out the iuice of the huskes as I do out of the Mulberies & bambleberes {COM:sic} / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.35) and set it wyth sodden hony / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.36) and vse it in the steade of a mouth healinge medicine / as I vse the foresaide juice of mulberes and brambleberes . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.37) The kirnell of the nut / when it is wythered / is of subtill partes and a dryinge medicine wyth out any bytynge . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.38) Out of Pliny . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,71.40) The Gretians haue named the walnut of that / that it bringeth the heade ache / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.43) for the strengthe of the trees and the leaues perche into the brayne / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.44) if the nuttes be taken a fore hand / they breake and quenche the myght of poyson . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.45) They are good to be laide to the squynsie wyth rue & oyle . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.46) Cneius Pompeius when he had ouercomed the myghty king Mythrydites / he founde in his most secret treserhouse in a lytle boke by it selffe wrytte~ wyth his owne ha~de $this {TEXT:wyth_this} preseruatiue / the co~position wherof is this : (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.47) Take two drye Walnuttes and ij. figges and xx. leaues of rue / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.48) breake them together (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.49) and put a corne of salt tho them / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.50) and if yow eate this medicine fastinge / ther shall no poyson hurt yow that daye : (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.51) the kirnels of the nuttes if they be chowed of a man fastinge / is {COM:sic} a present remedy if they be layde vnto the bytinges of a mad dogge . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.52) Som vse to make succat wyth hony or sugar of the yonge nuttes / whiche are palled {COM:pulled} of the tree about midsomer . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.53) Tragus wryteth that the water whiche is destilled out of the grene nuttes gathered at mitsomer {COM:sic} / is good for the inflammation of the pappes / impostumes / and for places out of ioynt / (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.54) the oyle that is pressed out of the walnuttes / saieth Tragus / is good for the purposes aboue rehersed . (TURNERHERB-E1-P2,72.55)