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)