4h. NEPHRITIC
4H. Nephritic
These are medicines appropriated to the Bladder and Kidneys.
Aphorisms on Nephritics, collected by Culpeper, (Composita, 1656):
- That the watery humor may be separated from the Blood, nature has added the Reins [Kidneys] to the rest of the bowels.
- Because a man should do something alse besides continually piss, the Bladder was added to contain the Urine.
- Both of these are easily corrupted by the vice of the Urine
- The Urine is stopped by Stones or Inflammations, or gross humors, therefore Medicines appropriated to the Reins [Kidneys] and Bladder (which are called Nephritica and Cystica) are to be distinguished into three parts: 1. Some Cool. 2. Some cut gross Humors. 3. Others break the Stone.
- Those Medicines are then proper to the Reins and Bladder, which are lenitive, cut and extenuate without violent Heat.
Warming Nephritics
Warming Nephritic Compounds
Cooling Nephritics
| Barley | Cold Seeds |
| Lettuce | Psyllium seed |
| Endive | Plantain |
| Purslane | Mallows |
| Chicory | Marshmallow |
| Sorrel | Water Lily |
| Quince | White Poppy |
| Pumpkin | Sandalwood |
| Currants | Camphor |
| Lemon juice |
Cooling Nephritic Compounds
| Barley Water | Syrup of Vinegar (Oxysaccharum) |
| Syrup of Violet Comp. | Syrup of Water Lily Flowers |
| Diamargariton Frigidum | Diatragacanth Frigidum |
Western Classification
