The author has provided guidelines to find what planet causes disease and what planet cures it by sympathy and anti sympathy. For easy reference, the herbs have been described alphabetically. Directions have also been given for making syrups and conserves, oils and ointments, plasters and poultices and troches and pills. Not being content with herbs, the author painstakingly describes the virtues of living creatures, parts of living creatures and excrements, creatures belonging to sea and the metals, minerals and stones. In the end, the author has provided a key to Gallen's method of physic by explaining the temperature, appropriation and properties of medicines. The book should interest research scholars as well as practitioners of medicine, both allopathic and ayurvedic.
Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616-1654 in London) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Physician (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.
