Bilis Avellanam sequitur; sed roborat alvum Ventris, & a fumis liberat assa caput.
_Filberds breed Chollar, Th' Belly Fortifie, Benzoin the Head frees from Fumosity._
And therefore they are proper for such as are troubled with ventuosities, and _Hypochondriacall_ vapours, which offend the brain, and there cause such troublesome dreames, and sad imaginations.
Those who mixe _Maiz_ or _Paniso_ in the _Chocolate_ doe very ill; because those graines doe beget a very melancholly humour: as the same Author expresseth in these Verses.
Crassa melancholicum præstant tibi Panica succum Siccant, si penas membra, gelantque foris.
_Grosse Eares of Corne have Cholorique juice (no doubt) Which dries, if taken inward; cooles without._
It is also apparantly windy; and those which mixe it in this _Confection_, doe it onely for their profit, by encreasing the quantity of the _Chocolate_; because every _Fanega_ or measure of [F] _Grani_ containing about a Bushell and a halfe, is sold for eight shillings, and they sell this _Confection_ for foure shillings a pound, which is the ordinary price of the _Chocolate_.
The _Cinamon_ is hot and dry in the third degree; it provokes Urine, and helps the Kidneys and Reynes of those who are troubled with cold diseases; and it is good for the eyes; and in effect, it is cordiall; as appeares by the Author of these Verses.
Commoda & urinæ Cinnamomum, & renibus Lumina clarificat, dira venena fugat. (affert:
_Cinnamon helps the Reines and Urine well, It cleares the Eyes, and Poison doth expell._
The _Achiote_ hath a piercing attenuating quality, as appeareth by the common practice of the Physitians in the _Indies_, experienced daily in the effects of it, who doe give it to their Patients, to cut, and attenuate the grosse humours, which doe cause shortnesse of breath, and stopping of urine; and so it may be used for any kind of Opilations; for we give it for the stoppings, which are in the breast, or in the Region of the belly, or any other part of the Body.
And concerning the long red Peper, there are foure sorts of it. One is called _Chilchotes_: the other very little, which they call _Chilterpin_; and these two kinds, are very quicke and biting. The other two are called _Tonalchiles_, and these are moderately hot; for they are eaten with bread, as they eate other fruits, & they are of a yellow colour; and they grow onely about the Townes, which are in, and adjoyning to the Lake of _Mexico_. The other Pepper is called _Chilpaclagua_, which hath a broad huske, and this is not so biting as the first; nor so gentle as the last, and is that, which is usually put into the _Chocolate_.