Nutmegs help digestion, stlop vomiting, discuss wind, cafe colic-pains, abate loosenesses, and are good in cold disorders of the nerves; but too free a use of them, is bad for the head. Mace is a covering of the nutmeg, and has the same virtues. Black-pepper and Long-pepper are heating,drying and opening. They strengthen the stomach, clear the spirits, render gross humours thin, and increase the motion of the blood. They are very useful for cold stomachs, and the cold temperature of the brain; but dispose the stomach and bowels to inflammation by heating the blood and humours. Cinnamon is the best of all fpices,being ftrengthening,reftorative, and good in disorders of the nerves and brain: whence it is good in loosenesses, the wind-colic, the green sickness, and palsey; but as it heats the blood and humours, it most be used with moderation. Cloves, like other spices, have a heating and drying faculty,are good in weakness of the stomach, the wind-colic, and all cold diseases, especially when they arise from a defect of motion : they are very good against cold diseases of the head, and venereal impotency. Ginger strengthens the sto mach, especially when it abounds with acid gross humours. It is good in all moist disorders, fortifies the brain, helps digestion, discusses wind, and is a provocative. This, as well as all other spices, are not agreeable to hot bilious constitutions.