WESTERN CLASSIFICATION of the MATERIA MEDICA
4h. NEPHRITIC
Medicines for the 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
Cooling Nephritic Compounds
Western Classification of the Materia Medica
s. Strengthening
t. Glutinate
u. Suppuratives
v. Expel Pus
w. Sarcotics
x. Incarnative
y. Corrosive
z. Cicatrizing
3. Tertiary Faculties
a. Sudorifics and Diaphoretics
b. Febrifuge and Antipyretic
c. Alexipharmic
d. Cordials and Cardiacs
e. Diuretics
f. Lithontriptic
g. Emmenagogue
h. Lactagogue
i. Aphrodisiacs
j. Increase Semen
