Secrets of the Secrets of Ramon Llull and Hermes the Philosophers

skin grows old and is wrinkled from scabies; when it recedes, it grows young, the wrinkling recedes, and I believe this. But the thing which properly expels and consumes putrefaction from bile is prepared gold, therefore it avails for lepers from a warm cause, and wine of pomegranates, and tragacanth, as some say, and they are cold, and they do not ignite humors, and they comfort the stomach. But the property of wine of pomegranates, however it is taken, whether in syrup, or in a stew which is called romania a traditional pomegranate-based dish, or in sapa boiled grape must, has the virtue of thinning humors, and casting them out with vomiting, of extinguishing the heat of the liver, and comforting the members and the heart, and the mouth of the stomach, and it avails for the cardiacal those suffering from heart-related ailments. But the proper thing, both in a warm cure and in a cold cure, are preserved kebuli myrobalan fruits, for they comfort the stomach and dry up its superfluous humidity, and they are cold and are useful to the melancholic, and clarify the blood, nor is there any thing in this world that can stand in its place. And if one is taken every day, it consumes phlegm, and retards grayness and preserves youth, and makes him return to adolescence.

And the flesh of vipers are likewise preservers of adolescence, if their eating is made habitual, but they do not do this by way