[English translation]


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If its leaves are boiled in water and the head is washed with it, you will cure a cough. If you make a small barrel of tamarind wood and put wine in it and use the wine continually, you will have no fear of abcesses or other illness on your body.

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If you have an unusual discharge from the intestine, take the leaves and boil them with very strong vinegar. Then put them on a linen cloth and put it on the body and soon it will be cured.

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If the legs are hurting from swelling, boil its leaves in water and when they are well-cooked, put them on the legs and bind them with linen cloth and soon this will be gone.

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If anyone falls into foolishness or melancholy humor, take a large amount of its leaves and boil them in water from the spring. The patient bathed in this water will soon be freed.

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If you make smoke from this plant in the hole where there are serpents, they will come out at once or die inside.

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If a patient suffers from burning in the stomach or overactivity or great heat in the stomach from whatever cause and suffers intolerable thirst, boil the leaves and when they are cold the patient should take that with pomegranate wine and he will be healed.

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When a man is swollen or dropsical, take some of its flowers and make them into a pancake with wheat flour. Cook it well and have the patient eat this. Then have some good wine and put some of its flowers in that wine and seal the bottle well. The patient should drink it at meals or take a full glass on an empty stomach in the morning and also in the evening. Then he should walk before he goes to sleep. If you do this in the morning and the evening, the cure is most certain.

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Distill its leaves and flowers in glass. Two ounces of this water by weight on an empty stomach are powerful in a sterile woman to make her fit to become pregnant.

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It mitigates every distress and pain of the intestines, gives the face a good color and strengthens the stomach greatly.

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If one has lost his appetite for eating, boil its flowers in water. Dilute wine with this water and also make pancakes of it and the appetite will return.

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If, because of too great coughing, one has difficulty in drawing breath, or for other reasons, make a fire of rosemary in the oven and in that cook well-raised bread and eat it and the condition will be relieved.... 198

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Grind the flowers of tamarind and dry them. Made into powder and put on ulcers, it heals them.

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The wine of tamarind has great power, like theriac. It works against every poisonous food and poison. It is a great antagonist of poison in food or beverage.

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It is powerful against debilitating conditions and is a great aid.

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Its beverage is appropriate to use in paralysis and in those who have tremor. It helps greatly in those who have flaccid nerves.

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If you make an electuary of leaves and flowers of tamarind prepared in the way rose honey is made, this is wonderful in all the above conditions.

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When this herb is infused in brandy it has been tested many times for these things: It cures salt phlegm, scabies, ulcer and fistula which are incurable and cannot be healed. If this herb is put in brandy with its flowers and you rub a paralyzed hand or limb repeatedly with this until it is rewarmed, you will cure.

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If you put some of its flowers in vessels of wine it will preserve them so they will not become vinegar or have any bad taste.

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For vomiting, take its flowers and grind them with juice of fennel and eat it and soon you will be healed.

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If tamarind is put in a chest of clothes, the tamarind will kill the moths and the clothes will be preserved from damage.

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For an abcess in the chest and pain in the stomach, drink juice of tamarind with sugar and soon you will be cured.

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[Italian transcript]

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Se le suoi foglie seran bolite in acqua et lavatene il capo, guarirai dela tosse. Et se del suo legno tu ne farai una barletta e il vino che vi meterai drento usalo continuamente e non avere paura di posteme ne di altri mali sopra il corpo tuo.
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Se tu averai fluxo di ventre fuora del ordinarie, piglierai le suoi foglie et falle bolire con fortissima aceto et poi le meterai sopra a un panno lino e metilo sul corpo e presto guarira.
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Se le gambe patisschano de infiascione, fa bolire le suoi foglie in acqua e quando sarano ben cotte mettele insu le gambe e legali con panno lino e presto sara liberato.
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Se alcuno picichera di stolto hovero humore malinconico, piglia dele sue foglie i gran quantita et fale bolire in acqua di fonte. Et il paciente si bagni in quello bagno e sera liberato.
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Se di questo ne farai fumo alla bucha dove serano serpe, subito ne ussirano overo morano dentro.
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Se per ardore di stomaco patira o movimento o grande calore overamente per qual causa si voglia, patira sete intolerabile, siano bolite le foglie e quando sarano fredde, piglia di quella con vino de melingrani e sara sanato.
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Quando l’huomo sara infiato o idropico, piglia deli suoi fiori e fa una panata con farina di grano e sia ben cotta e quella mangi . E poi abbi di bon vino optimo et in quello mettivi delli suoi fiori et copri bene il vaso dove sara quel vino. Et il paciente ne beva a pasto ma che a stomaco digiuno la matina ne piglia uno pien[o] bichiere et cosi la sera. E poi vadi spassegiando avanti che vadi a dormire. Cossi farai la matina e la sera e questa cura e certissima.
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Se serano distillate le sue foglie et li fiori al vetro et usi quella acqua a stomaco digiuno a peso de onze ij e vale a donna sterile e faria venire atta a fare figlioli.
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Mitiga ogni passione et dolori dele intestini e fa bello colore inela faccia et fortificha grandemente lo stomacho.
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Se avera perso lo apetitto di mangiare farai bolire le suoi foglie inel acqua et di questa acqua ne temperi il vino et di quelli ne farai anche frittelle et recupera lo apetitto.
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Se per tropa gran tosse alcuno sara agravato in tirare l’alito o per altra causa facci foco di rosmarino in uno forno et in quello li cuoci il pane e ben levato e mangi ne e sera liberato.
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Pesterai li fiori del tremarino e sechali e fane polvere e messa sopra il cancro co[nsolid]a grande.
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Questa e dele excelente virtu sue e de come la triacha, cioe il vino del tramarino e de contra ad ogni velenoso cibo e al veleno e grande difensione massime cosi in cibo come in bevanda.
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Vale contra alla natura debilitata e molto l’aiutto.
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La sua bevanda vale propriamenti a paraletici e a quelli che tremano e a quelli che anno li nervi relaxati et li giova grandemente.
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Se farai lattovario de foglie e fiori di tremarino condutto come si fa il mel rosato, questo e mirabile a tutte le predette cose.
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Piu volte sie experimentato questo per cosa certa che con acqua vite inela quale sara infusa ditta erba cura la flema salsa, rognia, cancro et fistola le sie siano incurabile e non si possano sanare. Se vi sara missa la ditta erba con li suoi fiori et questo ongerai le mani overo il membro paralitico frequentemente tanto che si riscaldi e guarirai.
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Se tu meterai deli suoi fiori in i vaselli del vino te lo conserva che non diventa aceto e d’ogni cativo sapore.
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Contra al vomito piglia li suoi fiori e pestali con suco de finochio e mangiane e presto sera sanato.
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Se nele casse de panni sara misso il tremarino amazerano le tarme en conservali panni da guastarsi.
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Aposteme del petto e dolore di stomaco beva suco di tramarino con zucaro e presto guarirai.