Secrets of the Secrets of Ramon Llull and Hermes the Philosophers

restores it, but the aforementioned things do not suit warm complexions, because they burn the blood and ignite the humors, especially in burnt complexions, and in those who have the vice of heating. But for these, the following are suitable:

if a powder is made of these and used in foods, for it consumes putrid and indigestible phlegm, and also comforts all members. And when the heart is offended by warm complexions and the weakness of the stomach supervenes: it also avails in this case, Triphera pharaceïca a compound medicinal confection. Nevertheless, some have said that grayness comes not only from putrefied phlegm, but from putrefied bile, because every putrefaction defects the natural heat, and when heat is weakened, food is corrupted in the member, and then wrinkling and old age happen to the member, as we see in the scabby, whose