Secrets of the Secrets of Ramon Llull and Hermes the Philosophers

suit both complexions, and consume superfluous humor, but if the powder of these spices is received:

the virtue of them is resolved in wine according to what is fitting, then this wine is kept with water in eating, indeed at its hour incorporably, and it will expel all the superfluity of the whole body and will dry all the interior members, and it will be de-obstructed with perfect de-obstruction. For de-obstruction makes the spirits run through the members, and natural heat to flourish in the body. But if the body is obstructed, natural heat cannot run through the members, but rather is weakened, and thus it cannot consume the superfluous putrefied humidity, and from that result gray hairs, and the wrinkling of the skin, and man grows old. Intend, therefore, in de-obstructing the members of the body with complete intention, with things which comfort and de-obstruct, such as those already said, namely, the liver, and kidneys, and bladder will be cleansed from all filth, and there is no medicine similar to this, because the virtue of these things resolved in wine does not fatigue the natural heat, as if they were with their substance; the earthly part hinders the subtle virtue which