The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.

Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.