The Nature of the drink Kauhi, OR Cough, and the Berry of which it is made, Described by an Arabian Physician.  
OXFORD, Printed by Henry Hall, in the year of our Lord, 1659.   

BUN is a plant in Yaman, which is planted in Adar, and groweth up and is gathered in Ab. It is about a cubit high, on a stalk about the thickness of ones thumb. It flowers white, leaving a berry like a small nut, but that sometimes it is broad like a bean; and when it is peeled, parteth in two. The best of it is that which is weighty and yellow; the worst, that which is black. It is hot in the first degree, dry in the second: it is usually reported to be cold and dry, but it is not so; for it is bitter, and whatsoever is bitter is hot. It may be that the scorce is hot, and the Bun itself either of equal temperature, or cold in the first degree. That which makes for its coldnsse is its stipticknesse. In sum it is by experience found to conduce to the drying of rheums, and phlegmatic coughs and distillations, and the opening of obstructions, and the provocation of urine. It is now known by the name of Kohwah. When it is dried and throughly boiled, it allays the ebullition of the blood, is good against the small pox and measles, and bloody pimples; yet causeth vertiginous headheach, and maketh lean much, occasioneth waking, and the emrod's, and assuageth lust, and sometimes breeds melancholy. He that would drink it for liveliness sake, and to discuss slothfulness, and the other properties that we have mentioned, let him use much sweet meats with it, and oil of pistaccioes, and butter. Some drink it with milk, but it is an error, and such as may bring in danger of the leprosy.  
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