Saffron Pills.
Take Extract of Saffron 16 grains; Flower of Benjamin 24 grains; Spanish Juice of Liquorice 2 scruples and half; Oil of Aniseed 2 drops, make with Elixir of Propriety 12 Pills.
The Virtue of these is carried (by the Vehicle of the Blood) into the Lungs themslves, and there, partly by tempering the Acrimony of the Lympha, and hindering its Trans Transudation, partly by attenuating grofs, and removing stagnant Phlegm, and partly also by irritating the Membranes of the Bronchia, and invigorating their Tone, they potently succour the Lungs, when stuffed up and oppressed.
Take a Pill three times a day, and sup up after it some appropriate Draught.
Thomas Fuller
Pharmacopeia Extemporanea 1710