Poculent

Some of these herbs, which are not esculent, are notwithstanding poculent; as hops and broom.

[…] the minute attention which the first physicians paid to the esculents and poculents of their patients […]

The use of unguents acts as raiment against heat and cold by preventing profuse perspiration and evaporation; it is the more necessary in a land where extreme lassitude and thirst necessitate a great consumption of poculents.

The fresh produce, moreover, has few charms as a poculent amongst barbarous and milk-drinking races: the Arabs and the Portuguese in Africa avoid it after the sun is high, believing it to increase bile, and eventually to cause fever […]