Among other ailments, he claimed, it would help cure headache, dropsy, scurvy, sleepiness, loss of memory, looseness of the guts, heavy dreams, and collick proceeding from the wind. Garraway also assured his readers that "if you are of corpulent body it ensures a good appetite, and if you have had a surfeit it is just the thing to give you a gentle vomit."
它可醫治頭疼、倦怠、壞血、結石、失眠、健忘、腸胃失調、多夢、沉重、水腫、發燒、下痢… …」此外，他特別叮嚀讀者：「如果您屬於豐滿體型，茶可確保您的食慾；如果您飲食過量，它剛好是輕微適當的催嘔劑。」