Pepper is very hot and dry, and has just a little moisture in itself, and excessive consumption is harmful to a man, and gives him pleurisy, and weakens the humors in him, and makes them bad. If a person has a diseased spleen, and has an aversion to food, so that it is not pleasing for him to eat, should he eat a little pepper at some meal with bread, he will both have it better in his spleen and will place aside his aversion to eating.

original latin

Cyminum temperati caloris est et siccum; homini qui danphet bonum et utile et sanum est ad comedendum, quocunque modo comedatur; sed illum laedit qui in corde dolet, si comederit quia cor perfecte non calefacit, quod semper calidum esse debet. Sano autem bonum est ad comedendum, quia bonum ingenium ei parat et temperiem ei infert, qui nimis calidus est; sed unumquemque laedit, qui infirmus est si comederit, quia pestem in eo excitat, praeter illum qui in pulmone dolet.

Homo qui coctum vel assum caseum comedere vult, ne inde doleat, ciminum superponat, et sic comedat. Qui vero  nauseam patitur, ciminum accipiat, et ad ejus tertiam partem piper et bibinellam, velut quartam partem cimini, et haec pulverizet et puram farinam similae accipiat, et pulverem istum farinae huic immittat; et sic cum vitello ovi et modica aqua tortellos, aut in calido fornace, aut sub calidis cineribus faciat, et tortellos istos comedat. Sed et praedictum pulverem super panem positum manducet, et in visceribus calidos et frigidos humores, qui nauseam homini inferunt, compescunt.