Chap. 58.] A^mi. 2G3 



itself, it is good for (lefluxions of the eyes. Combined with 

 honey, it is used also for swellings of the eyes. With children 

 of tender age, it is sufficient to apply it to the abdomen. In 

 cases of jaundice, it is administered in white wine, immediately 

 after taking the bath. 



(15.) The cummin of ^thiopia,^^ more particularly, is given 

 in yinegar and water, or else as an electuary with honey. It 

 is thought, too, that the cummin of Africa has the peculiar 

 property of arresting incontinence of urine. The cultivated 

 plant is given, parched and beaten up in vinegar, for affections 

 of the liver, as also for vertigo. Beaten up in sweet wine, it 

 is taken in cases, also, where the urine is too acrid ; and for 

 affections of the uterus, it is administered in wine, the leaves 

 of it being employed topically as well, in layers of wool. 

 Parched and beaten up with honej^ it is used as an application 

 for swellings of the testes, or else with rose oil and wax. 



For all tlie purposes above-mentioned, wild cummin ®^ is more 

 efficacious than cultivated ; as also, in combination with oil, 

 for the stings of serpents, scorpions, and scolopendrse. A pinch 

 of it with three fingers, taken in wine, has the effect of arrest- 

 ing vomiting and nausea ; it is used, too, both as a drink and 

 a liniment tor the colic, or else it is applied hot, in dossils of 

 lint," to the part affected, bandages being employed to keep it 

 in its place. Taken in wine, it dispels hysterical affections, 

 the proportions being three drachmae of cummin to three cyathi 

 of wine. It is used as an injection, too, for the ears, when 

 affected with tingling and singing, being mixed for the purpose 

 with veal suet or honey. For contusions, it is applied as a 

 liniment, with honey, raisins, and vinegai', and for dark freckles 

 on the skin with vinegar. 



CHAP. 58. AMill : TEN KEMEDIKS. 



There is another plant, which bears a very strong resem- 



5^ There Avould be but little difference, Fee observes, between this and 

 the cummin of otlier countries, as it is a plant in which little change is 

 effected by cultivation. Diuscorides, B. iii. c. 79, says that the cummin 

 of .Ethiopia (by Hippocrates called "royal cummin") has a sweeter 

 smell than the other kinds. 



^ 3s Yee is inclined to identify wild cummin, from the description of it 

 riven by Dioscorides, with the Delphinium consolida of Linnaeus ; but at 

 the same time, he savs, it is impossible to speak positively on the subject. 



9' " Penicillis." 



