Chap. 13.] THE CULTIVATED RADISH. 215 



good for promoting the menstrual discharge in females and for 

 affections 55 of the bladder ; it acts, also, as a diuretic. For 

 these purposes, a decoction of it is taken with hydromel, or else 

 one drachma of the juice of the plant. 56 The seed, parched, and 

 then beaten up, and taken in warm water, in doses of four 

 cyathi, is a good remedy for dysentery ; it will stop the pas- 

 sage of the urine, however, if linseed is not taken with it. 



The other kind of turnip is known by the name of " bunias," 57 

 and bears a considerable resemblance to the radish and the rape 

 united, the seed of it enjoying the reputation of being a remedy 

 for poisons ; hence it is tliat we find it employed in antidotes. 



CHAP. 12. THE WILD EADISH, OE AEMOEACIA I OXE KEMEDY. 



We have already said, 58 that there is also a wild radish. 59 

 The most esteemed is that of Arcadia, though it is also found 

 growing in other countries as well. It is only efficacious as a 

 diuretic, being in other respects of a heating nature. In Italy, 

 it is known also by the name of " armoracia." 



CHAP. 13. THE CULTIVATED EADISH : FORTY-THEEE EEMEDIES. 



The cultivated radish, too, in addition to what we have 

 already said 60 of it, purges the stomach, attenuates the phlegm, 

 acts as a diuretic, and detaches the bilious secretions. A de- 

 coction of the rind of radishes in wine, taken in the morning 

 in doses of three cyathi, has the effect of breaking and expel- 

 ling calculi of the bladder. A decoction, too, of this rind in 

 vinegar and water, is employed as a liniment for the stings of 

 serpents. Taken fasting in the morning with honey, radishes 

 are good 61 for a cough. Parched radish-seed, as well as 



ium bulbocastanum of Linnneus, or the Peucedanum silaus of Linnaeus, 

 and the second is the Brassica napo-brassica of Linnaeus. Dioscorides 

 says that the stalks of the bunion are quadrangular. M. Fraas thinks 

 that the bunion is the Bunium pumilum of modern Botany, and says that 

 the Bun ium bulbocastanum, usually supposed to be the bunion of Dios- 

 corides, is a stranger to Greece. 



55 These properties, Fee says, are not to be found in the Bunium bulbo- 

 castanum of modern botanists. 



56 Sillig is of opinion that there is an hiatus here in the text, and that 

 the meaning is that a drachma of the juice is taken with something else : 

 honey possibly, he suggests. 



57 The Brassica napo-brassica of Linna3iis. 58 See B. xix c. 26. 

 5D The Cochlearia Armoracia of Linnseus. 6 In B. xix. c. 26. 



61 Fee says that the medicinal properties recognized by the moderns in 



